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The Industrial Revolution
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What do you think the Industrial revolution is?
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Your task: Use at least 7 of the following words in a story.
Industrial Population growth Revolution Working conditions Factory Urban Transportation Agriculture Environment Child Labor Labor Union Capital Crop Inventions
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Definitions
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Industrial revolution
-refers to the greatly increased output of machine-made goods that began in England in the middle 1700s
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Large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
Factory Large building in which machinery is used to manufacture goods.
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The growth of cities and the migration of people into them.
Urbanization The growth of cities and the migration of people into them.
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the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
Agriculture the practice of cultivating the land or raising stock
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the yield from plants in a single growing season
Crop the yield from plants in a single growing season
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Using children as a worker.
Child labor Using children as a worker.
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http://www.history.com/topics/industrial- revolution/videos#the-industrial-revolition
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https://www.flocabulary.com/industrial- revolution/
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Warm up What is the Industrial Revolution?
How will technology possibly change during the industrial revolution? What types of technology do you think will be created?
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Gallery Walk! I will give you a sheet.
When you go to each picture you will fill out the chart based on what you see. Each picture has a number by it. Label them on your chart!
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Reading!
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Questions for reading! Before the Industrial Revolution, what would power machines? What are the three fossil fuels that will start to be used during the Industrial Revolution? Explain why the Industrial Revolution would start in England. Explain how and why the Industrial Revolution would spread. What are some benefits and consequences of the Industrial Revolution?
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During the late 1800s, our nation was in the midst of an Industrial Revolution. This was a time of great and rapid changes, when people switched from making goods by hand to manufacturing goods with power driven machines. Form a Prediction: How did the assembly line change production in the United States?
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Simulation
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NOTES! Take out a sheet of paper and pencil. Put everything else away. The title of your notes will be: Technology in the Industrial Revolution.
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Technology!
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Guess the technology?
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The Transcontinental Railroad
1862 Congress gave 2 companies money and land to build a TRANSCONTINETAL railroad 1869 It’s FINISHED!! How would this effect American society? Materials could easily be carried from distant cities Increased trade in America among each other Growth of industries
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Guess the Technology!
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Andrew Carnegie & the STEEL industry
The steel industry grew to keep up with the railroad industry and other industries need for strong metal How would this effect American society? Steel was tougher, cheaper, and easier to shape than iron. It was used to construct railroads, bridges, locomotives, factory machines, buildings, and many other things.
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Guess the Technology!!
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JD Rockefeller and the Oil Industry
Oil was discovered in 1860s and it was soon learned that it could be used to lighting lamps and greasing machinery How would this effect American society? Used to form kerosene to light lamps and grease machinery to be more effective Today, it is STILL the nations top source of energy
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Guess the Technology
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Telephone Alexander Graham Bell created the FIRST practical telephone.
1876 Alexander Graham Bell used the wealth he would gain to establish several research centers nationwide. Effect on American Society: The start of the growth of Communication. Alexander Graham Bell’s money would open several schools especially for the deaf
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Guess this Technology
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Thomas Edison Electric Lightbulb Effect on American Society:
First successful run was in October 1879 Would last 13.5 hours It would take several months to create a bulb that would last more than 1,2000 hours Effect on American Society: Work during the hours the sun was not up Factories could run longer
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Guess this technology!!
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Assembly Line and the Model T
a series of workers and machines in a factory by which a succession of identical items is progressively assembled Model T 1908 Steering Wheel on the left Simple to drive, easy and cheap to repair Effects on American Society Revolutionize transportation Changed how often people would move and travel.
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Other Technology Created..
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John Kay’s “Flying Shuttle”
Allows a single weaver to weave much wider fabrics. It could be mechanized allowing for automatic machine looms.
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Steam Tractor Created in Great Britain.
Would only be used on public roads. Used to carry light weight
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Steam Ship
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Agricultural Revolution
At the same time as the industrial revolution there is a revolution in the way we farm and the machines used in the fields!
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Warm Up Describe Child Labor
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What were working conditions like?
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Child Labor I
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What do you see?
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What do you see?
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Tenements? a room or a set of rooms forming a separate residence within a house or block of apartments.
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Writing Assignment After reading a viewing the photographs of Tenements, write a first person account of life living in a tenement and working in a factory during the Industrial Revolution
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Let’s Edit!!! For the next three minutes you are to reread your writing and edit it.
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What were living and working conditions like?
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How would workers advocate for change?
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What kinds of improvements have been made?
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Life After Tenements By 1920 most tenements would be demolished and replaced with privately subsidized apartment complexes. Low income living in MOST American cities would be transformed
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Rock Paper Scissors The basics
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Capitalism Private Ownership Freedom of Competition
(You all started with your own candy) Freedom of Competition (You played the game) Results in unequal economic classes (Some of you won and some of your lost) Your arguments “That’s not fair!” What could happen as a result? Here is another option
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Socialism Government ownership of industry
Who is the government here? Who was happy? Who was mad? Goal is to bring economic equality. Redistribute the candy Aims for a classless society Everyone is equal now.
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Communism Who wants to play again? Classless society
No government needed.
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Based on what YOU know about the Industrial Revolution which type of economy would you think GREW during the era?
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Reading and questions
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