Societal Factors
Advancements of textile, energy, and transportation industry.
What is new inventions, advances in energy production, innovations in transportation?
Harsh working conditions of industrial cities.
What is all workers including men, women, and children endure dangerous industries and grueling labor with low pay wages?
Industrialization and women's work.
What is although women were able to work in factories and mills they faced discrimination and unequal treatment with lower wages and harsher working conditions?
Political liberalism and its contribution to the push for expanded suffrage.
What is it emphasized individual rights, represented government, and the rule of law and helped to expand the women's suffrage movement.
Transfer of knowledge and technology.
What is British entrepreneurs, engineers, and skilled workers helped continental Europe and the United State adopt British innovations like factories, mechanized production, and industrial infrastructure?
What is powering machinery, a reliable energy source, and innovations in mining?
Population growth and urbanization of the economy.
What is increased productivity and improvements of public health contributed to population increase and the search of employment lead to population growth in industrial cities.
Avocation for women's rights. One example of an advocate.
What is the industrial revolution inspired the feminist movement and women advocating for their rights and gender equality? What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Acts of 1833 and 1842 that regarded working conditions.
What is Factory Act of 1833 regulated working conditions of factory women and children limiting hours and raising health standards and the Mines Act of 1842 prohibited employment of women and children in mines because of its dangers?
Industrialization in the economy of other countries.
What is countries recognize the benefits of industrialization on their economy so they implemented industrialized policies into their government?
The technological advancements in agricultural practices.
What is crop rotation, seed drill, selective breeding, and increased productivity in agriculture contributing to urbanization and industrialization?
Harsh living conditions of migrants.
What is industrial cities became overcrowded and unsanitary with cramped living conditions leading to the spread of diseases?
One of the most prominent advocates against industrial capitalism.
What is Robert Owen was a prominent advocate against industrial capitalism which was effect of the industrial revolution?
Impact of labor movements.
What is mobilized workers, raised awareness about labor issues, and made politicians protect workers rights in their legislations?
Geopolitical competition among nations for economic and military dominance.
What is industrialized nations had advantages in military power and were better equipped to support standing armies and navies so they were able to protect their power?
Trans-atlantic slave trade and its role in supplying Europe with cheap raw materials.
What is enslaved labor increases production of cash crops, enslaved plantation fueled the growth of industries, profits from slave trade drove the economic growth?
Effects of a larger middle class.
What is professionals and skilled workers of the larger middle class played a crucial role in economic growth and to cultural and intellectual developments?
Marx theory of historical materialism.
What is history is driven by class struggle and the Industrial Revolution intensifies the conflict?
The government's response to social issues.
What is created social welfare programs with unemployment insurance and old age pensions?
Impact of the political balance of power.
What is industrialization transformed the political landscape causing nations to gain economic and military advantages leading to the decline of traditional empires and fostering national sediments and movements?
The change of the Indian ocean trade routes and its affects.
What is manufactured goods that have created opportunities for industrial production and created openings for more trading companies and new markets?
Environmental impacts of industrialization.
What is the air and water ways became contaminated with pollution on a massive scale which impacted agricultural productivity and the health of the public?
Ideas in the Communist Manifesto.
What is they outlined the principles of communism and called for the abolition of private property and argued for the creation of a classist society?
Influence of reform movements.
What is helped establish the foundations of the modern welfare state?
Global consequences.
What is transformation of global trade patterns, expansion of colonial empires, and new centers of economic and political power, but the negative effects include tension and conflicts because of competing powers for control over markets, resources, and territories?