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Before the Industrial Revolution, most Europeans lived in rural villages and made their living from the land. The development of machinery and the factory system caused manufacturing to sweep across Europe, spreading to the United States and the rest of the world. The Industrial Revolution brought with it great social, economic, and cultural change.
 
In this lesson, we will look at the origins of the Industrial Revolution and the improvements and problems that grew out of it.
 

Objectives

When you have completed this lesson, you will be able to

• discuss why England was the first country to industrialize,

• describe how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change,

• describe the growth of population, rural to urban migration, and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution,

• show the evolution of work and labor, including the end of the slave trade, the effects of immigration, mining, and manufacturing, the division of labor, and the union movement,

• describe the connections between natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy,

• discuss the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, and

• describe the emergence of Romanticism, social criticism, and the move away from Classicism in Europe.

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