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World Civilization

World Civilization. Qtr. 2 Common Assessment. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain. Sufficient coal & iron ore reserves existed A good transportation system existed Large populations were available. Factors that drove the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Land Labor

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World Civilization

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  1. World Civilization Qtr. 2 Common Assessment

  2. The Industrial Revolution began in Great Britain • Sufficient coal & iron ore reserves existed • A good transportation system existed • Large populations were available.

  3. Factors that drove the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain • Land • Labor • capital

  4. Agricultural changes led to the Industrial Revolution • Produced more food with fewer workers

  5. The first industrialized business • Textile production

  6. Inventions • Watt-steam engine (upper right) • Pasteur – pasteurization (killing harmful microbes in milk by heating) • Eli Whitney – cotton gin (lower right) • James Hargreaves – spinning jenny • Jethro Tull – seed drill

  7. Effect of the Industrial Revolution on the environment • Level of air & Water pollution often increase • Dirty & Unsanitary conditions • Severe discipline & unsafe working conditions

  8. The cause of major changes in Europe beginning in the mid-1700s • The Industrial Revolution

  9. Feudalism, Capitalism, Socialism& Communism • Feudalism – a political, economic & social system of medieval Europe based on land worked by serfs and held by vassals who gave military & other services to overlords • Capitalism – an economic system on private ownership and on investment of move in business ventures in order to make a profit • Communism – an economic system in which all means of production are owned by the people, private property does not exist, all goods & services are shared equally.

  10. Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels • German Economic philosophers who believed that communism would eventually produce a classless society • ( a society of all workers, no bourgeoisie)

  11. Political and economic belief encouraged the following statement: “The proletarians (lower class) have nothing to lose but their chains…Workers of the world unite!” • Communism

  12. Charles Dicken’s novel Hard Times describes… • The Industrial Revolution

  13. Unions • Voluntary associations of workers seeking labor reforms

  14. Positive effects of the Industrial Revolution (long-term) • Rise in the standard of living

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