Transcript Dawn of the Industrial Age

Dawn of the Industrial
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Learning Points
• Growth of population, cities, and urban
migration
• Technological changes led to social
economic and cultural change
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From the beginning of civilization to 1750,
most people lived on small farms.
This changed with the Industrial
Revolution.
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1750
People make their own clothes & food.
Few ever left their home villages
Almost no one went overseas
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The “West” was the
first to industrialize:
Then:
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Britain
USA
Germany
France
Now:
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Russia
Japan
Taiwan
Israel
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Starting in 1700
the Agricultural
Revolution began
• Levees to reclaim
lands from the sea
• Fertilizer
• Crop rotation
• Seed drill
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Name 3 industrialized nations.
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What were 2 reforms of the
Agricultural Revolution?
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Rich landowners
“enclose” the land
– buy out the
peasants.
Larger fields were
worked more
efficiently
Jobless peasants
migrated to cities
to look for work.
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Britain’s population
almost doubled from
1700 to 1800
5 million  9 million
No famine because of
extra food
People eat more food
so they were
healthier.
Better hygiene,
sanitation, and
medicine
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Scottish engineer
James Watt
improves the
steam engine.
Improvements
allow it to be used
to power factories,
trains, and boats.
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Using hot-burning
coal to “smelt” iron
– to make it more
pure – resulted in
high quality, strong
iron machines that
could be used in
the new steam
engines.
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Who is famous for improving the
steam engine?
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Iron used for
bridges, trains,
buildings and
eventually, ships.
With an abundance
of coal and iron,
Britain took the
lead in world
technology.