The Industrial Revolution

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The Industrial Revolution by Mind Map: The Industrial Revolution

1. Key Events

2. Causes

3. Key Events

3.1. Expansion of the Cotton industry

3.2. New artistic ideas and changes

3.3. Innovative inventions that pulled of a better life

3.4. New socio-economic changes and reforms that created a more organized society

3.5. Changes in politics that made the goverment more stable and fair, which changed completely the economy of Europe

4. Financial Causes that supported the industrial revolution

4.1. The Cottage Industry

4.1.1. The cottage insutry was a huge step that opened to the industrial revolution, it started to make the bussiness of agriculture a more economic and open way of making money

4.2. New Banking System

4.2.1. Private banking and other types of banking started to open making people want to spend more money

4.3. Investment

4.3.1. The new world brought gold and silver which doubled the money in Europe and permitted more money to be spent on new ideas

5. Main Causes

5.1. Modern work attitudes

5.2. More Education

5.3. New products and their transportation

5.4. A larger market

5.5. A more modern and stable government

5.6. More money to invest

6. Leaders

7. Impacts

8. Impacts

8.1. Artistic impacts

8.1.1. Things like romanticism, realism and impressionism surged out of the ground with artists like Vincent Van Gogh

8.2. Social and reformal impacts

8.2.1. The industrial revolution inspired new reforms due to social conditions involving health, morals and work conditions

8.3. Political impacts

8.3.1. More people could now vote since 1832, before only about 6 percent of the male population could vote, which were the large land owners.

8.3.2. Chartism was created and it involucrated important changes like annual parliaments, and voting by ballot.

8.4. Effects on the rest of the world

8.4.1. It increased the demand on products

8.4.2. This change led nations to seek for exploration for new colonies

8.4.3. It made britain one of the greatest powers in terms of economics and agriculture.

9. Leaders ( and their inventions)

9.1. Eli Whitney

9.1.1. Cotton gin (separation of cotton seeds)

9.2. Francis C. Lewis

9.2.1. Sewing factory machines

9.3. Elias Howe

9.3.1. Sewing machine

9.4. Cyrus McCormic

9.4.1. Reaper ( Quick harvest of grain

9.5. Samuel F. B. Morse

9.5.1. Telegraph

9.6. Thomas Edison

9.6.1. Light bulb

9.7. Alexander Bell

9.7.1. Telephone

9.8. Karl Benz

9.8.1. Automobile

10. Why is this a revolution?

10.1. Life during this revolution left a permanent mark in that time, everything changed, wealth increased, classes shifted of power and nations began gaining national identities.

10.2. As every revolution it provoqued a great change in society such as politics, economics and social status. This makes it a revolution.

11. Citations

11.1. http://www.industrialrevolution.sea.ca

11.2. http://www.kidinfo.com/American_History/Industrial_Revolution.html