IndustrializationUrbanization

&Immigration

Industrial Revolution

Industrial Revolution: During the 1800’s farmers and city workers stopped working by hand and began to use machines.

Before After

Industrial Revolution

Assembly Line: Each person in a factory has a small job they do over and over and as each person does their job the product is completed.

Specialization of Labor: Each person in a factory has a specialized job they do over and over.

Industrial RevolutionMass Produce: When one thing in a factory can be made many times cheaply.

Industrial RevolutionThe steam engine allowed factories to run all day and night, boats to move and large farm equipment to get more jobs done. In the US, the most important use of the steam engine was for trains.

Industrial RevolutionIn 1869, the USA finished the “Trans-Continental Railroad” a rail line that went from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Industrial RevolutionSince things could be made so easily and for so cheaply, more resources were needed- mainly coal. “Industrialized” countries like Great Britain in Europe and the USA began to expand their economies in search of people to buy their products.

Sadly, because of the US Civil War, the US had shown that Industrialization could be used for weapons and war. The world changed greatly, because the only thing that mattered for countries now, was how industrialized they were. Industrialized countries in the 1800’s colonized much of the rest of the world.

Industrial Revolution

UrbanizationUrbanization: When people during the IR began to move off of farms and into cities.

UrbanizationSince new machines meant that farmers could grow more crops with less people- not as many people were needed to work the land – so they moved to cities to find jobs in factories in the late 1800’s and cities grew.

Urbanization

Urbanization Problems

•Cities grew too fast and they became overcrowded- people had to live in tenements .

•Bosses did not take care of their workers- many died or were hurt at their jobs.

•Children worked dangerous jobs.

•Cities were dirty and diseases spread.

Urbanization

Tenement House

Urbanization

Widget FactoryGoal- To make the most widgets of the highest quality widgets despite the harsh working conditions.

•Decide who the “Foreman” is.•Specialize your labor.•Create a mass production assembly line area for the best results.