Origins of the Industrial Revolution by Bao Chau Nguyen https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef Pro Bao's Origins en-us 2017-12-07 01:19:17 UTC 2017-12-11 07:26:51 UTC hello@padlet.com Level 1- Understanding baochaunguyen2 https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213957938 1 When and where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

The Industrial Revolution began somewhere around the 1750s in Great Britain with the advent of new technology related to the coal, iron, wool and textile production industries. 

2 List five key features of British society in the century before the Industrial Revolution began.
- Society was split into strict social classes based on wealth and birth. 
- The nobles consisted of only 1% of the population but controlled 15% of the wealth.
- Much of the roads had remained since the 1300s from the Roman Empire, so overall infrastructure wasn't the most amazing.
- Most workers were working in farms, in the agriculture industry, and very few in mines.
- Tools were powered by manpower not machinery, which was time consuming.


]]> 2017-12-07 01:20:11 UTC https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213957938 Level 2 ANALYZE baochaunguyen2 https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213959698 3 Write a paragraph explaining how life changed for British people between the mid 1700s and the late 1800s.

The Industrial Revolution brought up many positive changes for British society since the 1750s up until late 1900s. The advent of new technology in the mining, power and textiles industries created many jobs in urban areas and major cities. This caused a large number of people to move from rural communities to urban communities in order to work in mines and factories. 20% of the population used to live in major cities and 80% in major cities but that changed to 80% in urban areas and 20% in rural areas. With more manpower and work, production of commodities increase violently, increasing the standard of living for many as the economy of Britain was improving. Death rates declined drastically as food supplies increased, medicine and infrastructure improved. In this development, the middle class of people were introduced to British society. These people who earned enough to afford commodities boosted demand for products such as jewelry and cars, in turn creating more jobs. What started as just a steam engine became one that changed the social picture for Britain and the world for many years to come.


]]> 2017-12-07 01:33:11 UTC https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213959698 Level 2 Analyze baochaunguyen2 https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213962765 4 Using Source 5.4, describe the changes that took place in Britain from 1700 to 1840.

From the 1700s to 1840s Birth rates rose very slightly, while death rates plummeted. In the beginning, the death rates were lower than birth rates by a  small bit. In the 1720s the death rates rose higher than the birth rates before going down a decade later. From then onwards, there was a steep decline. There is a somewhat inverse relationship between the two things. This can just be attributed to more technology and advances in Medicine.

5 Before the Industrial Revolution, 80 per cent of people lived and worked on the land. How had this trend changed by 1850?

Industrialization had reversed this, bringing 80% of the population away from the rural areas into the urban cities. Only 20% of the population remained in the countryside. This was caused by factories and mining jobs popping up in the cities, attracting people who wanted jobs. ]]> 2017-12-07 02:00:24 UTC https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/213962765 baochaunguyen2 https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/214694388 2017-12-09 10:05:29 UTC https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/214694388 Level 3 EVALUATE AND CREATE baochaunguyen2 https://padlet.com/baochaunguyen2/2y5xu4cfguef/wish/214694589 6 Historians still argue about why Britain became such a powerhouse of the Industrial Revolution, while other European countries were slower to modernise. The Netherlands and France were two other countries that might have had an Industrial Revolution first. Conduct some Internet research to identify some of the reasons why this didn’t happen.

- Wages in Britain were very high, workers were paid a large sum of money; therefore, there was an incentive for business owners to develop technologies to cut costs. As opposed to France, whom had much lower wages by comparison.

-  There were readily available resources such as Coal and Steel in Britain, and the strength of being an empire meant that it had a lot of money to spend on development and mining.

-  Transportation in Britain were well developed, in the existence of canals where resources mined could be easily transported to major cities without requiring much effort.

- The government was stable and allowed much for free trade and the establishment of businesses in the UK. Thus leading to the first point in this list.

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