1. Economic & Social Revolutions Week 2-8
Global 2
Ms. Lyons

2. Agrarian Revolution Better farming techniques!
Technology
Effect: more food for developing countries!
People live longer & have healthier babies

3. Industrial Revolution
Started in 1750 in Great Britain
Machines make more, faster
CAUSES:
Geography
Natural resources- coal (power for machines)
Island- harbors for trade
Water- power for factories
Capital from colonies
Make money to invest in factories
Technology
Machines
Population growth
More workers

4. Factory System = Mass Production
EFFECTS:
Laissez-faire
Growth of big business
Growth of middle class
URBANIZATION
Working conditions
12-16 hour days
Boring work (same thing all day)
Dangerous machines
Changing social roles
Men worked at factories & women stayed home
Poor kids worked to help families

5. Philosophies (-isms) Liberalism Conservatism Social Darwinism
Gov’t should protect people’s rights (Adam Smith)
Conservatism
Keep same rich people in charge
Social Darwinism
“Survival of the fittest”
Used for: businesses, racism, imperialism
Social reformism
John Stuart Mill – gov’t should help the poor (child labor)
Socialism
Utopian Socialism: all property & work is shared = no fighting
Marxist Socialism: NEXT…

6. Communism vs. Capitalism
Marxist Socialism
Laissez faire
Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels
Communist Manifesto (1848)
Gov’t controls prices
Bourgeoisie vs. proletariat (poor workers)
Proletariat will revolt
There will be a classless society
Adam Smith
Wealth of Nations
Prices based on supply & demand
“Free trade”

7. Education & the Arts More education
Taught to obey authority
Romanticism (opposite of Enlightenment)
Feeling NOT reason
Against industrialization
Realism
Showed harsh lives, poverty
Charles Dickens (famous author)
Impressionism (opposite of realism)
Type of painting
Paris

8. Reform Laws Sadler Report Regulated factories in Great Britain
Made child labor better
Kids under 9 years old cannot work
Kids under 18 years old = can only work low # of hours

9. Global Migration Ireland 1845 Potato crops failed
Famine (many people starved)
Came to the United States