Chapter 5 The industiral Revolution.txt

• -rural way of life began to dissapear
• -new ways of communication (telegrams)
• -villages grew into industrial towns and cities
• -stores offered machine-made goods
• -new ways of travelings such as trains and steamship
• -new inventions and scientific discoveries

• -invented pain killers or anesthetics
• -fist dewing machine,
• -measured speed of light
• -reduced risk of women dying during childbirth

flying shuttle for weavers

spinning jenny

water frame

Improved steam engine

• -George Stephenson: steam locomotive to pull carriages over iron trails
• -Robert fulton: steamboat used for trade and transpot over water.

• -buildings had no sewage or sanitation system. Cholera and other diseases spread rapidly.
• -workers faced a rigid schedules of 12 to 16 hours a day.
• -workers suffered accidents from machines that had no safety device
• -they lost their fingers, limbs or lives
• -Coal dust destroyed their lungs
• -textile workers breathed the air filled with lint.

Women were payed less and were obligated to work the same as any men.

children bacame slaves to the machines. Kids started to work to maintain their families. Factory owners took advantage of children's innocent life and payed less than they deserved and lacked education. Slowly, parliament passed laws to regulate child labor.

Artisans and skilled workers protested against machines and they burned and destroyed machines.

new religious movement founded by John Wesley that stressed personal sense of faith and moral ways.