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Directions: Welcome to the Industrial Revolution webquest page! Please use the sites listed below each question to get a full perspective on urban life in the late 1700-1800's. Copy the questions and write the answers in your notebook
WEBQUEST QUESTIONS
1. For the average family, which members were expected to work, and for how many hours in a given day?
Workers- http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers1.html
Child labor- https://www.bl.uk/romantics-and-victorians/articles/child-labour
Child labor- http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html
Child labor-
https://eh.net/encyclopedia/child-labor-during-the-british-industrial-revolution/
Factory workers-
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/factories-in-the-industrial-revolution/
wages -
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRwages.htm
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRwages.htm
2. In general, what were working conditions like? Give an example fully describing the conditions in one of the following industries: coal mining, textiles, factories (like the Bryant & May corporation)
match girls-
http://spartacus-educational.com/TUmatchgirls.htm
coal mines-
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/coal-mines-in-the-industrial-revolution/
accidents-
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRaccidents.htm
pollution-
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRpollution.htm
deformities-
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRdeformities.htm
punishment-
http://spartacus-educational.com/IRpunishments.htm
3. In 19th century cities, what type of buildings did the poor live in? Describe them. What new feature in city life improved these conditions? (think about health and sanitation here!)
Urban poor-
http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/039a.html
Thames-
http://www.victorianweb.org/periodicals/punch/publichealth/1.html
River Thames-
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/thames1.html
homes-
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/life-in-industrial-towns/
Disease-
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/diseases-in-industrial-cities-in-the-industrial-revolution/
Disease-
http://www.victorianweb.org/science/health/health10.html
Night men-
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/19.html
Sewage-
http://www.victorianweb.org/technology/porter9.html
Slums-
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/slums.html
4. Who is Edwin Chadwick and what did he do for the future of living conditions in Britain? What was the major goal of the 1848 Public Health Act? (hint: there is a connection here between questions 3 & 4)
Edwin Chadwick-
http://spartacus-educational.com/PHchadwick.htm
Chadwick Report-
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html
Report-
http://www.victorianweb.org/history/work/sullivan/7.html#sewers
5. Who is Charles Dickens, and what did he write about? What is 'Realism'?
Charles Dickens-
http://spartacus-educational.com/PRdickens.htm
Dickens-
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensbio1.html
REFLECTION QUESTIONS
1. What information in this activity really struck or surprised you? Why?
2. What, in your opinion, is the biggest problem about this society? How would you change it?
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