TED Talk or Rant Project Organizer

Part A:

1)What innovations or new systems made the Agricultural Revolution possible and what were their effects?In what ways is it still present today? How is it different today? (Crossroads – Chapter 7 – pg 231-234)

Innovation or System / Effects in the 1700s / Presence Today (similarities) / Differences Today
Seed drill / The seed drill allowed farmers to cut labor cost because it did three peoples jobs at once. It plowed seeded and then re-covered the land so that the seeds would not be eaten by birds or blown away / The seed drill is the same as it was in the way that is it still does the same three things it plows the trench for the seeds, it drops the seeds into the trench and it covers the seeds back up. / The seed drill is different because now the seed drill plows many more trenches than the original 3 depending on the size of the field. Also now the they can set depth and the proper amount of space between each seed
4 crop rotation / 4 crop rotation allowed all 4 fields to be active instead of being fallow. The way it worked was that two of the crops drained the land of nutrients and the other two helped to re-fertilize the land they mainly used turnips and clovers to do so they did so because the sucked nitrogen from the air and put it back into the soil the people did not know that it did that they figured it out by trial and error. This allowed farmers to produce much more food. / People still use the 4 crop rotation system today. It is similar in the way that certain crops feed the soil and other crops drain the soil of its nutrients. / The ways that the 4 crop rotation system ii different is that people have found more plants that re-fertilize the soil giving them more of a choice as to what they can grow in their fields
Enclosure / Farmers used to have small strips of land that they had to farm. So when they started to merge the smaller fields into big fields Smaller farmers were forced to sell their farms and go look for work in the big cities. so they reclaimed the common land and they had larger plots. It allowed for bigger machinery to be invented / The enclosure system is for the most part still the same as it was. We still enclose some crops from animals. We still have one main farm owner who is like the manner lord that hires other workers to tend the other fields. / We don’t tend to close them up as much anymore except from animals or roads
Selective breeding / The farmers increased the amount of food that they could make so now they could raise sheep and cows for meat not just for wool and milk. Selective breeding also allowed them to produce animals that were less likely to get disease and were more hardy / Selective breeding is still the same in the way that they choose the stronger and bigger animals to breed / There methods are much more complex and they can now test the animals for their genetic trades
Cash crops / Farmers could now farm to make money not just to survive. This started to form how we live today. / Cash crops are the same in the way that farmers still use crops to make a living for them selves / It is different in the way that now they have much better and faster ways to grow their crops that they did back they

2)How did the Agricultural Revolution pave the way for the Industrial Revolution? (Crossroads – Chapter 7 – pg 235)

The agricultural revolution help pave the way for the industrial revolution in the that way that it provided an exponential increase in the available work force, because many small farmers could not keep up with the rich farmers so the sold their land and were forced to move to the cities in search of work. It also increased the amount of food so that increased the population that also made the available workforce even bigger.

3)How has the Agricultural Revolution impacted us today?

Benefits / Drawbacks
-It led to an increase in food production so that people could live better
- there are more people because there is more than enough food for everyone so that allows for more ideas and inventions which allows us to have a more diverse society / -Due to the exes in food that cause population to rise to the point where over population is becoming a problem
- there is more competition for space and resources
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Part B:

1)What are the major innovations or systems that were new to the Industrial Revolution and what were their effects? (Crossroads – Chapter 7 – pg 236-244) In what ways is it still present today? How is it different today?

Innovation or System / Effects / Presence Today (similarities) / Differences Today
Textile industry / The innovation in the textile industry started when the flying shuttle was invented. from then on there was a greater demand for yarn which led to even more inventions. Like the spinning jenny, spinning mule and the water frame these machines did ten or more peoples jobs which put a lot of people out of work. People were very mad at this so the tried to murder dome of the inventors some had to flee the country. / The present day similarities to these machines are that they still basically work in the same way and they still do the same job. / The differences in today’s machines are that they are electronically powered instead of powered by people. So now these machines cam make fabric or yarn without any man power needed.
Steam and coal / People started to use steam and coal to power things in that late 1770s when Samuel Crompton invented the spinning mule in 1779 that allowed for the textile industry to move out of people’s homes into factories. Using steam and coal for anything made faster and more high quality fabric, yarn or mostly anything. / People still use steam and coal today for coal power plants. It still works in the same way that the coal heats up the water to produce steam / The differences in the way that people use coal is now people use in much more complexly but now Before the coal is burned, it is pulverized to the fineness of talcum powder. Which provides a much eco-friendlier than it was back then.
Iron / The coal and iron industries were closely linked because coal is used to make iron. An English family innovated and improved the cast iron industry. Some other contributions to the industrial revolution made by this family included refining brass and building the first cast iron bridge. Better metals meant iron pots and pans, iron wheels in factories and iron and brass steam engines. / Now we still use iron even more unboundedly for example: planes, cars, lamp posts, machines, chairs, boats, pots, pans, cups, fire arms. That list can go on and on we have found thousands of new uses for iron / The iron industry is still the same for the most part accept for the uses. Now we use iron for lots more thing than we did back then. The process of finding and melting iron is also a bit more complex now a day.
Factories / During the industrial revolution there was a great amount of people willing to work in factories, due to the agricultural revolution there was a great deal of farm laborers out of work. Before this many products were made and sold out of homes. After steam power came into play a lot of those workers were not necessary anymore they only needed a few to supervise and maintain the machines. / Factories today are the same in the way that they don’t really do anything else than they did back then they still only produce things. The only thing that is different is how it is done now / Factories are different in the way that now they need even less people to run them and instead of steam power now they run on electricity
Transportation / Before the industrial revolution Britain’s transportation system was very bad. It was almost impossible to travel long distances because of the poor condition that the roads were in so they mainly used boats. Which meant that a lot of a Britain could not get many goods. One of the first things they did to improve on this was the government paid private companies to build roads and they put tolls on those roads to pay of the money they spent on it. The next thing they did was that they dug canals where boats could pass through this became so popular that by the early 19th century there was over 4000 km of canals. Eventually some inventors came up with steam powered railway engines. The first steam powered engine could only go about 4 mph but by 1828 they had a steam powered engine that could go up to 24 mph called the rocket. / There are still a few similarities in transportation today we still use canals to transport things by boat. We also still obviously use roads, and we still use trains to transport things like oil. / There are so many differences to transportation now. We have so many new ways of transporting things. Even the things that are similar have developed so much, trains can go much faster, roads now use asphalt now instead of just gravel. The new ways of transportation that we have include: planes, cars, motorcycles and many more.

2)Create a flow chart or mind map that shows how coal, steam power, iron, textile production, factories and new modes of transportation were all connected (hint: start with coal). Explain the connections.

3)How have the innovations of the Industrial Revolution impacted us today?

Benefits / Drawbacks
-textile industry: maximized the amount of goods that Britain could make
- steam and coal: allowed for many other inventions to be created
- iron: allowed to make much stronger machines
- transportation: allowed for much more quick and easy transportation of goods / -textile industry: put a lot of people out of jobs
- steam and coal: was bad for the environment because it was very polluting.
- iron: they used steam and coal for it so it was very polluting
-transportation: the canals that they made destroyed eco systems
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Part C:

1)What are the major societal changes that were new to the Industrial Revolution and what were their effects/importance? (Crossroads – Chapter 7 – pg 245-254) In what ways is it still present today? How is it different today?

Innovation or System / Effects/importance / Presence Today (similarities) / Differences Today
Laissez fair / People Throughout the industrial revolution believed that the government should just leave the economy alone. They believed that it would maximize profit which it did / Today laissez fair economics are still widely believed. The belief is still the same that the people believe that they should just leave the economy alone / Now we all it the invisible hand and it is different because now the government frequently interfere in the economy.
Workers rights / In the industrial revolution workers worked long day, the majority of people endured long hard days in unsafe conditions. Factory owner payed very low wages and tried to avoid spending money on thing to make their work place more safe. Workers in the textile industry workers long hard day starting from as early as 5a.m and even going to 9p.m. the air was often filled with fluff so fibers got into worker’s lungs and the noise of the machines were very deafening / Some similarities are that in some places like third world countries things are practically the same in the way that the workers work long hard days with very low pay. However, in basically all first world countries thing are much better now / There are so many differences today in the first world countries at least. There is now a minimum wage that you have to pay people it is not just the factory owners choice anymore on how much he wants to pay the people. They also now have regulations as to how many hours a person is allowed to work is it become very dangerous to work for too long.
Child labour / In the time that the industrial revolution was taking place free schooling did not yet exist in Britain so poor families were forced to make their children work to help provide for themselves. There was also a great demand for child workers because they were much cheaper than adults / The present day similarities are that children can still get a job part time but they have to be 14 and above. / There are many differences now there are many more regulations children have to be a certain age and since schooling is now free poor families have the option of getting their children educated
class / There were three classes in the industrial revolution just like today there was the upper class, the middle class and the lower class, the upper class separated themselves from the middle and lower class. People who tried to move up a class were called bounders. The middle class was separated in to upper middle class and lower middle class, upper middle class were doctors, lawyers, engineer’s and professors lower middle class consisted of small business owners and teachers below the university level. Lower class were people who worked in factories or laborers. / Today we still have the upper class the middle class and the lower class. People still really respect the upper class a lot / There are a few differences they are that if people switch from the lower or middle class to upper class it is not really frowned upon as much.

2)How have the societal changes of the Industrial Revolution impacted us today?

Benefits / Drawbacks
-the benefit of having bad workers right back then is that now people have learned from that and now they are much better with worker right, the same goes for the children / The draw backs were that it ruined many people’s lives back then and made them cripple
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Part D:

1)How did Britain react to the new changes of the Industrial Revolution?Pg 255-259

Reaction / Importance / Presence Today (similarities) / Differences Today
Poor law / During the industrial revolution Brittan tried to deal with poverty by introducing the poor laws, but even when the poor laws were introduced in 1834 they did not affectively do too much for poverty or unemployment. The people who were living in poverty were the responsibilities of the local authorities, but the poor laws did not help everyone. Lots of people tried to find salvation at their local workhouses, where they were at least guaranteed food and shelter but they were often taken advantage of because the people who were taking care of them only wanted to profit from them. / We still Have many systems and laws that look out for people who are living in poverty. Modern day workshops would today be like soup kitchens or homeless shelters. / We have made many improvements the too poor laws however. Now the government oversees them so the people can’t be taken advantage of so easily. We now have centers to help people find jobs instead of workshops. And the government gives people who live in poverty a certain amount of money to get by called welfare
Social reformers / In the 18th and 19th century social reformers tried to help better the life of the lower class. Most social reformers mainly focused bettering the lives of the lower class children. They tried to get children to stop working in factories and to get lower class children educated, lots of people supported the idea of free schooling which at that time was not available. With donation ragged schools were opened which provided free lessons and food to poor children. An Irish teacher who worked at one of those schools founded the Barnardo homes which sent thousands of children to work in other countries as farm helpers or servants. The idea was to give them a chance at a better life / Today there are still people who fight for better rights for children in other countries. There are also social reformers who fight for different causes now a day / Children these days have much better lives if they live in poverty because now there is free schooling so that they don’t have to work plus they can’t work till a much older age now anyway
Factory acts / In the mid to late industrial revolution people began to realize some of the negative effects of the industrial revolution so they developed some new laws called the factory acts these acts mostly benefited children here is a list of some of the factory acts.
-in 1802 it became illegal for children to work more than 12 hours’ straight in a cotton mill
-in 1819 it became illegal for children under the age of nine to be hired in the textile industry, however there were no inspectors to enforce this law, and it only applied to the textile industry.
-in 1824 worker’s associations became legal, so early forms of labour unions were formed. Over time there were many positive effects. / There are not many if any factory acts today as rules and regulations are very strict due to all the previous factory acts / The differences in that now factory’s are much more strict
Abolition of slavery / The abolition of slavery was a big thing that happened in Britain during the industrial revolution. Before the abolished slavery it is believed that they bought and sold about 3 259 440. To provide workers in American colonies. 1n 1787 an English politician name William Wilberforce started a movement against slavery and bi 1789 over 700 metal workers signed the petition. Eventually in 1807 parliament passed the slave trade act. It made it illegal to buy or sell slaves, but it did not free the existing slaves / There aren’t really any similarities or differences to slavery or the abolition of it because it is now completely abolished almost globally / There aren’t really any similarities or differences to slavery or the abolition of it because it is now completely abolished almost globally

2)How have Britain’s reactions to the Industrial Revolution impacted us today?