I. Industrial Revolution is a series of mini-revolutions

Agricultural Revolution

Manufacturing Revolution

Coal and Iron Revolutions

Trade Revolution

Scientific Revolution

Transportation Revolution

Communication Revolution

Entrepreneurial Revolution

II. Effect on life during the Industrial Revolution

Working class

Middle class

III. Reaction to Industrialization

Luddites

Unions

Impact of the French Revolution

TIMELINE

1630    First cotton cloth produced in England

1764    James Hargreave’s spinning jenny

1769    James Watt’s first steam engine

1776    Publication of Wealth of Nations

1779    First iron bridge

1798    Eli Whitney invents cotton gin

1804    First steam locomotive

Industrial era living conditions

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