Bellringer

Page 65: Write down the answers to the following questions on a paper titled “Bellringer 1/4/12”:

1. Why did the Industrial Revolution begin in England?

2. What was the Industrial Revolution?3. What was the Agricultural Revolution?4. What were cottage industries?

• BJOTD: Did you hear about the plumber who worked on top of a skyscraper?

Objectives

• SWBAT: use primary source documents to investigate the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution

The Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution

• Working Conditions and Wages

• Positive

• Negative

Additional Notes

• Labor Unions: groups that worked together to help improve conditions for workers

• Unions would organize strikes to demand changes

• Collective bargaining: workers and management worked together to find a compromise

Child Labor

• Positive

• Negative

Additional Notes

• Reforms were passed in the mid-1800s to reform child labor

• Factory Act of 1833: – 9-12 years old—less than 8 hours– 13-17 years old—less than 12 hours

• 1919: Child Labor Law and Minimum Wage Laws

Changing Role of Women

• Positive

• Negative

Additional Notes

• Although women were treated poorly, they often joined unions to fight for their rights.

• Women fought for the right to vote (suffrage) by the end of the 19th century.

Conditions in the Coal Mines

• Positive

• Negative

Urbanization: the movement from rural to urban areas

• Positive

• Negative

• Additional note: this caused the rise of pollution!

Education

• Positive

• Negative

Changing Class Structure

• Positive

• Negative

Industrial Production

• Positive

• Negative

Additional Notes

• Inventions:– Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin– James Watt and the Steam Engine– James Hargreaves and the spinning jenny– Robert Fulton and the Steam Engine

• Movement spread from GB to Europe and then the USA– Slavery was ended first in GB too, then in USA in

1865

Modern Inventions

• Positive

• Negative

Processing

• Overall, do you feel that the Industrial Revolution helped or harmed society as a whole? Defend your answer.