Beginnings
Where did the Industrial Revolution Begin
Britain
What is industrialization?
Using machines, factories, and mills to create goods and the production of mills and factories
Which pays more farm work or factory work?
Factory work
He created the Cotton Gin
Eli Whitney
send (goods or services) to another country
export
Name two changes in farming made the Revolution possible?
Enclosures and Crop Rotation
What is a factory?
What is the name for people moving to cities and leaving the countryside?
Urbanization
Invented the light bulb as we know it
Thomas Edison
bring (goods or services) into a country from abroad for sale
import
What is crop rotation
switching crops each year to avoid ruining the land
Name two improvements to transportation that allowed industrialization to work.
steam engine
steamboat
steam locomotives
road improvements
What are 3 negatives for people living in British cities during this time?
sickness
epidemics
lack of sanitary codes poor education
lack of building codes
lack of housing lack of police fire services
Invented the Steamboat
Robert Fulton
An improvement or an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something
innovation
What allowed landowners to fence their land?
Enclosure Movement or Enclosure Acts
What inventions drove industrialization?
Cotton Gin
flying shuttle
Spinning Jenny
Water frame
What were 3 positive and/or long term impacts?
Makes country richer
expands education
cheaper clothes
more tax $ so more government spending on services
better food to eat
eventually better working conditions
technological progress
Invented the telephone
Alexander Graham Bell
Process of making large quantities of a product quickly and cheaply
mass production
1700s
What did Britain have that allowed this industrial revolution?
natural resources (coal, iron rivers, harbors)
Cash (expanding economy) to spend on goods and build factories
Random..... Flag on Back Wall?
Belgium
Invented the steam engine
James Watt
What are the 5 primary requirements of industrialization?
Capital, Labor, Raw Materials, technological innovation, and markets