The Industrial Revolution in the Americas

INTRODUCTION

Today we will study the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution in the Americas, particularly North America.

Question of the Day

What were the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution in the United States?

Focus Questions

  • How did the Industrial Revolution change what Americans produced?

  • In what ways did the Industrial Revolution changed how Americans produced goods?

  • How did the Industrial Revolution affect the way that people waged war?

VOCABULARY

    1. Industrial Revolution

    2. Enclosure

    3. Crop rotation

    4. Industrialization

    5. Factors of production

    6. Factory

    7. Entrepreneur

    8. Urbanization

    9. Middle class

    10. Stock

    11. Corporation

    12. Laissez-faire

    13. Adam Smith

    14. Capitalism

    15. Utilitarianism

    16. Socialism

    17. Karl Marx

    18. Communism

    19. Union

    20. Strike

    21. Suffrage

    22. Chartist Movement

    23. Queen Victoria

    24. Third Republic

    25. Iron law of wages

    26. Malthusian trap

    27. Invisible hand

    28. Competition

    29. Price mechanism

    30. Dominion

    31. Penal colony

    32. Home rule

    33. U.S. Civil War

    34. Assembly line

    35. Charles Darwin

    36. Theory of evolution

WHAT IS DUE TODAY?

  1. Be prepared for a matching quiz on vocabulary terms 21-36.

  2. Read Chapter 26 (Sections 3 and 4) in the blue textbook.

  3. Take notes on the reading. You should organize your notes around the statements below. Under each statement in your notes should be SHE from the reading that supports the statement. If you cannot find support for a statement, do not include it in your notes.

    • Statement #1: The Industrial Revolution altered the goods that Americans produced.

    • Statement #2: The Industrial Revolution changed how Americans produced goods.

    • Statement #3: The Industrial Revolution changed the ways that people waged war.

ASSESSMENTS AND ACTIVITIES

  1. Vocabulary quiz on terms 21-26.

  2. Scored discussion on Chapter 26 (Sections 3 and 4).

  3. DBQ activity. We will continue working on the DBQ activity that we started last week. Click here to find it again. Work from your Google doc ("Why England First"). Try to finish the body of the essay today. This PowerPoint may be helpful, as it explains how to write a DBQ response.

WHAT IS DUE NEXT CLASS?

  1. Read Chapter 6 in The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner.

  2. Take notes on the reading. Organize your notes using the Question of the Day and the Focus Questions for next class. For each one, note at least one passage and any other information from the text that helps to answer the question.

ENRICHMENT

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