Chapter 9 3...2..1!

I learned a lot from this chapter, I believe this chapter was the most interesting chapter to date. I learned about how the industrial revolution revolutionized many ways of European and American life through creating Urbanization where cities grew to larger sizes due to the farmers moving in to work in the textile factories. I learned how bad it was to be a child back during the Industrial Revolution. The children had to work 16 hour shifts, doing very dangerous things like being a feeder at a textile factory where accidents where very frequent. Another thing I learned is that Karl Marx, who wrote "The communist manifesto", believed that capitalism would fall onto itself. Marx believed that a more pure form of socialism would be better, Marx described communism as complete socialism where all the production was owned by the people.
There are a few things that I found interesting. I found it interesting that slavery in the British Empire abolished slavery in 1833, 32 years before slavery was abolished in the United States. I also found it interesting how many different inventions shaped the industrial revolution and made production of goods easier, cheaper, and faster.
One question I still have is why hasn't anyone found an -ism that will stop corruption?

Capitalism!

Capitalism is an economic system in which the means of production are privately owned and operated for private profit; decisions regarding supply, demand, price and investments are made in the free market. The profit the business is sent to the owners who invest in that business, then the wages are paid to workers that are working for that business. Here in the United States of America, we have our government based on a Free-market Capitalism where the supply and demand are allowed to reach their point of equilibrium, which means that they make as much as they sell with little wasted goods. The productive enterprises are privately owned. The government is limited to enforcing property rights.

Abolition of Slavery!!

William Wilberforce, who was a highly religious man, was a member of Parliament who led the fight for abolition to end slave trade and slavery in the British Empire. Parliament passed a bill to end the slave trade in the British West Indies in 1807. After William retired from Parliament in 1825, He continued to fight to free the slaves. In 1833 Britain finally abolished slavery.
Britain's antislavery activists had mixed motives. some are morally against slavery, others viewed slavery as an economic threat, soon a new class of industry took hold where they wanted cheap labor rather than slave labor.
I am in favor of this reform. I believe in the freedom of everyone. This reform getting rid of slavery is morally right and would also boost the economy because more jobs are being paid letting more people buy more goods. I am glad that Britain made this reform, there is no room for slavery and oppression of a nations people on this earth.

Facebook

Facebook is a recent invention that has revolutionized social networking. Facebook helps you connect with your peers about day to day happenings, helps you connect with old friends, or even meet knew friends. Facebook was invented by Mark Zuckerberg, initially Facebook was to be used by college students so that they could hook up and study or plan places to hang out with each other. Facebook has changed the world, with over 500 million active users, with users spending over 700 billion minuets per month on the site. After being based from a college dorm in Harvard in 2004, it has grown to be one of the most popular websites on the internet. Facebook has created a ton of buzz, but many controlling governments believe that if they shut down Facebook and the media in they're country, they can control the people with better ease. Like in Egypt, the social networking site and the internet have been shut down due to the recent turmoil creating large protests in the nations capital, which where started through a Facebook posting encouraging the citizens to go out an protest against Mubarak.

Cotton Gin

The Cotton Gin was invented by Eli Whitney. The Cotton Gin was invented to help speed the removal of seeds from the cotton. Removing the seeds was very hard work, the seeds in cotton are very small and hard to grasp and remove. The Cotton Gin multiplied the amount of cotton that could be cleaned. In America, cotton production skyrocketed from 1.5 million ponds to 85 million pounds. This invention changed the world. Because of the cotton gin, slaves now labored on ever-larger plantations where work was more regimented and relentless. As large plantations spread into the Southwest, the price of slaves and land inhibited the growth of cities and industries. In the 1850s seven-eighths of all immigrants settled in the North, where they found 72% of the nation's manufacturing capacity.

Steam Boats.

Steam could be used to propel boats. An American inventor by the name Robert Fulton bought the steam engine from Boulton and Watt. Boulton and Watt where not the original inventors of the engine, they did modify it to make it more fuel efficient, he also found a way to make it work faster. Mathew Boulton was the entrepreneur, who paid watt a salary and encouraged him to keep making better engines. Robert Fultons steam boat named the Clermont , ferried passangers up and down the hudson river. In england the steam boat really helped with transportation of goods. With human made water ways through out England, this slashed the cost of importing goods. This made a huge impact on life during the industrialization period because you could now boat up stream, against currents and you did not have to rely on the wind to get you to where you needed to go. This also created big cities in port towns and on water ways, the boats would carry you to these ports and people would not want to leave the big cities, and the cities kept getting bigger.

Textile Industry

The Flying shuttle was a boat shaped piece of wood, which yarn was attached, this Flying shuttle doubled the amount of work a weaver could do in a day. The spinners could not keep up with the new speedy weavers because of the new Shuttle. A cash prize was introduced to inventors to produce a better, faster spinning machine. James Hargraves, a textile worker came up with the invention called the spinning jenny. the spinning jenny was named after his daughter. The spinning Jenny was able to work 8 threads at a time. When the spinning jenny was first being used, it was being used by hand by the textile workers. but later Richard Awkwright invented the water frame in 1769. The machine used water-power from rapid streams to power the spinning wheel. The spinning jenny changed the world because you could make cloths at a faster rate, increasing the supply and lowering the price, making them easier for the middle class to buy.

Chapter 9 Introduction!

Welcome to The Chapter 9: The Industrial Revolution. This blog is about The Industrial Revolution, and how it affected life then, and how it affects our lives today!
Chapter 9 is all about how it urbanized many cities. This chapter also highlights a few inventions that made working in textiles a lot easier, faster and more efficient, creating more goods, making them more affordable to the new middle class. Many machines rapidly replaced human labor, this era of factory growth is known as the Industrial Revolution. The Industrial Revolution initially began in England and spread elsewhere. The factory system changed the way people lived, and produced some new problems. The Industrial Revolution also led to some reforms in politics.
With this blog, I am expecting to get more out of this chapter, I will be able to learn more than just taking notes because I am actually reflecting and posting information that will be beneficial to my learning experience.