Regents Prep Day 13

Neolithic, Agriculture, Industrial

Revolutions & Economic
Systems

Reminders

1)
I) Neolithic Revolution
(10,000 B.C.)

A) Hunters & gatherers
Early people hunted animals
and gathered food. These
people were always on the
move (Nomads)

B) Neolithic Revolution
People collected seeds and
began farming. This began
villages forming and a surplus
(extra amounts) of food


II) The Agricultural Revolution of the 1700s


A) New inventions and ideas led to more food, which led
to larger families and people losing jobs on the farms due
to technology.

B) Examples of new ideas / technology:

1) Enclosures Combining small farms into one large
farm
2) Crop Rotation
3) Fertilizer
4) Seed Drill



III) The Industrial Revolution

A) Industry The making of goods

B) Industrial Revolution A change to making
goods by machines instead of by hand

C) Industrial Revolution began in Britain. Why?

1)New Resources Coal Fuel for machines
Iron Type of metal. Stronger than wood

2) Good Geography (Many ports for trade)

3) Britain avoided revolutions
III) The Industrial
Revolution


D) Factories used new machines to
make goods quicker and more efficient

E) James Watts Created the steam
engine (made transportation faster)

F) Robert Fulton Invented the steam-
powered ship.

G) George Stephenson Invented
steam-powered locomotive.

III) The Industrial Revolution

H) Urbanization - The movement of
people to the cities

I) Tenements Urbanization leads to
crowded filthy slums apartment buildings

J) Unsafe Working Conditions Women
taken advantage of. Child Labor. No safety
or benefits for workers

K) Response to Unsafe Working
Conditions Child Labor laws, forming
unions, setting minimum wages, Strikes



IV) New Economic
Systems (1800s)

A) Big gap forms between the
wealthy and poor. The new
MIDDLE CLASS is formed


B) Adam Smith creates Laissez
Faire - Government should NOT
interfere with business
IV) New Economic
Systems (1800s)

C) Capitalism Also known as a
Market Economy

1) Supply and demand determine
what to produce, how much to
produce, and the price of goods
2) Big gap between the classes
3) Government only interferes in
business to prevent monopolies

IV) New Economic
Systems (1800s)


D) Socialism / Communism
Created by Karl Marx

1) The benefit of the whole
outweighs the individuals
2) Government control /
ownership of everything
3) The peasants / working class
will rise together and start a
revolution (Class struggles)