Industrial Revolution Video Notes

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1. Coal, Steam, and Industrial Revolution #32 https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=zhL5DCizj5c
Causes - Reasons Why It Began Effects of Industrialization
 - Diverse Economies - The factory system
Export oriented - Rise of capitalism
New colonies acted as material - Urbanization
Unified internal market - Exploitation of working class
- Natural resources and advantages in physical geography - Oppurtunity and increase to the standard of living
large deposits of coal and iron - Rise of materialism and consumerism
canals used for transportation - Technological advancment
Strong navy and merchant marine - Rise of socialism and Marxism
Government responsive to buisiness - Transfer of wealth and power to the West
- Pollution and destruction of the enviornment

2. The Industrial Revolution Begins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l656rjVW86k

Key Concepts Questions From Video

KC - 5.1.I.A What is the Industrial Revolution? - The process of
A variety of factors contributed to the growth of making goods with machines in order to make labor more
industrial production and eventually resulted in the efficient.
Industrial Revolution, including:
• Proximity to waterways; access to rivers and canals
• Geographical distribution of coal, iron, and timber
• Urbanization
• Improved agricultural productivity
• Legal protection of private property
• Access to foreign resources Why England?
• Accumulation of capital  Proximity to water
 had access to rivers and canals which created the conditions
KC - 5.1.I.C for easy and inexpensive trade
The development of the factory system concentrated  Raw materials
production in a single location and led to an increasing  coal: the main source of power that fueled the industrial
degree of specialization of labor. revolution
 iron: created the infrastructure of the industrial revolution
 Productive Agriculture
 Crop rotation: planted different crops in the same soil at
different times of the year
 Seed drill: enabled farmers to place seeds in the ground at the
exact location and depth
 Urbanization
 Increase in population
 People moved into the cities
 Protection of property
 Enabled entrepreneurs to take risks and build businesses
without the fear that the government or another business
was going to take it away
 Foreign Resources
 Had access to all the raw materials of their colonies
 Accumulation of Capitol
 It meant that British capitalists could invest that capitol into
new entrepreneurial opportunities
 Factory System
  Factory: a place where goods for sale are manufactured
  Factories meant that goods could be mass produced
3. Industrial Revolution Spreads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZEeYV3SLMQ
Key Concepts Questions From Video

KC - 5.1.I.D What did industrialization look like in the United

As new methods of industrial production became more States? - Became the most powerful industrial force in the
common in parts of northwestern Europe, they spread world. European immigrants came to the US in the late 19th
to other parts of Europe and the United States, Russia, and early 20th century and often settled in urban centers
and Japan.

What did industrialization look like in Russia? - The

industry focused mainly on the building of railroads.
Undertook the feat of constructing the trans-Siberian railroad
which stretched from Moscow into the Pacific Ocean.
Increased trade in Eastern states like China. Also focused on
the expansion of the steel industry. By 1900 became the
fourth largest producer of steel in the world

What did industrialization look like in Japan? - Borrowed

 western industrial techniques to make themselves viable.
They did it so that it kept the western powers from destroying
their traditions and their culture.
4. Technology in the Industrial Age: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iVBSSz82Q
Key Concepts Questions From Video

KC - 5.1.I.B How are the 2 different Industrial Revolutions

The development of machines, including the steam characterized? - By the time periods and the types of
engines and the internal combustion engine, made it technology.
possible to take advantage of both existing and vast
newly discovered resources of energy stored in fossil
fuels, specifically coal and oil. The fossil fuels
revolution greatly increased the energy available to Describe the technology of the First Industrial
human societies. Revolution. - Steam Engine: revolutionized the factory had a
- Flying shuttle - Spinning jenny - big impact on transportation. Steamships: did not need wind
Waterframe - Spinning mule and as a result trade increased. Locomotives: could carry
many goods across large land masses which increased trade
KC - 5.1.IV
Railroads, steamships, and the telegraph made
exploration, development, and communication possible
in interior regions globally, which led to increased
trade and migration.

Describe the technology of the Second Industrial

Revolution. - Steel became the building block of the
industrial revolution. Gas Power: byproduct of oil. Internal
Combustion Engine: like the steam engine but was powered
by gasoline instead of steam. Telegraph: capable of sending
pulses of electricity in a combination of long and short bursts
along wires. Telephone: transmitted voices
 Consequences of these technologies in both
revolutions. – Increase in trade, migration

5. Industrialization: Government’s Role https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVNVdtZksH0

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KC - 5.2.II.A Industrialization in the Ottoman Empire: - Muhammed
The expansion of U.S. and European influence in Asia Ali brought Egypt to industrialize. He oversaw the building of
led to internal reform in Japan that supported textile factories and shipyards.
industrialization and led to the growing regional power
of Japan in the Meiji Era.

Industrialization in Meiji Japan: - Industrialization in Meiji

Japan: Industrialized enough so that they can protect their
culture

6. Economic Development in the Industrial Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?

v=nhjr5eZ05gw
 Key Concepts Questions From Video

KC - 5.1.III.A Mercantilism: - Fixed amount of wealth. Wealth was

Western European countries began abandoning measured in silver and gold. Favorable balance of trade (more
mercantilism and adopting free trade policies, partly exports than imports). Colonies exist for parent country
in response to the growing acceptance of Adam
Smith’s theories of laissez-faire capitalism and free
markets.
Explain Adam Smith’s theory: - No limit on wealth. People
can make their own economic decisions with supply and
KC - 5.1.III.B
demand Minimal government intervention
The global nature of trade and production contributed
to the proliferation of large-scale transnational
businesses that relied on new practices in banking and
finance.
- United Fruit Company Effects of these new economic ideas: - Many
- Stock markets manufactured goods were produced.
- Limited-liability corporations

Social effects of these new ideas: - Standards of living

riza, Leisure culture puts horse racing

7. Reactions to the Industrial Economy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCwpG27Qw7w

KC - 5.1.V.D Describe what life for factory workers was like before
In response to the social and economic changes changes. - Factory work was dangerous. Paid little to
brought about by industrial capitalism, some nothing. Lived in tenements
governments, organizations, and individuals promoted
various types of political, social, educational, and
urban reforms.

KC - 5.1.V.A Labor Unions and their reforms: - Labor unions: an

organized collective of workers who used their combined
In industrialized states, many workers organized
themselves, often in labor unions, to improve working voice to bargain for reform. Five-day work week. Limits on
conditions, limit hours, and gain higher wages. hours. Minimum wage laws. Franchise: right to vote
Workers’ movements and political parties emerged in
different areas, promoting alternative visions of
society.
- Social protests
- Karl Marx
- Utopian socialism page Child Labor and reforms: - Children were paid a tenth of
what adults got. Got physical deformities and deadly sickness.
Labor unions started standing up for children and in 1843 a
law was passed in the US that made it illegal for children
KC - 5.3.IV.A.ii under ten to work in coal mines
Discontent with established power structures
encouraged the development of various ideologies,
including those espoused by Karl Marx, and the ideas
of socialism and communism.
John Stuart Mill and Utilitarianism: - Thought capitalism
was selfish. Utilitarianism: every individual action should be
carried out for the happiness of the whole rather than the
happiness of the individual

Karl Marx and Communism: - Believed the free market

had led to the happiness of the bourgeoise but to the misery
of the proletariat . Thought that the workers should own the
means of production and by consequence share the wealth
among them equally. Communism: all social classes would be
 erased, and everyone would be equal

Ottoman Empire and industrialization – Mahmud oversaw

major reforms in the Ottoman society like the abolition of the
feudal system, the building of an extensive network of roads
and the establishment of a postal service

Tanzimat Reforms: - Ottoman legal system was updated to

include equality for all before the law. Rooted out the long-
standing corruption in the government. Created schools for
children

Qing and industrialization: - China was weakened by

internal rebellion and accepted help from western powers to
modernize in exchange for exclusive trading rights in different
parts of China
8. Society in the Industrial Age https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t10EoCXim1c
Key Concepts Questions From Video
KC - 5.1.VI.A How did cities change? - Tenements were built. Disease
New social classes, including the middle class and the spread quickly throughout the tenements. The white-collar
industrial working class, developed. worker class emerged from the middle class

KC - 5.1.VI.B
While women and often children in working class
families typically held wage-earning jobs to
supplement their families’ income, middle class women
who did not have the same economic demands to
satisfy were increasingly limited to roles in the
household or roles focused on child development.

KC - 5.1.VI.C
The rapid urbanization that accompanied global How did families change? - Before the industrial
capitalism at times led to a variety of challenges, revolution, most people lived on farms and the whole family
including pollution, poverty, increased crime, public worked together. During the industrial revolution, the whole
family worked but not together
health crises, housing shortages, and insufficient
infrastructure to accommodate urban growth.

How did Industrial Revolution impact environment? -

Smog: combination of smoke and fog