The Industrial Revolution
This will be a 2-part assignment:
Part 1 - After sharing with me your google email address, I will share a Google Presentation document with you. On this presentation, there are 15 different topics. Each of you will have one topic that you are responsible for. These presentations will need to be 4 minutes in length and will answer all of the pertinent questions about your topic (who, what, where, when, why, and how, as well as their importance of your topic to the Industrial Revolution in American History). They need to be completed by the end of the day on Friday, January 23. You will have time in class to work on them Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday so plan according. They will be graded on completeness, creativity and on the short study guide that you create for the rest of the class. The presentations will be given in the order that they are arraged in the presentation and will be intermixed while we watch the History Channel Series, "The Men Who Built America."
Part 2 - There is a webquest component to this assignment as well. This assignment is simple. You will need to create a google document and share it with me using the email shipdog65@gmail.com. In this document you will answer the following questions using the links I have provided. This assignment will be due by the end of the Series we are watching. This will be (tentatively) about Wednesday Feb. 4.
Webquest :
Follow all instructions in
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STEP ONE: Industrial Revolution Summary
Go to the following link and read the overview of the Industrial Revolution (make sure you read both pages). Then answer the following questions in your google doc:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm
1. What was the Industrial Revolution?
2. When and how did it begin?
3. What were some of the causes?
4. What were the three important developments?
5. How did it change society (what were the effects)? LIST AND EXPLAIN all of the ways mentioned in the article (mostly on page 2).
6. Is this article a primary or secondary source? Explain.
STEP ONE: Industrial Revolution Summary
Go to the following link and read the overview of the Industrial Revolution (make sure you read both pages). Then answer the following questions in your google doc:
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/a/indrevoverview.htm
1. What was the Industrial Revolution?
2. When and how did it begin?
3. What were some of the causes?
4. What were the three important developments?
5. How did it change society (what were the effects)? LIST AND EXPLAIN all of the ways mentioned in the article (mostly on page 2).
6. Is this article a primary or secondary source? Explain.
STEP
TWO: Definitions
1. Copy the following definition onto your paper.
Industrial Revolution - a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production (a rise in factories)
2. Look up the following definitions (on dictionary.com or wikipedia in a separate window) and define and explain how they relate to the industrial revolution:
a) textiles b) technology c) mass production d) trade unions e) strikes f) Lowell System
g) Sarah G. Bagley and Labor Reform
1. Copy the following definition onto your paper.
Industrial Revolution - a period of rapid growth in the use of machines in manufacturing and production (a rise in factories)
2. Look up the following definitions (on dictionary.com or wikipedia in a separate window) and define and explain how they relate to the industrial revolution:
a) textiles b) technology c) mass production d) trade unions e) strikes f) Lowell System
g) Sarah G. Bagley and Labor Reform
STEP THREE:
Discover the Inventors and Inventions
For each of the inventors below, click on the names and terms to go to websites that explain them. Then answer the questions that follow for each of them:
1. Francis Cabot Lowell
a) What was his invention or creation?
b) Explain it. Also explain how it was part of the industrial revolution.
c) Explain how his system was important to American history.
2. Samuel Slater
a) Who was he and what did he create?
b) Read the part about child labor: What was life like in the mills? Why did he employ children?
c) What was in slatersville? (Why was it important?)
d) Why do you think we have child labor laws today?
3. Samuel Morse
a) What did he create?
b) How was his invention important to history? How was it useful?
4. Robert Fulton
a) What did he have a part in inventing? Explain the invention.
b) Why was this invention so important to America?
5. Eli Whitney***
***a) What was the very important invention that Eli Whitney created?
b) Why was this such an important invention for America (what were the advantages)?
6. Peter Cooper
a) What did Peter Cooper Create and Why was it important?
7. John Deere
a) Who was John Deere and what did he create?
b) How has he impacted history?
c) How is the company still relevant today?
8. Cyrus McCormick
a) What did he invent and why is it important?
9. Isaac Singer
a) What is he famous for creating?
b) Is his invention still used today?
c) What else did he invent?
For each of the inventors below, click on the names and terms to go to websites that explain them. Then answer the questions that follow for each of them:
1. Francis Cabot Lowell
a) What was his invention or creation?
b) Explain it. Also explain how it was part of the industrial revolution.
c) Explain how his system was important to American history.
2. Samuel Slater
a) Who was he and what did he create?
b) Read the part about child labor: What was life like in the mills? Why did he employ children?
c) What was in slatersville? (Why was it important?)
d) Why do you think we have child labor laws today?
3. Samuel Morse
a) What did he create?
b) How was his invention important to history? How was it useful?
4. Robert Fulton
a) What did he have a part in inventing? Explain the invention.
b) Why was this invention so important to America?
5. Eli Whitney***
***a) What was the very important invention that Eli Whitney created?
b) Why was this such an important invention for America (what were the advantages)?
6. Peter Cooper
a) What did Peter Cooper Create and Why was it important?
7. John Deere
a) Who was John Deere and what did he create?
b) How has he impacted history?
c) How is the company still relevant today?
8. Cyrus McCormick
a) What did he invent and why is it important?
9. Isaac Singer
a) What is he famous for creating?
b) Is his invention still used today?
c) What else did he invent?
STEP
FOUR: Transportation Revolution
Answer the following questions from the reading HERE.
1. What was the transportation revolution?
2. Why was it important?
3. What were the new forms of transportation?
4. Explain how each of these new methods of transportation affected Americans. (For example, the railroads allowed people to travel farther and to go westward eventually. They helped move goods and people across long distances. There were many people against them though...they were loud, uncomfortable, slow, etc.)
Answer the following questions from the reading HERE.
1. What was the transportation revolution?
2. Why was it important?
3. What were the new forms of transportation?
4. Explain how each of these new methods of transportation affected Americans. (For example, the railroads allowed people to travel farther and to go westward eventually. They helped move goods and people across long distances. There were many people against them though...they were loud, uncomfortable, slow, etc.)
STEP
FIVE: POWERPOINT REVIEW QUESTIONS
Look at the Powerpoint attached HERE to answer the following questions.
1. (Slide 3) Describe how the population was changing from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. Also, In what direction was it changing?
2. (Slides 2-3) Why was the population changing?
3. Explain Indian Removal (Slide 5).
4. Summarize and explain the following slides: 12, 15-21
Look at the Powerpoint attached HERE to answer the following questions.
1. (Slide 3) Describe how the population was changing from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s. Also, In what direction was it changing?
2. (Slides 2-3) Why was the population changing?
3. Explain Indian Removal (Slide 5).
4. Summarize and explain the following slides: 12, 15-21
STEP
SIX: Critical Thinking Questions - At least 2-3 sentences each.
Use your notes and your brain from all of the previous steps to answer the following:
1. How did the Industrial Revolution shape or change America?
2. What were some of the positive results of industrialization?
3. What were some negative effects of the industrial revolution?
4. How did the growth of factories change American life?
5. How did the transportation revolution change the economy?
Read the following website: http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
6. What was child labor like in the factories. Why were children used as workers?
7. How were the children treated? Give examples.
8. What reform efforts have been made (last paragraph on website)? Are children still allowed to work today? Why or why not?
9. Why do you think we have a labor day?
Use your notes and your brain from all of the previous steps to answer the following:
1. How did the Industrial Revolution shape or change America?
2. What were some of the positive results of industrialization?
3. What were some negative effects of the industrial revolution?
4. How did the growth of factories change American life?
5. How did the transportation revolution change the economy?
Read the following website: http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
6. What was child labor like in the factories. Why were children used as workers?
7. How were the children treated? Give examples.
8. What reform efforts have been made (last paragraph on website)? Are children still allowed to work today? Why or why not?
9. Why do you think we have a labor day?
