The Industrial Revolution Web Quest!
Directions: Create and share a google document with me at shipdog65@gmail.com. Using the links below answer the questions that go along with the links. Good luck!
How much do you really know about the Industrial Revolution? Take the quiz and find out. Screenshot the results and past on this your document. (You can do this with a phone or use the print screen option, either way)
1. In your own words, what was the Industrial Revolution?
2. Why should it be studied in history classes today?
3. What is a revolution?
4. List the causes of the American Industrial Revolution.
5. Who was Samuel Slater and why was he important to the Industrial Revolution?
http://www.eiu.edu/eiutps/childhood.php
6. How many children were working during the Industrial Revolution?
7. Describe their conditions.
http://www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/primarysourcesets/industrial-revolution/
- Click on the Library of Congress link above. Pick 3 items of interest from the industrial revolution that are primary sources; describe them; hyperlink to them; explain why these are telling artifacts of the industrial revolution and why you chose them.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/launch_gms_muck_brass.shtml
11. Yes, seriously, I want you to play a video game! This game is in reference to the British Industrial Revolution, however, there are numerous similarities. Take a screen shot at the end and send it to me. Whoever scores highest gets bonus points!
http://wwww.gilderlehrman.org/history-by-era/gilded-age/essays/history-times-industrial-revolution - NOTE This may not answer all of the following questions, you may have to research some of the answers.
12. What are the dates given for the American Industrial Revolution?
13. How are people divided up in this time period?
14. What were the benefits and downfalls for all involved
http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/035.html
14. In your own words, what is Smith trying to say?
https://www.asme.org/engineering-topics/articles/manufacturing-processing/henry-bessemer
- List three facts about Henry Bessemer.
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18. Summarize his overall importance to the Industrial Revolution.
http://www.frbsf.org/currency/industrial/legal/index.html
19. Check out what American money looked like during the Industrial Revolution. Do you like it better than what we have now?
20. Why?
Search the Industrial Revolution in Google images. Pick one picture to analyze and answer the following questions about. You must hyperlink or paste the image into your document!!!:
21. Attach the picture to your answer document. Who/what is the subject of your picture?
22. Based on what you see in the picture, what do you think life would have been like back then?
23. List the hyperlink here please:
Compare and contrast your picture to the one found at
http://ehstoday.com/galleries/photographs-lewis-hine-industrial-revolution-and-child-laborers-photo-gallery#slide-0-field_images-31331
21. What do you think life was like in this picture?
22. What technologies are missing from this life?
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