Urban Game

WELCOME TO: THE YEAR 1700  A River across your paper connecting east to west (should be about an inch wide)  Draw a wooden bridge across the river  4 roads originating from each direction (north, south, east, west)  10 houses  Church  Cemetery  Store  Pub  Coal Mine  Lots of trees everywhere (called COMMONS)

Round  1 nice home anywhere  Canal (must run parallel to the river)

Round  7 houses

Round  1 nice house

Round  1 factory (the cotton factory must be placed on the river bank not the canal; canal water is not swift enough to generate the power to move parts of the water frame)

Richard Arkwright’s Water Frame

Round  5 houses  1 church  1 pub  1 store  additional roads  1 bridge

Round cont…  5 factories (remember they have to be on the river)

Round  5 tenements

Industrial Revolution Tenements

Round  1 store  1 pub  1 church  1 school for boys

Round  2 pubs

Round  2 large special luxury homes

Round  10 more factories (can be away from river)  1 huge monster house

James Watt’s Steam Engine

Round  1 new coal mine  iron bridge to replace the old wooden bridge

Round  Cemetery

Reflection Questions  Describe what it was like to work in the mines  What were the ages of people that worked in the mines?  How did life change for these workers during the industrial revolution?  Why do you think it was necessary for people to work in such conditions?

Life in the coal mines

Round  1 railroad (connecting your factory district to the outer coal mining region)

Round  1 jail  2 pubs

Round  Street lights

Round  2 hospitals  1 cemetery

Round  1 railroad line

Round  20 houses  5 tenements  2 stores  1 church  5 factories  1 pub  1 huge nice house

Round  1 museum  1 university  2 theaters  2 private schools

Round  3 cemeteries  1 jail  3 more hospitals…. all to accommodate the victims of urban life.