2. What is the Industrial
Revolution?
❖ It was a time from the 18th to the 19th century where major
agricultural, manufacturing, mining, transportation, and
technology changes occurred.
❖ It began in Britain, but spread throughout Western Europe,
North America and Japan.
3. What is urbanization?
❖ It’s the condition of being
urbanized.
❖ A cottage industry a primarily
manufacturing industry which
includes many producers that
work from their homes.
❖ There was a migration of people
from rural to urban during the
Industrial Revolution.
❖ People migrated from rural to
urban because life in the city
was easier, and all the jobs
started popping up in the citites.
4. Agricultural Revolution
❖ The agricultural revolution was a time when there was an
increase in agricultural productivity, which in turn led to
population growth, which meant more workers, and
ultimately helped drive the industrial revolution.
❖ Crop Rotation: When farmers rotate their crops so that the
plants don’t use up all of the nutrients from the soil.
5. Textiles
❖ Textiles were the first
commodity to boom in
the industrial revolution.
❖ Textiles are things such as
cloth or woven fabric.
❖ Steam engines, the loom,
and the cotton gin helped
the textile industry
boomed.
❖ Eli Whitney invented the
cotton gin.
6. Steam Engine
❖ Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine.
❖ Invented in 1775
❖ It was the first engine ever created, was faster than humans,
and could make almost anything.
❖ James Watt is credited with improving it.
7. Bessemer Process
❖ The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-
production of steel.
❖ Henry Bessemer came up with it.
❖ It revolutionized steel manufacture by decreasing its cost
and increasing its productivity.
8. Pasteurization
❖ Louis Pasteur invented pasteurization and
discovered the germ theory of disease.
❖ Pasteurizations kills many bacteria that
cause food to spoil or go bad, and it
sterilizes foods and milk, making them last
longer.
9. Thomas Edison
❖ Invented the light bulb, the phonograph, and microphone.
❖ Over a thousand.
“Anything that wont sell, I
don’t want to invent. Its sale
is proof of utility, and utility
is success.”
10. Romanticism
❖ Was an artistic, intellectual, and literal movement.
❖ it gained strength in reaction to the industrial revolution.
❖ Some authors from the Romantic period include Emily
Dickinson and Washington Irving.
