#4 Industrial Revolution

#4 Performance Standards & Specifications:

Analyze the pattern of historical change as evidenced by the industrial revolution, to include:

a. conditions that promoted industrialization;

1. Prior to the Industrial Revolution, how much of the world’s population engaged in farming? What about today in the United States?

2. What is John Green’s definition of the Industrial Revolution?

3. What are some euro-centric reason as to why industrialization might have happened first in Europe?

4. Why was China just as primed for an Industrial Revolution as Britain and the rest of Europe was?

5. What advantages in Europe (and specifically England) have to benefit from the Industrial Revolution?

6. What arguments could be made that Indian cotton production helped spur British industrialization?

b. how scientific and technological innovations brought about change; (i.e., agricultural revolution, steam engine, mining, transportation, and textiles)

c. impact of population changes (e.g., population growth, rural-to-urban migrations, growth of industrial cities, emigration out of Europe);

d. evolution of work/business and the role of labor (e.g., the demise of slavery, division of labor, union movement, impact of immigration, child labor);

e. political and economic theories of capitalism and socialism (e.g., Adam Smith, Karl Marx, communism, Laissez-faire);

1. What is capitalism?

2. What is industrial capitalism as defined by Joyce Appleby?

3. Where did industrial capitalism originate and what advantages did this location have?

4. What role did agriculture factor into industrial capitalism?

5. How did the British achieve an increase in agricultural productivity?

6. What was perhaps the most important idea that was popularized in England during this time?

7. What are some downsides to industrial capitalism?

8. What is socialism?

9. Who is Karl Marx?

10. What are the two key ideas that underlie Marx’s theory of class struggle?

f. status and roles of women and minorities;