Class: World History / Name:
Last Unit:
Age of Revolution / Current Unit:
Industrial Revolution / Next Unit:
Nationalism & Imperialism
The Big Idea: As the Industrial Revolution transformed the way people lived,
reformers fought to fix the problems caused by the changes.
Date / Learning Activities / Essential Questions
TH/1/4-F/1/5 /
  • L—Causes & Effects of the Industrial Revolution
  • Review of Class Expectations, Notebooks, Terms
/ What were the causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution?
M/1/8-T/1/9 /
  • G--Working Class During the Industrial Revolution
/ How did the Industrial Revolution change the lives of the working class?
W/1/10-TH/1/11 /
  • L—Capitalism, Communism, & Socialism
  • P--DBQ—Urbanization
/ What are the differences between capitalism, communism, & socialism?
How did urbanization help and harm the lives of the English people?
F/1/12-T/1/16 /
  • Terms Due in Schoology!
  • I—Webquest Reform in Great Britain
/ How did reform movements make Great Britain more democratic?
W/1/17-TH/1/18 /
  • SC—The Great Famine
/ Did the British commit genocide during the Irish Potato Famine?
F/1/19-M/1/22 /
  • Quiz Unit Terms Due in Schoology!
  • L--Women’s Suffrage Movement
  • V—Queen Victoria
/ How effective was the woman’s suffrage movement?
T/1/23-W/1/24 /
  • L-Realism in Art & Photography
  • R—Realism in Literature
  • Unit Review
/ How accurately did realism portray the Industrial Revolution?
TH/1/25-F/1/26 /
  • Unit Test
  • Notebooks Due!
  • I-Realism through Photography
/ How does the history of the Industrial Revolution help us to understand technological and economic change today?
Terms: Define in Notebook and Know for Quiz
Read Ch. 9 & 10, pp. 280-335
People / Places / Events / Ideas
Edmund Cartwright 286
James Watt 287
Entrepreneur 287
George Stephenson 288
John Stuart Mill 301
Adam Smith 300
Karl Marx 302
Louis Pasteur 330
Charles Darwin 331
Charles Dickens 267
Victor Hugo *
Victoria I 314
Emmeline Pankhurst 315
Marie Curie 331 / Manchester 290
Ireland 320 / Industrial Revolution G
Enclosure Movement 283
The Communist Manifesto 302
Great Reform Act of 1832 313
Chartist Movement 314
Great Famine 320 / Urbanization 289
Capitalism 300
Laissez-faire 300
Socialism 302
Communism 302
Suffrage 313
Social Darwinism 332
Realism 266
State Standards: Industrial Revolution (1750—1880) In this unit, students will analyze the costs and benefits of the Industrial Revolution as the world shifted from an agrarian economy to one based on manufacturing. Students will examine the influence of the Industrial Revolution on the growth of cities, reform movements, and changing social structures around the world.
Compelling Questions
  • How did new choices created by the Industrial Revolution change the way people lived? (Standard 1)
  • How did the Industrial Revolution affect the rise of labor? (Standard 2)
  • How did the Industrial Revolution lay the foundation for competing economic systems? (Standard 3)
  • What ideas of this period have the greatest impact on the 20th century? (Standard 4)
  • In what ways did the Industrial Revolution lead to new economic, political, and social relationships? (Standard 5)

*Definition provided by Ms. Garvey; L=Lecture, G=Group, I=Internet, P= Pair, R=Reading, SC=Socratic Circle; W=Writing