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Industrial Revolution
Industrialization and Global Integration (formerly Industrialization)
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History
10th Grade
02/27/2013

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A map of England during the Industrial Revolution.
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Where did the Industrial Revolution take place?
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It started in Britain and then spread throughout the rest of Europe and North America
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How long did the Industrial Revolution last?
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164 years
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When did the Industrial Revolution start?
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1750
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When did the Industrial Revolution end?
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1914
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What was the cause of the Industrial Revolution?
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It was caused by people trying to find was to increase production of food and goods.
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There was a rise of a new class of businessmen. 
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Those were the captains of industry. The men who owned the railroads and factories were just as rich, if not more rich than nobles of previous centuries.
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Who was payed less than the men?
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The women and the children
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Many factory workers endured poverty, toil, and suffering.
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They spent long hours toiling at dangerious machines. Then they would walk home through soot filled air, past wast yards, to filthy crowded apartments. 
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What was one way miners obtained coal in small places?
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Child labor
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James Watt - Inventor of the steam engine.
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Steam Engine 
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The Spinning Jenny was invented in 1764 by James Hargreaves. 
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Model of the Spinning Jenny - Used to make cotton textiles.
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The Reverberatory Furnace could produce wrought iron using mined coal
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New method of producing glass called the cylinder process - allowed the Crystal Palace to be created.
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The Thames Tunnel (opened in 1843) was the first cement underwater tunnel.
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Child labor during the Industrial Revolution.
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A young "drawer" pulling a coal tub along a mine shaft. 
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Coal miners during the Industrial Revolution.
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