https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12 en-us 2017-01-30 10:54:34 UTC 2025-10-24 00:51:37 UTC hello@padlet.com aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150184458 Industrial Revolution
• Originated in England because of its natural resources
(e.g., coal, iron ore) and the invention and improvement of
the steam engine
• Spread to Europe and the United States
• Role of cotton textile, iron, and steel industries
• Relationship to the British Enclosure Movement
• Rise of the factory system and demise of cottage industries
• Rising economic powers that wanted to control raw
materials and markets throughout the world ]]> 2017-01-30 10:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150184458 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150185280 Technological advances that produced the Industrial
Revolution
• Spinning jenny: James Hargreaves
• Steam engine: James Watt
• Cotton gin: Eli Whitney
• Process for making steel: Henry Bessemer ]]> 2017-01-30 11:02:08 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150185280 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150186491 Advancements in science and medicine
• Development of smallpox vaccination: Edward Jenner
• Discovery of bacteria: Louis Pasteur
Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on industrialized
countries
• Population increase
• Increased standards of living for many but not all
• Improved transportation
• Urbanization
• Environmental pollution
• Increased education
• Dissatisfaction of working class with working conditions
• Growth of the middle class]]> 2017-01-30 11:09:55 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150186491 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150186881 Capitalism
• Adam Smith’s The Wealth of
Nations
• Role of market competition and
entrepreneurial abilities
• Impact on standard of living and the
growth of the middle class 
• Dissatisfaction with poor working
conditions and the unequal
distribution of wealth in society ]]> 2017-01-30 11:13:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150186881 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150187943 Socialism and communism
• Karl Marx’s The Communist
Manifesto (written with Friedrich
Engels) and Das Kapital
• Response to the injustices of
capitalism
• Importance to communists of
redistribution of wealth ]]> 2017-01-30 11:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150187943 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188205 The nature of work in the factory system
• Family-based cottage industries displaced by
the factory system
• Harsh working conditions with men
competing with women and children for
wages
• Child labor that kept costs of production low
and profits high
• Owners of mines and factories who exercised
considerable control over the lives of their
laborers ]]> 2017-01-30 11:22:19 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188205 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188303 Impact of the Industrial Revolution on slavery
• The cotton gin increased demand for slave
labor on American plantations.
• The United States and Britain outlawed the
slave trade and then slavery.]]> 2017-01-30 11:23:09 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188303 aarongreen2246 https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188390 Social effects of the Industrial Revolution
• Women and children entering the workplace
as cheap labor
• Introduction of reforms to end child labor
• Expansion of education
• Women’s increased demands for suffrage
The rise of labor unions
• Encouraged worker-organized strikes to
demand increased wages and improved
working conditions
• Lobbied for laws to improve the lives of
workers, including women and children
• Wanted workers’ rights and collective
bargaining between labor and management]]> 2017-01-30 11:23:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aarongreen2246/t3d0jbfwtc12/wish/150188390