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ABOARD Assessment
OBJ: What factors led to the
Time: 6:45 Minutes
Industrial Revolution
Complete ABOARD
Do advancements in
Assessment
technology improve
You may use your
people’s lives?
notes
1. Scientific Revolution
You MAY NOT use the
2. Commercial Revolution
reading
3. Putting-out system
When you finish:
Remain silent
4. Why England?
5. Technological advancements
Announcements
 Homework
Reading on
Industrial Revolution
 Happy
Birthday: Ricky Gomez
and Josie Hernandez
Big Question of the Week

Do advancements in technology
improve people’s lives?
Scientific Revolution

Scientific revolution created a, Greater
knowledge of the world, Weakened
superstition and tradition, and
Encouraged learning and the search for
better and newer ways of doing things

Most important to the process of
industrialization were the advancements
in physics made by Sir Isaac Newton and
James Watt
Commercial Revolution
 During the 16th, and 17th centuries
Europeans expanded their power
worldwide
 Colonies in the Americas and Asia
brought new trade and commerce (
business) to Europe
 Trading/Merchant guilds from before
could not meet rising demands
Putting-out System

As the demand for goods increased a
new system of production was made in
which Businesspeople delivered raw
materials to workers’ homes where they
manufactured the goods

Business owners picked up finished
goods and paid workers wages based on
number of items
Why England?
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2.
3.
4.
England became the birthplace of the
industrial revolution for 4 reasons:
Increased agricultural production,
Merchants and the upper-class had
new capital to invest
England could sell goods back to the
colonies
England had the natural resources of
coal to produce
Technological Advancements
Flying Shuttle (John Kay)
1720’s, increased efficiency of
weaving
Demand for textiles (woven
cloth) 1700’s increases
Steam powered Power Loom
(1785) invented, made
production 8x faster
“Necessity Is the Mother of
Invention”
Power Loom leads to
increased demand for cotton
Cotton gin is invented by Eli
Whitney, separates cotton
faster
Demand for Iron increases as
the demand for the power
loom increases
Technological
advancements
As more steampowered machines
were built, factories
needed more coal to
create this steam
Mining methods
improved to meet
the demand for
more coal
“Necessity Is the Mother of
Invention”
As more steampowered machines
were built, factories
needed more coal to
create this steam
Mining methods
improved to meet
the demand for
more coal
•The process of inventing never ends
•One invention inevitably leads to improvements upon it
and to more inventions
The life of Betty Harris
1.What is the job of a drawer?
 2. Why was this job especially
hard for women?
 3.Why was it hard for Harris to
have a comfortable family life?
 4.How did the advancements in
technology change people’s lives?

OBJ: What impact did Industrialization
have on the lives of Europeans?
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
Increase Transportation
Investment in
Agriculture
Growth of factory
Urbanization
Change in Lifestyle
Spread of
Industrialization
Announcements
 Homework
Reading on
Industrial Revolution Due
Tomorrow
RAFT Quick Write
Role: Journalist
 Audience: Citizens of England
 Format: 5 Sentence news article
 Theme: The Growth of Manchester

Questions to think about:
How has Manchester changed over the
last 100 years? Why would
Manchester be a great place to move
to?
Increase in Transportation
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, people used ships with
sails and horse-drawn carriages
Increased
production
Search for
more markets
and raw
materials
Better and
faster means
of
transportation
Steamboat (1807) – Increased speed of water
transportation
Locomotive (1825) Fast land transportation of people and
goods
Investment in Agriculture

As demand for cotton increased and
people moved to cities, governments
invested in agricultural research by
establishing agricultural schools,
societies, and experimental stations

Led to new innovation in pesticides,
breeding, food preservation, and
farming techniques, allowed fewer
farms to produce more food
Growth of Factories

By 1800, steam engines were replacing
water wheels as sources of power for
factories, forcing owners to relocate
near raw materials

Cities grew around the factories built
near central England’s coal and iron
mines
 Manchester, Liverpool
Urbanization
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With the growth of factories in cities
and the decline of agriculture people
began searching for work within cities

Cities such as London and Manchester
soon became over populated with
working class citizens

Urban populations increased by over
400%
Change in lifestyle

Pre-Industrial Revolution: Owned their
own farms where they produced their
own food and clothing. This made
Unemployment rare

Within the urban city, workers relied
entirely upon their employers for wages
with which they bought everything they
needed
The Spread of the Industrial
Revolution
Mid-1800s – Great Britain, the world
attempted to ban the export of its
methods and technologies, but this soon
failed
 1812 – United States industrialized after
the War of 1812
 1825 – France Industrialized following
Napoleonic Wars
 1870 – Germany industrialized rapidly
 By 1890 – Russia and Japan began to
industrialize
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The Debate: Issues and
Responses

Prompt: Identify the issues
raised by the growth of
Manchester and analyze the
various responses to those
issues over the course of the
19th century
Source Analysis

Prompt: Identify the issues raised by the growth of
Manchester and analyze the various responses to those
issues over the course of the 19th century