1. Bell Activity September 29, 2017
You know the routine
Who discovered the link between germs and disease?
Who created the dynamo?
Who were two of the innovators of the automobile?

2. Today’s Agenda September 29, 2017 Continue Industrial Revolution unit
Standards and Objectives
Vocabulary
Review
Cottage Industries
Factories
Work Reforms

3. Standards and Objectives
September 29, 2017
Standards and Objectives
Unit: Industrial Revolution,
Standard W.11 –Analyze the evolution of work and labor including the work of William Wilberforce and the demise of the slave trade, problems caused by harsh working conditions, and the effect of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, the union movement, and the impact of social and political reform
Objectives:
I can analyze the evolution of work and labor.
I can analyze the work of William Wilberforce and the demise of the slave trade.
I can discuss the division of labor, the union movement, and the impact of social and political reform.

4. Vocabulary September 29, 2017 For the vocabulary tab in your binder
Reform – make changes in order to improve it.
Manufacturing - making something using machines.
Union – an organized association workers formed to protect their rights
Strike – a work stoppage

5. Recap (Do Not Write) September 29, 2017
Michael Faraday harnesses electricity and creates the dynamo.
Thomas Edison invents the first usable light bulb.
Edison creates the power grid that powers New York City.
Automobile and airplane are invented.
Telegraph, telephone, radio improve communication.
Louis Pasteur creates vaccines and pasteurization to prevent sickness.
Modern hospitals are developed

6. Factory Work September 29, 2017
Factory work was divided into different tasks.
Each worker was assigned a task.
Kids were hired.
Factory owners preferred kids because they were cheaper.
Factory work is dangerous
Conditions are poor
Injuries were common because no protection on the machines.
Children lost fingers and hands.
Long workday, 12 hours.
Poor ventilation and sanitation.
By the 1830s people demanded changes to working conditions.

7. Work Reforms September 29, 2017
Government leaders did not want to regulate businesses.
British workers took matters into their own hands.
Formed the first labor unions
Wanted higher wages and improved working conditions.
Organized strikes
Parliament banned unions at first.
Parliament hearings describe abuses.
Britain passes laws:
Limiting work hours
Children had to be older than 9.
Parliament legalized unions.

8. Division of Labor September 29, 2017 Assembly line develops.
Mass production changed industry.
Factories began producing large amounts of the same item.
Craftsmanship declines
Interchangeable parts developed.
Identical machine parts.
This made production more efficient.
One person could put together products in a short time.
Assembly line develops.
Product does not stay in one place
It goes from one station to the next.
Items can be made quicker.
More of them can be made.

9. William Wilberforce September 29, 2017
Wilberforce wanted to outlaw the slave trade in Britain.
Britain was part of the trade route that brought slaves to the US.
Wilberforce tried to bring measures to abolish the slave trade.
He could never get enough votes.
In 1833, Parliament finally abolished slavery.

10. Other Societal Reforms
September 29, 2017
Other Societal Reforms
Reform Act of 1832
Industrial cities get representation in Parliament
Reduced power of aristocracy.
Only men with certain amount of property could vote.
People’s Charter, 1839
Petition to allow men to vote
Vote through secret ballot
Voting Reforms,
Reforms that gave more men the right to vote.
Women’s Suffrage
Attempts to get women the right to vote failed.
Suffragists tried for 40 years
Women in Britain gain the right to vote in 1928.