2.  Why, in your opinion, was there such a difference?
 
 

3.  Why would Mrs. Smith rather have her children beaten than fined?
 
 

Miners
1. Where might the pictures in mines have been found?  Who is the intended audience?
 

Seamstresses
1.  What are some of the health dangers from working in a factory?
 

2 . After you have answered the rest of the questions, write a third verse to “The Distresses Seamstress.”
 
 

Back to Women homepage, go to the second site.
1.  What was the purpose of this testimony?  Why did someone take the time to interview Elizabeth Bentley and others about the conditions in factories?
 
 

2. What hours did Elizabeth Bentley work?
 

3.  What happened when workers were quartered?
 

Back to Women homepage, go to the third site.
1.  How did J.C. Symons feel about the girls who “worked in the pit?”

2.  How were those females different from the ones he more than likely associated with in society?
 
 
 
 

Back to Women homepage, go to the Victorian WEBsite.
Choose 3 topics that you have read about that you would like to know more about from your research.  Click on the search button, and enter your ideas in the box.  Summarize your three ideas on this paper.

If there are any graphics or great primary sources you would like included when you turn in information for your web page, please copy down the URL address, or print out a copy for me or Ms. Johnson.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Industrial Revolution: Children
Click on Children.  Click on the first site.  Answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Click on and read about Robert Owen
1.  How was Owen influenced by John Locke and his ideas about the tabula rasa?  Explain your answer.
 
 

2.  What measures did Owen take to halt the abuses of children at his factory at New Lanark?
 
 
 
 

3.  Why would Owen’s partners be concerned about his management practices, and allowing children under ten to go to school, instead of work?
 
 
 

Back to Children homepage, go to the second site.  Click on child labour and read the selections.
1.  Why did the gentleman bring up Dante in his conversation with a cotton factory owner?
 
 
 

BACK.  Click on and READ Flogging in the factories
1.  Describe the straps that overseers used to flog children.
 
 
 

BACK. Click on and READ Conditions in the Mines
1.  What does the illustrator in these pictures use to show the bleak conditions in the mines?
 
 
 
 

Back to Children homepage, go to the third site. To enlarge the pictures, click on them.
1. Why would it be in the best interest of factory owners to keep Furman Owens working all the time, instead of attending school?
 

The Mills
2. Look at the picture on the far right.  Point out three dangers  to the two young men.
 
 

3.  How does the photographer compose the picture to make a political statement about child labour?
 
 
 

find The Factory: Choose 3 pictures.
1. In your own words, write at least 3 healthy, descriptive sentences about each picture and the people in them.
1.
 
 
 

2.
 
 
 

3.
 
 
 
 

Back to Children homepage, go to the Victorian WEBsite.
Choose 3 topics that you have read about that you would like to know more about from your research.  Click on the search button, and enter your ideas in the box.  Summarize your three ideas on this paper.

If there are any graphics or great primary sources you would like included when you turn in information for your web page, please copy down the URL address, or print out a copy for me or Ms. Johnson.
 

Industrial Revolution:  Factory Owners
Click on Factory Owners.  Click on the first site.  Answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
1.  According to Adam Smith, what are the three orders in society?
 
 
 

2.  What does that third order have a general interest to do?
 
 

3.  Why must the government be “hands-off” when it comes to business?
 
 
 

Back to Factory Owners homepage, go to the second site. Find and read Titus Salt under textile industry.
1.  How did Salt’s first factory at Bradford affect workers and the citizens of Bradford alike?
 
 
 

2.  How did Salt change his manufacturing practices from Bradford to Saltaire?
 
 
 

BACK.  Find and read Josiah Wedgwood under Entrepreneurs.
1.  How did Wedgwood increase the output of his workers?
 
 
 

Back to Factory Owner homepage, go to the third site Factory Act.
1.  What were the provisions of the factory act?
 
 
 

2.  How did factory owners feel about the Factory Act.?
 

BACK to Factory Owners homepage, go to fourth site-Andrew Carnegie.
1.  What made Carnegie the most modern model for industry in the world?
 
 
 
 

BACK. Find and read the Lowell Handbook
1.  Why, in your opinion, was it important for workers to be with the rest if the community on the “Sabbath?”
 
 
 

2.  In a paragraph using all the information you have collected, explain why factory owners could make so much money from industry.  Would you want to be a factory owner?  Why or why not?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

BACK to the Factory Owners’ homepage.  Click on the VICTORIAN WEBsite.
Choose 3 topics that you have read about that you would like to know more about from your research.  Click on the search button, and enter your ideas in the box.  Summarize your three ideas on this paper.

If there are any graphics or great primary sources you would like included when you turn in information for your web page, please copy down the URL address, or print out a copy for me or Ms. Johnson.
 
 
 

Industrial Revolution:  Factory Workers
Click on Factory Workers.  Click on the first site.  Answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
Find and read Textile Industry: Cotton Industry
1.  What percentage in Britain’s income was concentrated on cotton in 1802?
 
 

2.  Look at chart 5.  Why do you think cotton production increased while the percentage of people working in the cotton industry fell?
 
 
 

BACK. Click on and read James Watt.
1.How did Watt’s invention change from  1773 to 1781?
 
 
 

2.  What did building the most powerful steam engine allow Watt to create.  (hint: think Bill Gates)  How could he control the market?
 
 
 
 

BACK. Click on and read James Hargreaves
1.  Describe the spinning jenny.
 
 
 
 
 

BACK.  Click on and read Robert Applegarth.
1.  What happened to the Amalgamated Society of Carpenters and Joiners under Applegarth’s leadership?
 
 
 
 

BACK.  Click on and read Mary Gawthorpe.
1.  What political ideology did Gawthorpe support?  Why?
2.  In what unions was Gawthorpe active?
 
 
 
 
 

Back to Factory Workers homepage, go to the second site.
Click on and read Factory Legislation.
1.  Draw and label a timeline in terms of legislation involving workers’ hours
 

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2.  Draw and label a timeline in terms of legislation of women and children.
 

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Go to the Factory Workers’ homepage, go to the third site.  Click on and read Chadwick’s Report on Sanitary Conditions.
1.  According to the report, what steps could be taken to alleviate disease in factories and cities?
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BACK to the Factory Workers’ homepage.  Click on the VICTORIAN WEBsite.
Choose 3 topics that you have read about that you would like to know more about from your research.  Click on the search button, and enter your ideas in the box.  Summarize your three ideas on this paper.

If there are any graphics or great primary sources you would like included when you turn in information for your web page, please copy down the URL address, or print out a copy for me or Ms. Johnson.
 
 
 
 

Industrial Revolution: Mine Workers
Click on Mine Workers.  Click on the first site.  Answer the following questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES.
BACK. Click on and READ Conditions in the Mines
1.  What does the illustrator in these pictures use to show the bleak conditions in the mines?
 
 
 
 

Go back to the Mine Workers’ Homepage, go to the second site.  Click on and read Disasters
1.  Between 1889 and 1910, how many people were killed in mine accidents?
 
 

2.  Just from your own knowledge, is there any field in 2000 that has those kinds of numbers of casualties?  Why or why not?

3.  How did the Coal Mines Act of 1854 begin to change the occurrences of atrocities in mine work?
 
 

4.  Besides her grief, why else did the Queen send her address to the people of Whitehaven after the disaster?  (hint: think public opinion)
 
 

Back to Mine Workers homepage, go to the third site.  Find the pictures of Miners.
Click on 3 of the pictures of miners. Write a 3 sentence, healthy description of the scene and the people in the photograph.
1.
 
 
 
 

2.
 

3.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Back to Mine Workers homepage, go to the fourth site.  Look at the pictures in the left column.
1.  Why were these pictures created?  Who was their audience?
 
 
 

Read the text in the right box.
1.  Describe, in FOUR complete sentences, the life of a door boy.
 
 
 
 

2.  Describe, in FOUR sentences, the life of a driver.
 
 
 
 

3. Describe, in FOUR sentences, the life of a labourer.
 
 
 
 
 

BACK to the Industrial Revolution homepage.  Click on Women.  CLick on Victorian WEBsite.
Choose 3 topics that you have read about that you would like to know more about from your research.  Click on the search button, and enter your ideas in the box.  Summarize your three ideas on this paper.

If there are any graphics or great primary sources you would like included when you turn in information for your web page, please copy down the URL address, or print out a copy for me or Ms. Johnson.