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Timeline of the Industrial Revolution
1740 1760 1780 1800 1820 1840 1860 1880 1900 1920
New tools beginAgricultural rev
James Watt’sSteam engine
1st railroad(in England)
1845- Irish PotatoFamine
1848 – Marx’sCommunist Manifesto
1859 – Darwin’s Origin of Species
Car inventedIn Germany
1st airplane
DOMESTIC SYSTEM FACTORY SYSTEM
Making products: At home By hand One person/family
Making products: In a factory By machine Many people
Industrial Revolution: A change in the way things were made
What a Nation needs to have Industry
Capital ($ for investment)Labor force (workers)Transportation system (materials and
products)Raw materials (especially coal, iron, &
cotton)Market (a place to sell products)
Working Conditions
Child labor: Factory owners used kids as young as 5 because you could pay them less
Long hours: 12-16 hour daysDangerous conditions: unsafe machinery & buildingspassageshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPmVBxs
Ta8&feature=related
Changing Social Roles
Women: either run the household or
work long hours for less pay than men
Family: Working class families
suffered; middle class families improved
Children: Unhealthy, worked in unsafe
conditions
Liberals Conservatives
Want changesNew republicsLaissez-faire
economy
Want stability (no change)
Old monarchiesNobles control
economy
Reactions to the Industrial Revolution
Thomas Malthus
Believed population was increasing faster than food supply
Said solution was to let the poor starve
Charles Darwin
Wrote The Origin of Species
Theory of EvolutionNatural selection –
survival of the fittest
Social Darwinism
Said the rich and powerful are the “fittest”
Used to justify racism
Used as an excuse to take advantage of working class, weak nations
Utopian Socialism Marxist Socialism
Everyone shares everything
Goal Peace and equality
Started by Karl Marx
Workers of the world unite and violently overthrow the middle class (bourgeoisie)
Goal end capitalism, create classless society
Socialism – economic system in which society owns business & everyone shares work and profits
RomanticismRealism
Late 1700sEmotion, not
reasonEx. Beautiful
landscapes
Early 1800sShow the
world as it really was
Ex. Dicken’s novels
The Arts
Impressionism
Late 1800sAnti-realismEx. Monet
Sadler Report Education
Report on Child labor
Led to child labor laws
Public schools created
Get kids out of factories
Attempts to Reform Society
Labor Legislation
Safety conditions: less hours, safer machines
Women and children: less hours, safer work
Trade Unions: created to protect workers, used strikes and protests
Political Causes
Population growth (cities too crowded)Poor living conditionsPoor working situations
Social Causes
People were leaving monarchies and wanting democracy
Improved TransportationExpanded the search for raw materialsSearch out new markets
EXAMPLES of migration
Europeans go to America for opportunity
Irish come to America due to potato famine
Essential Questions
1. How did the Agricultural Revolution support the Industrial Revolution?
More food able to feed cities; less work on farms2. How can the Industrial Revolution be considered
the major turning point in history?Huge population increase; transportation inventions; new reforms3. How did the abuses of the Industrial Revolution
lead to the competing ideologies for social change?
Ideologies compete to solve social problemsLiberal vs. Conservative Capitalism vs. Socialism
Essential Questions4. Compare and Contrast the ideas of Adam Smith and Karl Marx?
Capitalism – Adam Smith
Socialism – Karl Marx
Definition
Supporting Theory
Role of the Government
Who owns the means of production (factories & farms)
Economy without government regulation
Economy where decisionsare made by the gov’t
Laissez-FaireThe Wealth of Nations
SocialismCommunist Manifesto
Gov’t does NOT Interfere in business
Gov’t makes ALL Economic decisions
Private ownership(by ppl)
Gov’t owns allbusinesses