Industrial Revolution Webquest
Examine each web site and respond to the questions that follow.
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Causes / Why Britain?
http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution
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 Examine the map of Industrial England.
4. Where were factories located? What natural resources were present at these sites?
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Characteristics of Industrialization
5. Read the before and after chart. What do you think was the most significant change? http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/indrevtabs1.asp
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?
- http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITmanchester.htm Read the accounts of descriptions of the industrial city of Manchester.
- What are the major concerns? (the accounts are numbered.)
- Take a look at some original 19th-century census documents - they're a rich source of information about the working lives of ordinary people. Scroll down to the census extract. What were some of the jobs that people did? List two from each class.http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/earning_a_living/census_as_source_material_01.shtml
10. Textile Workers: The Courtauld Silk Mill Workforce. Look over the jobs of women and men. What do you notice about the pay scale for women and men?
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
Read the testimonies and give a summary of one.
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
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Responses
16. http://www.schoolshistory.org.uk/IndustrialRevolution/workingconditions.htm Scroll down to the Factory acts. What act had the greatest impact? Why?
