The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution

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The Social Impact of the Industrial Revolution
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People Move to New Cities
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New Social Classes Emerge

• The Industrial Revolution created a new middle
  class, or bourgeoisie.
• Middle-class families lived in well-furnished,
  spacious homes on paved streets and had a ready
  supply of water.

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The Industrial Working Class

• Lived in peasant neighborhoods, foul-smelling
  slums.
• They packed into tiny tenements.

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Life in the Factories and Mines
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Miners Face Worse Conditions

• They worked in darkness and the coal dust
  destroyed their lungs.
• There were explosions, flooding, and collapsing
  tunnels.

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Industrialization
Benefits Challenges
- Created jobs - - - - - - Crowded Cities - - - - -
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Witness History Video

• In Old New York
• life during the Industrial Revolution.

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New Ways of ThinkingSection 4 pg 184 - 188

• Outline New Ideas about Society and Economics
• I. Laissez-faire economics
• A. Adam Smith and free enterprise
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• 2.
• II. Malthus on population
• A. Malthus holds bleak view
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• B. Ricardo shares view
• 1.
• 2.

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• III. Utilitarians for limited government
• A. Goal of society should be the
  greatest
• happiness for the greatest
  number.
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• 2.
• IV. Socialist thought emerges
• A. Focus should be on the good of society in
  
• general, not on individual
  rights.
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• 2.
• B. Socialists establish utopian communities.
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• 2.

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• V. Karl Marx explains class struggle
• A. New theory of scientific socialism is
  based on scientific study of history.
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• 2.
• VI. Marxism in the future
• A. Marxism briefly flourishes.
• 1.
• 2.
• 3.
• B. Marxism loses appeal.
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• 2.