1. Industrial Revolution & World War I Unit
The Factory System
Industrial Revolution & World War I Unit

2. Essential Question
How did industrialization impact the way of life within cities?

3. Key Vocabulary
Urbanization- The mass movement of people moving from the rural country to the cities.
Factory Acts- Laws passed that were designed to protect children by setting limits for the age and hours children could work.

4. Warm up
What do you think the living conditions were like in industrial cities?

5. Urbanization
The increasing demand for workers led masses of people to migrate from farms to cities. This movement is called urbanization.
This movement caused some cities to double or even quadruple in size.
London quickly became Europe’s largest city, doubling the size of Paris.

6. New social classes were created by the Industrial Revolution.
The middle class owned the new factories and mines.
The working class worked in the factories and mines
They lived and worked in deplorable conditions.

7. Industrial Revolution cities
No development plans, building or sanitary codes
Lacked adequate education, housing and police
No street drainage, thus human waste and garbage collected.
These unsanitary conditions led to the spread of diseases.
Cholera
Average life span of city workers was 17!
Workers reacted to these conditions through riots and religion.

8. Assessment Prompt 1
How did urbanization and the early moments of the Industrial Revolution create problems for cities?

9. Working Conditions
Workers moved to the city to work in huge buildings called factories.
Long Hours: hr. days
Dangerous machines
Poorly lit
No job security
Filthy; polluted air
No breaks
Low wages
Beatings
Extreme heat

10. The coal mines were even worse than factories.
Black lung disease
Extreme heat
Explosions
Flooding
Collapsing tunnels
Employed many women and children
Average life span was 10 yrs. Shorter than other workers.

11. Working class families also sent their children to work, many as young as 5 or 6 years old!
“Factory Acts” were eventually passed to protect children.
Eventually, other laws were passed to shorten the workday for women and require children to be educated.

12. Assessment Prompt 2
Explain the significance of the Factory Acts and how they impact the world to this day.

13. Results of Industrialization
The Industrial Revolution can be said to be both a blessing and a curse…
Negatives Outcomes
Early Industrial Revolution was characterized by low pay and horrible living/working conditions
Pollution

14. Positive Outcomes
Reforms were eventually passed to improve conditions
Better wages, hours, and conditions
More jobs
Increased income
Advanced modes of transportation
More goods, cheaper
Increased standard of living
Better educational opportunities

15. Assessment Prompt 3
Impacts of Industrialization
Positive
Negative

16. Activity
“You went down one step even from the fowl area into the cellar in which a family of human beings lived. It was very dark inside. The window-panes many of them were broken and stuffed with rags…the smell was so foul as almost to knock the two men down…they began to penetrate the thick darkness of the place, and to see three or four little children rolling on the damp, nay wet brick floor, through which the stagnant, filthy moisture of the street oozed up.” – Elizabeth Gaskell

17. Task: Create a political cartoon that highlights a condition or problem associated with the Industrial Revolution in Great Britain. Here are some suggestions:
Pollution
Conditions of rich people and poor people
Dangerous conditions in factories
Crowded conditions in tenements
The cartoon should display specific characters, a title, and captions or a phrase.

18. Journal