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Where the Industrial Revolution started, and where it spread to | England, to Western Europe and the United States |
Industries of the Industrial Revolution | Cotton textile, iron, and steel |
What rose during the Industrial Revolution | the factory system and demise of cottage industries, and rising economic powers |
Technological advances that produced the Industrial Revolution | Spinning jenny, steam engine, cotton gin, process for making steel |
What came with the Industrial Revolution | Increased demand for raw materials from the Americas, Asia, and Africa |
What produced the Industrial Revolution | Advancements in technology |
What altered the lives of people living in the new industrial cities | Advancements in science and medicine |
Advancements in science and medicine | Development of smallpox vaccination (Edward Jenner), discovery of bacteria (Louis Pasteur) |
Impacts of the Industrial Revolution on industrialized societies | Population increase, increased standards of living for many but not all, improved transportation, urbanization, environmental pollution, increased education, dissatisfaction of working class with working conditions, growth of the middle class |
What fueled the Industrial Revolution | Capitalism and market competition |
What increased the standard of living | Wealth |
Parts of capitalism | Adam Smith, role of market competition and entrepreneurial abilities, impact on standard of living and the growth of the middle class |
Parts of socialism and communism | Karl Marx, response to the injustices of capitalism, importance to communists of redistribution of wealth |
The nature of work in the factory system | family-based cottage industries displaced by the factory system, harsh working conditions with men competing with women and children for wages, child labor that kept costs of production low and profits high, owners of mines and factories who exercised considerable control over the lives of their laborers |
Impact of the Industrial Revolution on slavery | The cotton gin increased demand for slave labor on American plantations, the United States and Britain outlawed slave trade and then slavery |
Social Effects of the Industrial Revolution | Women and children enter the workplace as cheap labor, introduction of reforms to end child labor, expansion of education, women's increased demands for suffrage |
The rise of labor unions | Encouraged worker-organized strikes to demand increased wages and improved working conditions, lobbied for laws to improve the lives workers including women and children, wanted workers' rights and collective bargaining between labor and management |
Forms of Imperialism | Colonies, protectorates, spheres of influence |
Imperialism in Africa and Asia | European domination, European conflicts carried to the colonies, Christian missionary efforts, spheres of influence in China, Suez Canal, East India Company's domination of Indian states, America's opening of Japan to trade |
Responses of colonized peoples | Armed conflicts, rise of nationalism |