1. Industrial Revolution
From Farms to Factories

2. Our Objective: Before you leave here today
 You will e able to explain why England was the
first country to industrialize
 Make the transition from farms to factories

3. Lets make your brains EXPLODE!
 http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/industrialrevolution/

4. Here is England
 Find England on your map
 Draw a factory over it
 Include the #1

5. So why was England the first country
 To make the transition from farms to factories?

6. Reason 1
 Abundant food
 Agriculture improved
 People are healthier

7. Reason 2
 Better food means that people are healthier
 So the population increased
 Enclosure movement
 Nobles start fencing off the land and kicking
peasants off the land
 Where do the peasants go?

8. Exactly Right!
 They move to the cities
 Abundant labor force
 Can work in factories

9. Reason 4
 Freedom!
 Government did not interfere with Economy
 Inventers, Entrepreneurs and Capitalists
 Invest money
 New ideas

10. Reason 3
 England had plenty of Natural Resources
 Things that come from the earth (raw
materials)
 Many Rivers
 Lots of Coal
 Lots of Iron

11. Reason 5
 Plenty of ready markets
 What is a market?

12. People who will buy you products!
 England’s population increased
 British ships could sail all over the world
 Deliver the products to sell them
 Lots of people willing to buy them

13. Let’s Play a Game!
 Industrialization game
 Or lets analyze a song about the Industrial Revolution
 http://flocabulary.com/industrial-revolution/

14. Inventions and Social Change
Ca content standard 10.3.2

15. Our Objective
 Before you leave today you will be able to
explain how inventions changed society.
 Economy
 Culture

16. Society
 How people interact

17. Economy

18. Culture
 Unifiers
 They way we identify our selves
 Comonalities
 Music
 Food
 Language
 Religion

19.  The industrial Revolution was not only in
England.
 United States
 France
 Germany
 Japan

20. Why was England able to industrialize first?

21. Freedom!
 Inventers to invent
 Entrepreneurs
 businesses
 Capitalists to invest

22. Inventions
 The foundation of the industrial revolution
 Would not have been possible without
machinery

23. James Watt
 Improved the steam engine
 Provided an efficient source of power

24. What kind of change?
 How?

25. Eli Whitney
 Invented the Cotton Gin
 Reduced time
 Taking out the seeds
 Increased production
 Cotton needed in textile factories

26. What kind of change?
 How?

27. Henry Bessemer
 Bessemer process
 Quickly and cheaply made steel out of iron

28. What kind of change?
 How?

29. Louis Pasteur
 Sterilized liquids
 Pasteurization
 Increased the shelf life of liquids
 Other products

30. What kind of change?
 How?

31. Thomas Edison
 Improved the electric light
 Long lasting
 Light indoors

32. What kind of change?
 How?