Week 6

-The industrial revolution led to the scientific revolution

- transformed the European society

- a lot of technological advancements

- use of new energy sources like steam engines

- it was like a culture of innovation

- the greatest breakthrough was the steam engine

- it was spread from Britain to Western Europe and then to the United States, Russia, and Japan

- Why was Europe the first??

- other parts of the world had times of technological and scientific advancement

- the spread of industrial techniques was really fast

- there was contact with culturally different people

- created taxes(tariffs) to support the business people

- easy to prevent worker unions(aka strikes)

- roads and canal systems made trade easier

- rich people could do private businesses

- Scientific Revolution was different in Great Britain

- Britain had a lot of coal and iron ore

- there was a lot more output after the Industrial Revolution

- rapid development of the railroad system

- agriculture became less important and many lost their jobs

- traumatic process because there was a transformation on daily life

- the landowning aristocrats did not lose any money

- urban wealth became more important

- businessmen, bankers, and manufacturers became rich

- middle class gained the most from the industrial revolution

- some of the upper middle class became part of the aristocrats

- in the middle class was the most amount of small business owners and professionals

- middle class women were mainly house wives and stayed at home to take care of the children

- the lower middle class mainly consisted of clerks, secretaries, etc.

- 19th century, about 70% of the people in Britain were workers

- laboring class suffered the most from the industrial revolution

- they also benefited the least from the revolution

- there was also rapid urbanization

- it was very overcrowding in the cities

 - it was basically every man for himself

- factories had a very different work environment

- long hours and low wages

- everyone worked from young men to old men to young women to old women

- and then a strike happened

- there started to be better working conditions and had less hours

- still a lot of inequalities