Industrial Revolution

1. How did the Industrial Revolution begin in Great Britain?2. How did the Industrial Revolution change the way people worked and lived?3. How did the Industrial Revolution inspire new ideas about economics and society?

Revolution in Great Britain

• Exploration and Colonialism- raw materials and markets

• Seapower- British Royal Navy

• Government Support• Private Investment• Agriculture- Food

surplus, Enclosure Movement

• Cottage to Factory System

• Steam and Coal– James Watt

Factories and Workers

• Water to Steam• Factory Towns

– Pollution– Overcrowding– Working

Conditions• Worker Unrest

– Luddites-1811– Labor Unions– Strikes

• Mass Production

New Ideas in Society• Economics• Adam Smith• Thomas Malthus• Robert Owens• Karl Marx• Effects at Home

– Women– Children

• Effects of Countries– Great Britain, France,

Germany, United States– Standard of Living

Life in the Industrial Age

How did the Industrial Revolution change life in the 1700s and

1800s?

Technology• Thomas Edison• Michael Faraday• Henry Bessemer• Robert Fulton• Wright Brothers• Samuel Morse• Alexander Graham Bell• Guglielmo Marconi

Scientific and Medical Achievements

• Charles Darwin• Marie and Pierre

Curie• Albert Einstein• Louis Pasteur• Ivan Pavlov• Sigmund Freud

Daily Life• Growth of Cities/Suburbs• William Le Baron Jenney• Booker T. Washington• Leisure Time• Romanticism

– William Wordsworth– Ludwig von Beethoven

• Realism– Charles Dickens– Leo Tolstoy– Henrik Ibsen

• Impressionism