1. Warm Up:
You are a 15 year old living during the Industrial Revolution. Cheap labor is in great demand. Like millions of other teenagers, you do not go to school. Instead you work in a factory 6 days a week, 14 hours a day. The small pay you make is needed for your family. You go to work before dawn and work until sundown. In the factory it is hot, foul, dark, and hard to see. Working the machinery is exhausting, dirty, and dangerous.
Would you attempt to change your working conditions?
Would you join a union, go to school, or run away?

2. UNIT 7: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION DAY 1
Objectives:
Asses the degree to which discoveries, innovations, and technologies have accelerated change.
Examine the causes and effects of Industrialization.
UNIT 7: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION DAY 1

4. Industrial Revolution
Beginning in the 1700s England
Increased output of machine-made goods
Transformed the way people worked

5. Begins in Britain Agricultural Revolution Enclosure Act (enclosures)
Wealthy farmers gained more land, new methods
Jethro Tull- seed drill
Crop rotation, improved on the three field system
Food production increased

6. Why England? Water power and coal to fuel new machines
Iron ore to construct machines/tools
River for inland transportation
Safe harbors for ships

7. Factors of Production Labor Natural resources Stable economy
Stable government

8. Textiles (first to undergo industrialization)
Industrialization starts here
John Kay- flying shuttle
Start of factories, first were powered by water mills
Eli Whitney- cotton gin

9. Transportation
Steam Engine
James Watt (1765)

10. Transportation Steamboat Robert Fulton, The Clermont
Used one of Watt’s engines
First trip was on the Hudson River

11. Transportation
Roads
Improved drainage
Turnpikes, had to pay tolls

12. Railroads 1804 technology had improved
George Stephenson, first railroad line with 4 locomotives, 27 miles

13. Railroads Liverpool-Manchester RR Competition over for the best train
Stephenson and son win, The Rocket

14. RR Revolutionize Life 1. cheap way to transport goods and materials
2. new jobs
3. other industries benefit
4. travel was faster

15. Review Q’s
What are the 4 factors of production?

16. Review Q’s
How did the rising population in Europe help the IR?

17. Review Q’s
What American invention aided the British textile industry?

18. Review Q’s
Was the revolution in agriculture necessary to the IR? Explain?

19. Review Q’s
How did improvements in transportation promote industrialization in Britain?