MR. REED 10R GLOBAL HISTORY
UNIT III: THE INDUSRIAL REVOLUTION
Note: You will be receiving an assignment sheet similar to this one for each unit we cover in class. These assignments will be posted on the Turn It In web page. All homework is expected to be done on Turn It In. You are responsible for keeping up to date on all homework assignments – no late homework is accepted. To receive full credit, you must submit original homework – duplicated homework is not accepted.
Building Vocabulary: You will be having a vocabulary test on the following words. It is your responsibility to be able to define them. Your quiz will be unannounced. Domestic system, cottage industry, enclosure movement,
Agricultural Revolution, capital, urbanization, standardized means of production, labor union, proletariat,
bourgeoisie, communism, Karl Marx. Study!!
Homework #1 Date Due: Monday, 10/27/14
 Read pp. 501 – 504 – SUBMIT ANSWERS ON TURN IT IN
 Is there a connection between the Industrial Revolution’s beginning in Britain and its natural resources?
Explain
 What role did technology play in Britain’s industrial revolution?
 Define capital. Describe Britain’s economy at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution (include the term capital in your answer).
 Identify the political and social conditions which supported the Industrial Revolution in Britain
Homework #2 Date Due: Wednesday, 10/28/14
 Read pp. 498 – 499 SUBMIT ANSWERS ON TURN IT IN
 Why was the Industrial Revolution a turning point in history? Include in your answer five examples of daily life in 1750
 How did the Agricultural Revolution change farming practices? Include in your answer four examples. Be sure to include Charles Townshend as one of the examples
 What was the enclosure movement and why did it result in unemployment for farmers?
 Why did the Agricultural Revolution cause the Industrial Revolution?
 What were the immediate and long term effects of the Agricultural Revolution?
Homework #3 Date Due: Friday, 10/31/14
 SPECIAL HOMEWORK – THIS CAN NOT BE DROPPED!! VALUE: 20 POINTS
 Read handout: Laissez Faire and Communism SUBMIT ANSWERS ON TURN IT IN
ANSWER QUESTIONS FOR LAISSEZ FAIRE AND COMMUNISM
Questions for Laissez faire handout
 define: physiocrats. Why did physiocrats change the economic system used by the absolute monarchs?
 What is ‘laissez faire,’ who promoted it and who controls the economy under laissez faire?
 Describe the benefits of laissez faire
 Can you think of any disadvantages?
Questions for Communism handout –see next page as well
 Who is Karl Marx and Frederich Engels and what was their reaction to the industrial revolution

 Describe the relationship between the “oppressor and the oppressed”
 What are the “means of production” and why are people who own them superior?
 Who are the oppressed?
 Who are the bourgeoisie and what do they own?
 Who are the proletariats?
 Why would these two groups be in conflict with each other?
 What is the dictatorship of the proletariat?
 What does Marx mean when he says he wants to create a “classless society?
Homework #4 Date Due: Wednesday, 11/03/14
 Write a summary of the ideas of laissez faire and communism.
 Two paragraphs should address laissez faire and two paragraphs should address communism. Use your class notes and class handouts to construct your response (10 points)
 SUBMIT ANSWERS ON TURN IT IN
Homework #5 Complete review sheet Date Due: Friday, 11/7/14
IMPORTANT DATES/ASSIGNMENTS:
 TEST #4 INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION - MONDAY, NOV. 10 & WED., NOV 12
 VETERANS DAY: NOV 11 – NO SCHOOL

Laissez-faire , a French term, means 'leave to do' or 'leave alone'. Absolute monarchs controlled the economies of their empires, making all economic decisions. During the Enlightenment, “physiocrats” developed the idea of laissez faire. This theory suggests that the government should have a very limited role in the economy. As a matter of fact, no one should control the economy. Laissez faire means that the economy would control itself as citizens buy and sell goods on the market. The goods secure economic growth, high levels of unemployment and international competitiveness. Laissez faire indicates minimal government involvement. Left to their own devices, according to this argument, people will develop habits of sturdy self-reliance, but if they are supported by the government, people will rapidly sink into a mode of dependency. Laissez faire supports the ideas of capitalism, which is based on supply and demand of goods.
Adam Smith, considered the father of laissez faire thinking, discusses his ideas in his book, The Wealth of Nations.
Communism
In 1848 there appeared a short treatise entitled The Communist Manifesto written by two Germans, Karl Marx and Frederich Engles. Marx and Engels were horrified by the conditions of the cities and factories during the
Industrial Revolution. They blamed the system of industrial capitalism and described a new social system called communism.
Marx believed that all of world history was a “history of social class struggles.” According to Marx, oppressor and oppressed have “stood in constant opposition to each other throughout history.” One group of people, the oppressors, owned the means of production (natural resources, factories, machines) and thus had the power to control government and society. Indeed government itself was an instrument of the ruling class. The other group, which depended on the owners of the means of production, were the oppressed.
In the industrialized societies of Marx’s day, the class struggle continued. According to Marx, “society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other: bourgeoisie and
Proletariats” The bourgeoisie is the middle class, the ones who own the factories, the machines, the natural resources – the ones who hire factory workers. The proletariats are the ones who work in horrible conditions in the factories with little pay. Marx predicted that they struggle between the bourgeoisie and the proletariats would break into revolution one day in a violent overthrow of the bourgeoisie by the proletariats. For a while after the revolution, the proletariat would have to form a dictatorship to keep the bourgeoisie from revolting, which would be called the dictatorship of the proletariat.
However, eventually there would be no need for a dictatorship, and no need for social classes at all, because social classes themselves were formed as a result of economic differences. In the end, the world would have a society without social classes: a classless society. The government would wither away because it is no longer needed.
Utilitarianism refers to those moral theories which hold that the consequences of a particular action form the basis for any valid moral judgment about that action. Thus, a morally right action is an action that produces good consequences. In other words, the ends justify the means . A utilitarian may argue that lying is wrong because of the negative consequences produced by lying. A common criticism is that utilitarian moral systems are simply complicated ways of saying that the ends justify the means - thus, if it is possible to argue that enough good will result, then any outrageous and horrible actions would be justified. For example, a utilitarian moral system might justify the torture and murder of an innocent child if it would lead to a cure for all forms of cancer.