The Industrial Revolution Web Quest

The Industrial Revolution Web Quest!

Directions: You will need a computer and internet access to explore the websites listed below in order to find the answers to the questions. You will also be asked to complete some online activities as well. The websites are listed first and then the questions to answer for that site are below them. Good luck! http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/quizzes/industrial/industrial_revolution_index.html

The Industrial Revolution originally started in Great Britain before it spread to America and other parts of the world. How much do you know about the origins of the Industrial Revolution? Take the 12 question general quiz and find out. Record how many you got right. ______/ 12 http://encarta.msn.com/dictionary_1861695022/Industrial_Revolution.html

1. In your own words, what was the Industrial Revolution?

2. Why should it be studied in history classes today? http://www.coe.uh.edu/archive/sstudies/sstudies_lessons/ssles5/index.html

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? By 1900, there were close to (6)______children under the age of 15 working throughout the country. Cornelius (7)______was the richest and most powerful railroad baron. He also owned a (8)______line and knew how important the railroad was going to be to a growing nation.

Workers came to realize that with the Industrial Revolution and the growth it caused, they needed to band together to demand better (9)______and (10)______. This was the beginning of the American (11)______. http://americanhistory.si.edu/exhibitions/exhibition.cfm?key=38&exkey=51

12. What are the dates given for the American Industrial Revolution?

13. What are two things featured at this exhibit?

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/25/035.html

14. In your own words, what is Smith trying to say?

http://www.guhsd.net/mcdowell/wq/ir/ . Click on the process button on the left and then find the Inventors link to see what inventors were inventing.

15. List three facts about Henry Bessemer.

~ http://www.frbsf.org/currency/industrial/legal/index.html

16. Check out what American money looked like during the Industrial Revolution. Do you like it better than what we have now?

http://pbskids.org/wayback/tech1900/

17. What is your favorite prediction from 1900? Do you think it came true? (SNAPSHOT)

18. What does Max Morath have to say about how life was different for kids on the farm?

Search the Industrial Revolution in Google images. Pick one picture to analyze and answer the following questions about:

19. Who/what is the subject of your picture?

20. Based on what you see in the picture, what do you think life would have been life back then?

List the webpage here please:

Compare and contrast your picture to the one found at http://www.joeappleyardsportingartist.f2s.com/ag6/ag147.jpg

21. What do you think life was like in this picture?

22. What technologies are missing from this life?