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Industrial Revolution

General Facts

  • This revolution took place during the 18th to 19th century
  • Development in technology
  • Child labor
  • Resulted in mass production
  • Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Efq-aNBkvc

Who

  • Leland Stanford- co founder of the railroad
  • Andrew Carnegie - became a millionaire in the steel business, steel in Pittsburgh
  • Thomas Edison- created the telephone
  • John Rockefeller-he created standard oil business
  • Henry Ford- created the first car
  • Samuel Gompers- created the American Federation of labor
  • Sergei Witte- lead the industrial revolution in Russia

Resources

http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm

Industrial Revolution

When? Where?

Significance

  • The revolution first began in the Great Britain
  • This revolution was between 1760 to between 1820 and 1840
  • This revolution happened in the US, The Great Britain, Germany, and Russia
  • This revolution boasted economies and produced mass production
  • It supported imperialism and militarism and that lead to ww1
  • It also provided world development

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What?

Connetcions

  • During this revolution they had advantages in technology
  • Examples: sewing machine, light bulbs, telephones, etc
  • It also created jobs for people
  • Industrial revolution caused a lot of pollution in the air and water
  • It caused a lot of competition in the steel and oil business
  • It also cause a lot of our fossil fuel to be at a scarce amount today

Why? How?

  • People needed jobs and wanted to get things done faster
  • People began to work in factories and got paid for working
  • Things were also invented to make farming much easier
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