N O T E B O O K
G U I D E
The Industrial Revolution
What was so revolutionary about the Industrial Revolution?
P R E V I E W
Carefully examine the image your teacher projects. Then answer these questions in your notebook:
• What interesting details do you see in the top set of panels? The middle set of panels?
The bottom set of panels?
• How are the pictures on the left different from those on the right?
• How might inventions shown on the right have changed or improved life in Great Britain?
• For what purpose do you think this piece of art was created?
• If you were the artist, what title might you give this work?
R E A D I N G
Key Content Terms
As you complete the Reading Notes, use these
terms in your answers.
productivity
capitalism
mass production
urbanization
enclosure
N O T E S
Section 3
Create the matrix below in your notebook.
For each country, list one similarity and one
difference between their experience with
industrialization and that of Great Britain.
Similarity to
Great Britain
Section 2
1. For each of the five factors of industrialization, sketch and label a simple symbol or
illustration showing how the factor helped
Great Britain.
2. Write a one-sentence summary of how
the textile industry in Great Britain changed
throughout the 1700s.
3. Describe the resources and transportation
system in Great Britain.
Difference
from Great
Britain
Belgium
France
United States
Germany
Japan
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Section 4
Section 5
1. Create a T-chart comparing the domestic
system and the factory system.
2. Complete this statement from the perspective of each of the people listed below: “I
feel _______ about the Industrial Revolution because ____________.”
a) factory owner
b) factory worker c) consumer
3. In your notebook, create an illustrated
flowchart like the one below. For each agricultural change, draw a simple illustration
and write a caption explaining the effect of
the change you illustrated.
new
machines
new
methods
enclosure
movement
4. Explain the role of banking and big business in the Industrial Revolution.
1. List five ways the factory system changed
life for industrial workers, women, and
children. Circle the one you think was the
most important.
2. In your notebook, create the cause/effect
diagrams below. For each phenomenon,
summarize two causes and two effects
described in the reading.
Causes
Effects
Urbanization
Causes
Effects
Labor
Unions
3. Explain why Adam Smith would support a
laissez-faire economic policy.
4. List one way you think government should
have regulated big business in the 1800s.
P ro c essing
Write a 1-2 page newspaper article from the viewpoint you were assigned during the art exhibition
gallery walk and debate. Your article should
• appeal to the biased opinions of your newspaper’s readers.
• have a strong thesis statement (argument) that answers this question: How accurately did the art
exhibition represent the era of the Industrial Revolution?
• refer specifically to at least three pieces of art from the exhibition as evidence.
• discuss at least one aspect of the Industrial Revolution for each of the following categories:
industrial production changes, such as the factory system or the rise of big business
agricultural changes, such as the enclosure movement or technological innovations
social consequences, such as urbanization or the changing lives of workers and children
political consequences, such as labor unions and government regulation
• be free of spelling or grammatical errors.
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