3.2.1. Summary

3 Things I Found Interesting:
     - One thing that I found interesting was that the Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the modern world was all started by the Agricultural Revolution.
     - Another thing I found interesting was that Communism was seen as a good thing back then.
     - Also the fact that women started off fighting for the abolishment of slavery before their own rights.
2 Things I Learned:
     - I learned that the Industrial Revolution started in England.
     - I also learned that the telephone was invented during the Industrial Revolution.
1 Question I Still Have:
     -If Communism was seen as a good idea back then, why is it that we have troops in North Korea today because of it?

Communism

One "-ism" that existed during the Industrial Revolution and still does is the idea of Communism.  This idea was introduced by a German journalist named Karl Marx.  At first this was known was Marxism, but when Marx teamed up with Friedrich Engels to write The Communist Manifesto, Communism was born.  Communism is a form of government that is described as a complete form of socialism in which all goods and services are divided and shared equally among the country or region.  Therefore private property would not exist and all means of production such as land, mines, factories, railroads, businesses, etc would be owned by the people as a whole rather than individuals.  This form of government still exists today in China and North Korea.

Women Fight For Change

There were many reforms during the Industrial Revolution, one of those being the fight for women's rights.  Women were allowed to work in the factories and had the opportunity to earn more money, but then again they only made a third of what men made.  This obviously angered women and in order to so something about it, they formed unions in the mid-1800s.  This jump started the women's rights movement.  This reform is important to me in particularly because I, myself am a woman.  If this reform never happened and no woman ever stood up for her herself, I would not be where I am today.

The Railway, A Connection Across Time

            The railway system was introduced by an English engineer named Richard Trevithick in 1804.  By proving that he could haul ten tons of iron over about ten miles on railroad track in a steam powered locomotive, he won a bet of several thousand dollars.  This sparked the interest of other engineer and the invention was born.
            The railway system is a steam powered locomotive running on iron tracks that can run long distances and haul tons and tons of materials.  This was mind blowing the people of this time because it made both traveling and transporting raw goods much easier, faster, and cheaper being that it was steam powered.  Because of it's efficiency, it is still used today.  The fact that we still use this invention today, obviously it has changed the world. Today the railway system has been modernized and subways and metros have branched off from this.

The Cotton Gin

Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin in 1793.  The process of removing the seeds from cotton was a hard and painful job being that the cotton seeds are hard and sharp.  The cotton gin allows workers to feed the cotton into the invention and have it do all the work.  Not only did this save the workers hands, but it also multiplied the production of cotton.  Because of Eli Whitney's cotton gin, the production of cotton went from 1.5 million pounds in 1790 to 85 million in 1810.

The Seed Drill

Jethro Tull invented the seed drill in 1701.  He was one of the first scientific farmers and he was inspired by how wasteful it was to sow seeds by hand because many of them did not take root.  Because of this, he invented the seed drill which allowed farmers to sow seeds in well spaces rows and at certain depths in the ground.  This invention helped make crop rotation easier being that it would keep the land well organized to switch the crops and keep the land fertilized.  Seed drills are still used today, farmers pull the seed drills with tractors and boosts their crop production. 

The Spinning Jenny

The spinning jenny was invented by James Hargreaves in 1764.  This invention was made in order to help the weavers keep pace because it had a hand-powered mechanism that could spin multiple strands at the same time.  It was an updated version of the spinning wheel.  This invention changed the world by being an older model of what we use today which is automatic machinery.