Library | Webliographies Examine each web site and respond to the questions that follow. Causes / Why Britain? http://www.msu.edu/user/brownlow/indrev.htm 1. When did the Industrial Revolution begin? 2. In what country did the Industrial Revolution begin? 3. In what area/field/industry was the most advancement made during the Industrial Revolution? http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/brummettconcise/chapter98/medialib/thumbs/ch24_514.html 4. Where were factories located? What natural resources were present at these sites? ____________________________________________________________________________ Characteristics of Industrialization 5. Read the before and after chart. What do you think was the most significant change? http://www.jhs.jordan.k12.ut.us/faculty/bcharon/whlinks310a.html 6. Read over the Industrial Revolution timeline. Write down 3 events and dates that you feel had the greatest impact. http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/ir/irchron.html 7. http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html What were living conditions like in the cities? What were some of the jobs that children did?
11. Miners: Illustrations of women and children in the mines. Describe what you see. 12. (scroll down from above link) Testimonies from a Commission of Enquiry in the Mines in South Wales 13. Seamstresses: Scroll down to the song: "The Distressed Seamstress" Read the song. What is the seamstress asking for? 14. http://www.mtholyoke.edu/courses/rschwart/ind_rev/images/indust.html.htm What do you notice about these images of Industrial England? 15. Scroll down to where factory owners are listed and read accounts that are for and against Child labor. Briefly describe the contrast in ideas. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Twork.htm ____________________________________________________________________________ Responses 16. http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/IndustrialRevolution/workingconditions.htm Scroll down to the Factory acts. What act had the greatest impact? Why? As time allows: Click through the activity link and learn about technology and key inventions: http://www.teachersfirst.com/lessons/inventor2/lesson.cfm Activities: Build a Victorian Business http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/industry_invention/act_cotton_mill_entry.shtml Improving conditions http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/act_muck_brass_entry.shtml Industrial Hangman – guess the inventor http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/hangman/hangman_industrial.htm Another, more general hangman with industrial terms http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/hangman/hangman_industrial2.htm
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