1. Industrial Revolution Activity
Essential Question:
How did the Industrial Revolution impact the various regions of the United States?

2. Essential Question: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the various regions of the United States?
Individual:
Your first task will be to read and analyze one article on a particular region using the graphic organizer provided.
What is the main idea of the article? What are three supporting details that support that main idea? Be specific

3. Essential Question: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the various regions of the United States?
II. Regional Group (North, South or West)
Your second task will be to teach your article to your regional group.
You will also need to listen and take notes on the other articles for your region.
Each member of the group should have a completed graphic organizer for your region.

4. Essential Question: How did the Industrial Revolution impact the various regions of the United States?
III. National Group (North, South and West)
Your final task will be to teach all of your regional articles to your national group.
Your group will then create a poster displaying the research from all of the group’s work. The poster should include the following:
An image/symbol for each region
A map displaying each region
The research for each region (main ideas/supporting details)
A group answer to the essential question.

5. Life in the South Resources
A. Conditions of Antebellum Slavery
B. Life in the Plantation South
C. Eli Whitney’s Patent for the Cotton Gin

6. Life in the North Resources
A. New England Mill Workers
resources/an-era-of-great-change/religion-reform/new- england-mill-workers
B. Lowell Mill Girls and the Factory System
jackson/resources/lowell-mill-girls-and-factory-system- 1840
C. The First American Factories

7. Life in the West Resources
A. Waterways in the West
n/4_4.html
B. Immigration to Ohio, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Minnesota, Michigan in the 1800’s
ation/pdf/Germ_Scan.pdf
C. John Deere and the Steel Plow