6.0 The Industrial Revolution

6.1 Agricultural and Industrial Revolution 6.2 Causes of Revolution 6.3.1 Economic and Social Impact on the Middle Class 6.3.2 Economic and Social Impact on the Working Class 6.4 British Reform Movement

6.1 Agricultural and Industrial Revolutions

Second Agricultural Revolution 1) Revolution of

technique - Charles “Turnip” Townsend

2) Systematized Agricultural Practices

- Enclosure Movement 3) Farming as commercial venture

Second Agricultural Revolution

From Cottage to Factory 1) Cottage Industry 2) Factories/Textile

Industry 3) Power sources

Iron

England 1740: 17,000 tons 1844: 3,000,000

6.2 Causes of the Industrial Revolution

6.3 Economic and Social Impact

6.3.1 Economic and Social Impact on the Working Class 6.3.2 Economic and Social Impact on the Middle Class

6.3.1 Economic and Social Impact – Middle Class

Middle Class Developments

1) Jobs 2) Home 3) Sense of Self

Cult of Domesticity

Home Work

6.3.2 Economic and Social Impact – Working Class

Factory Mindset

1) Control 2) Clock 3) Cog

Family Life

1) Problems 2) Opportunities

Working Class Life

1) Urbanization 2) Disease - Cholera

6.4 British Reform Movement

Welfare State Causes • Urbanization and

Migration • Large new class of

poor (Proletariat) • Breakdown of old

social structures

British Reform Laws • Reform Bill of 1832 • Factory Act of 1833 • Public Health Act of

1848