1. A LESSON ON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
THE URBAN GAME
A LESSON ON THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

2. DIRECTIONS Concentrate on listening to the story.
Work as a group with each instruction to complete the task in the minutes given.
You will be evaluated on your poster and a short reflection at the end.
Appearance matters. You and your partner should try to have the same colored pen.
I can’t repeat any part of the story!
Listen and follow the directions carefully. Do NOT ask for repeating!

3. It is 1780, in a town just outside of Pittsburgh
Draw a river across your paper connecting east to west. The river should be about an inch wide. Draw:
a wooden bridge across the river
2 roads originating from each direction
10 single-family homes
a church
a cemetery
a pasture area
a store
a pub
and a lot of trees

4. By 1800, you begin to see some small changes.
Add 2 more single- family homes.
Add a water-powered gristmill for grinding grain
Add a blacksmith’s shop
Build yourself 1 nice home anywhere on the map you would like it to be

5. By 1805, the scene begins to change… you discover coal in your town!
Get a neighbor to make a dot somewhere on your paper.
This is your coalmine!
Construct a canal to provide better transportation – it must run from the coalmine to the river.

6. By 1810, the population begins to grow a bit.
Add 7 houses to your scene.

7. By 1820, needs are different.
Take away half of the pasture and add 1 more nice house.

8. In 1825, the town changes drastically. No turning back.
Add one factory! It’s a textile factory, thanks to Eli Whitney and his great inventions.
The cotton factory must be located on the river bank. It is water-powered, after all!

9. Things will only get better with this progress! Right?
The factory is changing our town. By 1830, we are growing. This is progress!
Add 5 houses, 1 church, 1 pub, and 1 store. You may draw additional roads and 1 bridge.
Add 5 new factories.
Things will only get better with this progress! Right?

10. By 1840, with all of the new factories, the demand for labor has grown our population. People are coming from all around the town for work.
Add 5 tenements (apartment buildings)

11. By 1850, the new population requires more…
Add 1 store, 1 pub, and 1 church.
Add 1 school for boys.
While much of the population works in the factories for low wages, there is a small middle class and an elite upper class of owners. They need the schooling for their boys.

12. By 1860, many of the workers in the factories need something to help them forget the hard work they do in the factories.
Add 2 more pubs.

13. By the next year, 1861, other wealthy investors come to town.
Add 2 large, special, luxury homes.

14. By 1880, the new owners begin bringing more progress for our town.
Add 10 more factories. You can put these anywhere, because Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse came up with a way to distribute electrical power
Factories no longer need to run on water power – we have electricity!
Add a humongous house. The one man who owns all the factories in your town is really rolling in it!

15. Toward the end of the century, in 1885, we are definitely seeing the costs of progress. We need to find more energy and update our town to support the factories.
Add 1 new coal mine and a new steel bridge to replace the old wooden bridge.
Thanks, Bessemer process!

16. This progress is really taking its toll… By 1890, the town is no longer as excited about the factories coming to town.
Add a cemetery, complete with headstones. Many of the headstones will read the names of those who died from doing their jobs in the new factories.

17. Railroads continue to expand across the US and connect the two coasts
Railroads continue to expand across the US and connect the two coasts. This means that the factory owners are able to make more money because they can ship their goods across the States. The workers just work and sleep. Some get frustrated by the situation. By 1890, our little town has definitely changed.
Add 1 jail and 2 pubs.

18. Still, progress doesn’t stop
Still, progress doesn’t stop! By 1895, we have to find ways to keep the town up at night to get the work done.
Draw street lights – fueled by electricity - lining your streets.

19. The work is never ending
The work is never ending. By 1895, with the changes in the factories for more production, it is getting more dangerous to go to work. Many of the injured and killed are the children working in the factories.
Add 2 hospitals and 1 cemetery.

20. The population to work in the factories is ever growing
The population to work in the factories is ever growing. By 1900, there is great demand for more housing and for businesses to support the population changes. Of course, new investors will come as well.
Add 20 houses, 5 tenements, 2 stores
1 church, 5 factories, and 1 pub
1 other huge, nice house

21. The middle and upper classes of our town are demanding social opportunities. By 1905, our little town is growing into a full city.
Add 1 museum, 1 university, 2 theaters, 2 more private schools.

22. For the working class, by 1908, life only gets worse
For the working class, by 1908, life only gets worse. There are no regulations on the factories. The pollution is fogging our city. Workers are being killed or injured every day. The women and children are no longer innocent and protected. Times have definitely changed…
Add 3 more cemeteries, 1 jail, 3 more hospitals - all to accommodate the poor victims of urban life.

23. Reflection Questions (back side)
What social, economic, and environmental changes occurred as the US industrialized?
Denver is experiencing rapid urbanization. What are some similarities that you experienced in the game that you see presently in Denver? What is different?

24. Short Answer Questions
ACE
Answer. Cite. Explain.
** when I say “cite,” I don’t mean cite a textbook. I mean provide evidence. But ACE is way cooler than APE. 
Sentence stems!
“One environmental effect of industrialization was _____. For example, _____. This was an effect because _____.”
PEEL
Point. Evidence. Explain. Link back to prompt.

26. What was the Industrial Revolution?
New manufacturing process that used machines (rather than humans)
Helped end slavery!!!!!
Revolutionized mass production
Started with textiles
Increased production, lowered costs of goods, led to new technologies
Essential question: did the Industrial Revolution have a more positive or more negative impact on life?

27. New Changes
Recap: what was the economy based on before the Industrial Rev?
Predict: how would the Industrial Rev change that?
Human and animal labor. Feudalism. Guilds. Small scale.

28. SHORT-TERM EFFECTS
Things got really bad really quickly

29. Urbanization Movement to cities for jobs
What are going to be problems faced by those moving into the cities for work? – overcrowding, disease, etc

30. Lots of families crammed into tenements – usually right near factories; pollution terrible

32. Working Conditions and Wages
Factory system
Less skilled
Conditions were dirty, dangerous, and unhealthy
….coal mines, anyone?
Long hours (10-16 hrs)
Not paid well (women and children less than men for same work)
Child labor!
Why would children need to work?

33. Women in the Workforce Factory jobs to support their family
Paid half or a third of an adult male’s salary

35. Child Labor
Why would kids need to work? BC urbanization! Too expensive to live in cities

36. Child Labor Earned 10% of an adult male’s wage
Accidents were commonplace
A visitor to England commented that he had seen so many people in the streets without arms and legs that it was like "living in the midst of the army just returned from a campaign."
Those late for work were severely punished
They were hit with straps to work faster
Some children were dipped head first into a water cistern if they became drowsy
Talking to other children was forbidden

38. Worker’s Ages in Cotton Mills
Age Male Female Under

39. How Andrew Carnegie lived…

40. How JD Rockefeller lived…

41. Social Hierarchy Shift
Ownership of land no longer most important factor
Industrial capitalists (factory owners)
Engineers, managers, shopkeepers
Urban poor (factory workers)

42. How did people respond to the changes and abuses of the Industrial Revolution?
With a partner, predict demands and reforms ask by each of the following social groups:
Women and children
Wages
Factory conditions
Living conditions

43. How did people respond to the changes and abuses of the Industrial Revolution?
USA passed child labor and women labor laws
Reformers regulated living and working conditions
Workers formed unions

44. Growing gap between rich and poor made people mad
How did people respond to the changes and abuses of the Industrial Revolution?
Growing gap between rich and poor made people mad
Socialism and communism
Government controls and plans the economy
Vs Adam Smith’s capitalism

45. LONG-TERM EFFECTS
ENOUGH DEPRESSING STUFF; LET’S DISCUSS HAPPY IMPACTS

46. Leisure By the 1900s, more money + more free time = more fun! Parks
Circuses
Sports—football
Bicycles
Libraries
Operas, theaters &
museums

47. Realism and Romanticism

48. Health & Welfare Smallpox vaccine Penicillin Antiseptics Salvation
Army

49. Closure Respond to one of the two following short- response prompts:
Do you think we’re undergoing a new revolution?
What would it be called?
How will it impact society?
What will history books write about your generation?
Did the Industrial Revolution have more positive or negative consequences?
Were the short-term atrocities negated by the long- term impacts?
Would communism have been as wide-spread