3.5 The 1ST Industrial revolution

• Characteristics of the first industrial revolution
• Factors that led to industrialisation in Britain
• Factors that led to industrialisation in the United States
• Comparing the two: similarities and differences
• Impacts of the first industrial revolution on Africa
• Measures taken to address those impacts

• compare the factors that led to industrial revolution in Britain and USA
• discuss impacts of the 1st industrial revolution on Africa
• appraise measures taken to address the impact of the 1st industrial revolution on Africa
• recognise the measures taken by Africans to address the impact of the 1st industrial revolution on Africa

“How did the 1st industrial revolution underdevelop Africa?”

“How did the 1st industrial revolution contribute to colonization in Africa?”

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1. Industrialisation in Britain and the United States
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   What the industrial revolution was, why it began in Britain, why the United States followed - and how the two differed.
2. The impact on Africa, and what Africa has done about it
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   How industrialisation in Europe reshaped Africa, why it produced underdevelopment and conquest, and the measures taken in response.
3. What the first industrial revolution was
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   From hand tools in homes to machines in factories, water then steam, and why the change still shapes Kenya.
4. Why Britain went first
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Coal, iron, capital, colonies, labour, machines and a navy - together, not one magic invention.
5. Why the United States followed
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   Land, immigrants, cotton, railways and a large home market - compared with island Britain.
6. How the industrial revolution enabled colonisation
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   Steam, guns, railways and a hunger for raw materials and markets made the scramble practical and urgent.
7. How the industrial revolution underdeveloped Africa
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   Enslaved labour, raw-material trap, smashed crafts, and a colonial economy built to feed factories elsewhere.
8. Measures, and a message for today
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   How Africans and later states answered industrial impact - and a poem or message the curriculum asks you to compose.