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History/ Summary
Alvin Toffler’s The Third Wave
- Industrial Revolution: Second Wave
Origins
- Great Britain, 1750- Factors: Agricultural Revolution, financial centers, mineral resources
The IR was made up of the following phases:
- the Demographic, Agricultural, Commercial, and Transport Revolutions, the rise of the Cotton and Iron Industry
Stumbling blocks
- Embargo Act of 1807o Britain (George III) vs. France (Napoleon)o America “torn between” the two powerso Pres. Thomas Jefferson issues Embargo Act – neutralityo America had more losses than the two states
- War of 1812o US vs. Britaino Pres. James Madison: violations and harassments in the Atlantico Battle of Tippecanoe: US Troops vs. Native Indians (Tecumseh) and Canadian (Sir o Isaac Brock) armies
US surrenderso Ends in Treaty of Ghent, 1814 -------> Era of Good Feelings
- Science in the IRo Alfred Nobel
- The “British Miracle”o Britain has kept the secrets for so long until…
o Samuel Slater “steals” the blueprints of the machines to Americao Notable European areas
o Belgium; Germanyo Catalonia; St. Petersburg