Migration and Empire - industrial revolution

3. LEARNING INTENTIONS
• Describe events during the Industrial Revolution
• Explain how the Industrial Revolution changed
Scotland and the UK

4. Between the 1750s and 1850s, Britain and Scotland went
through many changes. This era is commonly known as the
Industrial Revolution.

5. The Industrial Revolution
saw changes to almost
every aspect of Scottish
life.
It mostly affected the
jobs that people did and
the people who lived in
Scotland.

6. Jobs
The Industrial Revolution is
called this because it saw
major changes to industry
(how people worked).
The revolution lead to the rise
of huge factories and also
developments such as steam
trains.

7. All of this meant that people
no longer worked in small
workplaces but instead large
factories.
There were also jobs in mines,
shipyards and steel works.
Sometimes the conditions in
these places were very
dangerous.

8. The people
The population of Scotland
was greatly changed by this
revolution.
Between 1800 and 1900, the
population of Scotland
trebled (1.6 million to 4.4
million).

9. Where people lived changed
too. In 1800 most people lived
in rural areas (the
countryside).
By 1900 most people now
lived in urban areas (towns
and cities). This is because
they were attracted there by
the new jobs which were
available.

10. The people who lived here
also changed.
Many Scots left their
homeland and travelled to
other locations.
At the same time, people from
other countries arrived here
to live too.

11. Other changes
Other changes happened in
the 1800s too.
As more people moved to the
cities, this led to huge
housing overcrowding.
Eventually new houses were
built but this did not solve the
problem.

12. There were also big health
changes. Many diseases such
as typhus and cholera killed
thousands of people.
Improvements to medicine
and clean water helped
reduce this problem although
did not fix health problems
completely.