1. Bell Ringer: How does Industrialism lead to more powerful countries?
2. Lecture: Industrialism and Major Philosophers (15)
3. Impacts of Child Labor and Industrialism. (10)
4. Primary Document, Marxism (15)
5. Video Clip, America: the Story of Us
6. Primary Newspaper Articles, Industrialization (15)
7. Paper Topic Outline
HW: Focus Questions due on Friday, February 14 th .

• Bell Ringer: Major Ideas of Period 5
– Industrialism and Global Integration
• Notes: Industrialization
• Photo Activity, Industrialization
• Explanation CCoT
• CCoT Essay: Economic Systems

• Industrial Revolution- increased output of machine goods in the
18 th century (1700s)
• Natural Resources
– Coal, Water, Iron
• Political Stability
– Parliament passed laws to protect businesses, aid in expansion.
• Economic Strength
– Businessmen invested in new ventures
– Banking system, loans given to start businesses
• Land, Labor, and Wealth are all factors of production

Examples of Industrial-era inventions
• Steam Engine- James
Watt
• Spinning Jenny-
Hargreaves
• Water Frame
• Cotton Gin- Whitney
• Steam Boat- Fulton

• Not enough housing in the cities.
– Whole families stayed in one room.
• Average life expectancy
– 17 in the city, 38 in rural areas.
• Average work day- 14 hours, six days a week.
• Most dangerous conditions were coal mines.
– Collapses, accidents common, coal dust took an average of
10 years off of someone’s life

• Class Systems emerge from
Industrialization.
– New Middle Class formed by factory owners.
• Adam Smith- “Wealth of
Nations”
• Karl Marx- “Communist
Manifesto”
– Human societies have always been divided into warring classes.
– Bourgeoisie- Middle class employers.
– Proletariat- Lower class workers.

• Factory Act- You cannot hire someone under 9 years old.
• New class of industrialists wanted cheap labor, not slave labor.
• Free public education for all children proposed in the 1850s.