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A.) **Demographic developments:** -pollution occured from all of the factories - people were no longer on the fields working, they were now always in factories. - migrations - new birthrate patterns- rising birth rate due to improved food supply and declining mortality rate due to improved medical procedures which creates a larger population - new and efficient medicine being made - end of the Atlantic slave trade- the defeat of Napolean shifted control of Africa to British

-Creation of thousands of new products - Money was being used and trade increased alot because there was alot of things to export. - scientific developments like the steam engine, railroades, otton gin, telegraphs and phones - serfs could take more work off of land - they had to pay for land and the taxes was unbearably high
 * Commercial developments:**
 * Serfdom Emancipation**

B.) New Social classes rose in result of industrialization - aristocrats who were rich based on industrial success were ath the top - middle class were managers, accountants, ministers, lawyers, doctors, and other skilled proffessions - lower class was the working class which was huge because it was made up of factory workerd in the cities and peasant farmers in the country side -Because of urbanization people were living side by side the rich, unlike before, so the poor were getting to see how great the upper class lived - Factory workers saw how the aristocrats were getting rich off of the hard work that they were doing which made them angry - People like Karl Marx, whom spoke out for what they believed in, came about -Karl Marx wrote that the working class would revolt which gave people ideas - Marx said that the working class had oppurtunities but were being exploited from them -Luddites were destroying equipment in the middle of the night to protest working conditions and pitiful wages - All the government did in result of the incidents concerning the luddites was, side with business owners and execute some of the workers wh participated in the protest and to add on to all of this they enacted harsh laws against any further action -Key- lower class groups turned to political protest as a means of compensating for industrial change - Socialism and Marxism--- emancipation of serfs
 * This is the tension that came about**

C.) Western Europe: - Women's roles changed significantly - Educational oppurtunities were expanded - New work roles and protest outlets, like feminism, occured - Relationships between women were affected by the growing use of domestic servants - Even though women were not in the house as much because they began to work in factories more, they were still excpected to fulfill all of their regular household duties.


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