AGE OF REVOLUTION

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AGE OF REVOLUTION

• INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

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Opening Activity

• I will assign each student one word from the list
  of 16 important terms from the Industrial
  Revolution to define.
• When everyone is finished you will stand up and
  give the rest of the class the definition you
  wrote.
• Remember to write a definition that everyone will
  understand and that is appropriate for this topic

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Industrial Revolution

• Before we talk about the Industrial Revolution we
  must first talk about the events that led up to
  the Revolution

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Agrarian Revolution

• Definition a change in the way food was produced

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Agrarian Revolution

• Changes that occurred
• Enclosed fields
• Crop Rotation
• Better Animal Breeding
• New Machinery

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Agrarian Revolution

• Enclosed Fields
• MADE FARM WORK MORE EFFICIENT
• Replaced many small strip farms with large field

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Agrarian Revolution

• Crop Rotation
• INCREASED CROP PRODUCTION IN EACH FIELD
• Farmers would or grow a different type of crop on
  the same field
• RESTORES NUTRIENTS

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Agrarian Revolution

• Better Animal Breeding
• MORE FOOD PRODUCED PER ANIMAL
• Farmers only allowed their best animals to breed
  together

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Agrarian Revolution

• New Machinery
• MORE FOOD USING LESS WORKERS
• Dikes to protect farmland from the sea
• Use of fertilizer
• Seed drill planted seeds in rows

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Agrarian Revolution
RESULTS

• More food produced using less farm workers
• Former farm workers became available to work in
  factories
• Extra food could feed the urban populations
• Population of society grew tremendously

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• A CHANGE in the way things were made

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• Domestic System of making products
• AT HOME
• BY HAND
• ONE PERSON
• THINK YOU CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY????

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• Factory System of Making Products
• -IN A FACTORY -BY MACHINE -MANY PEOPLE

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

• What a nation needs to have industry
• Capital---MONEY
• Labor ForceWORKERS
• Transportation System---To get materials to the
  factory and the products to the market
• Raw Materials--- examples coal, iron ore, wool,
  and cotton
• Market---Place to sell your product

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
How industrialization affected society.

• Urbanization
• People moving into cities too quickly
• Overcrowding
• Unsafe living conditions

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
How Industrialization Affected Society??

• Working Conditions
• Child labor- kids could be paid less
• Long hours- 12-16 hour days
• Dangerous Conditions- unsafe machines

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
How Industrialization Affected Society??

• Changing Social Roles
• Womeneither run the household or work long hours
  for little pay
• Familylower class family life suffered
• Children---poor living conditions, child labor,
  unhealthy living

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INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
How Industrialization affected Society????

• Transportation-greatly improved
• Better Roads
• Canals and railroads were built
• Steam Engine increased speed and options
• Opened more MARKETS

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution
LIBERALISM VS CONSERVATISM

• Liberals
• --want change
• --new republics
• --Laissez-Faire Economy

Conservatives --want stability (no change) --old
monarchies --Nobles (govt) controls economy
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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Adam Smith
• Wrote THE WEALTH OF NATIONS
• Introduced Laissez-Faire
• Was he a liberal or conservative???

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• 3 Natural Laws of Economics
• Law of Self Interestpeople work for their own
  good
• Law of CompetitionCompetition forces people to
  make a better product
• Law of Supply and DemandEnough goods would be
  produced at the lowest possible price to meet
  demand

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Thomas Malthus
• Social Conservative
• Argued that population tended to increase more
  rapidly than the food supply
• Therefore without wars and epidemics to kill off
  the extra people, people were destine to be poor
  and miserable.
• poor people would continue to suffer as long as
  the population keeps rising

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Charles Darwin
• Wrote THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES-theory of Evolution
• Natural Selection-survival of the fittest

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Social Darwinism theory of Evolution is applied
  to the following
• Business justification for owners to do whatever
  they had to do
• Nationalism in war?win or be defeated
• Society excuse for racial prejudice

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Socialism economic system?society owns business
  everyone shares work and profits

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Utopian Socialism
• When people wanted to create self-supporting
  societies
• Everyone shared everything
• Goal?peaceful, equal society

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Reactions to the Industrial Revolution

• Marxist Socialism
• Begun by Karl Marx?wrote Communist Manifesto
• Workers of the world should unite and overthrow
  business owners through revolution
• Goal?end capitalism, create a socialist
  (CLASSLESS) society

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!!!!NOTICE!!!!

• Skip to the part of the notes under GLOBAL
  MIGRATIONS!!!!

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Global Migrations
SOCIAL CAUSES

• Population Growth
• Poor Living Conditions
• Poor Working Situations

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Global Migrations
POLITICAL CAUSES

• People were leaving monarchies and wanting
  democracies

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Global Migrations
IMPROVED TRANSPORTATION

• Expanded the search for raw materials
• Expanded the creation of new markets