2. By Juan and D’Andre

3.  The time period of the Industrial Revolution is 1700’s-early 1900’s.

4.  The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1700’s.

5.  between 1770 and 1850 the economy of England changed from mostly agricultural to mostly industrial.  This was the result not of one key invention but of technological progress in different fields coming together.  Its center is the development of factories (which hadn't really existed before this time), but they couldn't have developed without better transportation creating larger markets and better transportation couldn't have existed without the growth of the iron industry, which couldn't have grown without steam engines.  Society had a hard time adjusting to the new economic system.

6.  Thomas Edison: invented first light bulb.  Henry Ford: invented the first car that went 25 mph.  James Watt: Improved Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine.

7. ◦The Industrial Revolution was Machines coordinated to make goods. ◦Energy from non-animal sources. ◦Industry grew 4 times faster.

8.  Changed all aspects of society ◦Most profound effect since agriculture ◦Government change  Political and military balance  Europe as dominant power ◦Transformed social classes ◦Higher standard of living for most

9.  Factors in England ◦No civil strife ◦Government favored trade ◦Laissez faire ◦Large middle class ◦Island geography ◦Mobile population ◦Everyone lived within 20 miles of navigable river ◦Tradition of experimental science ◦Weak guilds

10.  The first industry to start the Industrial Revolution was the cloth industry.  The cloth industry made the first machine in 1764 called the Spinning Jenny in Great Britain.  It could spin to eight threads at once.  Then in 1779 the cloth industry made the Spinning Mule which spun threads using hydro or water power. 

11.  Working in factories was dirty and dangerous back in 1800.  Many workers had to work 14 hours a day.  Children who were as young as six years old worked in factories.  Children worked in factories six days a week.  They often worked more than ten hours a day.

12.  Labor unions are a group of workers that join together and solve problems.  They sometimes started strikes.  The strike in 1892 got many people injured.  A strike means that union workers stop working.

13.  How old were children when they worked in factories?  What is a strike?  What is a labor union?  When was the time period of the Industrial Revolution?  What is the year of a strike that injured many people?