The Industrial Revolution (1700s-1800s)
c. 1500-1700’s--Improvements made
in Great Britain
involving soil &
fertilizers.
Late 1700’s---Inventions
of spinning jenny; Watt’s
steam engine; various
powered machines.
1807-mid-1800’s--Invention of
steamboat &
railroads.
Learning Targets and Skills
NYS Curriculum- Unit Five: An Age of Revolution (1750-1914)
G. Economic & social revolutions
1. Human and physical geography
2. Agrarian revolution
3. The British Industrial Revolution
a. Capitalism and a market economy
b. Factory system
c. Shift from mercantilism to laissez-faire economics—
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
d. Changes in social classes
e. Changing roles of men, women, and children
f. Urbanization
g. Responses to industrialization
1.) Utopian reform—Robert Owen
2.) Legislative reform
3.) Role of unions
4.) Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels and command economies
5.) Sadler Report and reform legislation
6.) Parliamentary reforms---expansion of suffrage
7.) Writers (Dickens and Zola)
8.) Global migrations (19th century)
9.) Writings of Thomas Malthus (Essay on the Principles of Population)
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1848--- Karl Marx &
Friedrich Engels publish
The Communist
Manifesto.
Mid-Late 1800’s---Inventions of
steel industry; electricity;
telegraph; light bulb;
automobiles/ 1903---airplane
invented.
Assessment Examples
Sample Regents Multiple Choice Question
In England, which circumstance was a result of the other three?
(1) Availability of labor
(2) Abundance of coal and iron
(3) Waterpower from many rivers
(4) Start of the Industrial Revolution
Sample Regents Multiple Choice Question
In the late 1800s, one response of workers in England to unsafe
working conditions was to
(1) Take control of the government
(2) Return to farming
(3) Set minimum wages
(4) Form labor unions
Sample Regents (Thematic or DBQ) Essay Question
Click on essays below to see the task
Thematic Essay
Change: Non-political Revolutions- (January 2008)
Task: Identify two nonpolitical revolutions that brought
important intellectual, economic, and/or social changes to
societies and for each
 Describe one change brought about by this nonpolitical
revolution
 Discuss an impact this nonpolitical revolution had on a
specific society or societies
DBQs-Environmental Effects of Industrialization (June 2001)
The Industrial Revolution (1700s-1800s)
Curriculum Resources
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Print Resources
TEXTBOOKS:
⃝ Journey Across Time, pgs.724-744
⃝ World Cultures and Geography, pgs.270-271
⃝ Prentice Hall Review Book (Brown Book), pgs. 164-169
⃝ Nystrom’s Atlas of World History, pgs. 100-101
Digital Resources
WEBSITES:
⃝ The Industrial Revolution (Inventions and Innovations)
This link is to a page about inventions, click through the site for much more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/history/industrial_era/the_industrial_revolut
ion/revision/9/
Primary Source Wall
⃝ Lowell Mill Girl Letter
⃝ Children in Textile Mill
⃝ Political Cartoon
⃝ Map of Train lines
PHOTOGRAPHS & DRAWINGS
⃝ The Industrial Revolution in Britain
http://www1.umassd.edu/ir/gallery/
Short Text Binder – In classroom
⃝ Regentsprep.org - Industrial Revolution
⃝ Diseases and Urbanization
⃝ Stolen Childhood – Play on Child Labor
⃝ Industrial Revolution – Big History
See more related videos on the industrial revolution linked on website.
Find many more documents in the short text binder!
VIDEOS:
⃝ The Industrial Revolution (Brainpop)
http://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/ushistory/industrialrevolution/
⃝ The Industrial Revolution (History.com)
http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution/videos#the-industrialrevolition
⃝ Adam Smith and The Wealth of Nations (Brainpop)
https://www.brainpop.com/math/dataanalysis/adamsmith/
⃝ Communism (Brainpop)
https://www.brainpop.com/socialstudies/economics/communism
⃝ Adam Smith and Karl Marx Talk Economics
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnRNXVLu3ek
JOURNAL ENTRIES
⃝ Excerpts from diaries by multiple authors (1801-1849)
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/children_industrial_revolution.htm
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