Assignment Six
The Industrial Revolution
Deadline, Jan. 8, 100 points
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How did the Industrial Revolution affect the 1700s and how does it still affect our world? Image of early railroads Description Between 1700 and 1800 Britain became the leader of the Industrial Revolution. This revolution was the movement from man, wind and animal powered small cottage industry to massive factories powered by coal and made of steel-based equipment. This truly was a revolution because it changed the ways people lived. We may take it for granted today, but this change swept across the European-centered worldThe effects of the Industrial Revolution are part of our everyday lives today. Objectives Students will identify and explain the causes and effects of one aspect of the Industrial Revolution from the list given below. Essential questions
Special instructions You will create a short, but thorough presentation that answers the above questions about the topic you choose. You will also create an essay of a few paragraphs that summarizes the above. You will email those paragraphs to me and they will be posted at the bottom of this web page. You will also email the link to your presentation to me and I will post it above the essays. Your total class time for your presentation will be about 5 minutes. You may work in groups of four or less. You are not required to work in a group. i do not have a minumum number of slides, but you need to make you sure you thoroughly answer the essential questions. I do not think you will need more than six or seven slides, but if you need more, please feel free to do so. Here is the list of topics.
When you are done with your presentation, share it with me at robbinsr@msd321.com You may work in groups of no more than four.
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Vocabulary NA Rubric Presentation Rubric Are the answers essentially correct, but key points are missing? Is the language use correct and easy to follow? Do the answers use generic statements without clear conclusions and are the points vague and difficult to understand? Is the language use obscure and does it contain frequent errors? Are the answers random and vague? Does the language use containg frequent errors? Are the answers pointless statement that could be applied under any set of circumstances?
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The iron and steel industry, Kade My slide is about the improvement of making iron and steel better wich started with inventing coke and then mass producing iron and then steel and using it to shape are world my slide talks about the history of the invention of iron and steel Textile Industry, Megan and Ashton Textile Industry What were the biggest changes that influenced it? Describe its long lasting impacts - all the way to today. Another really big one today is the filter in your vacuum it’s made of similar materials. So they obviously still make things very similar but always find new things to make out of the same material. Even hot air balloons are made very similar. Transportation Changes, Brynlee, Ben, Andrew, McKay Transportation Improvement 1. How and when did your topic begin to be important to the Industrial Revolution? Three ways of transportation improved during the Industrial Revolution. A big portion of the revolution dependant on moving around raw goods. And with all the increased manufacturing of goods, they needed better and faster ways of transportation. Railroads were a big part of transportation that had increased during the revolution. Railroads created many jobs during that time. They needed many people to build railroads, more people to conduct the trains. There was also a huge increase in road quality and quantity. There were a bunch of new roads constructed and rebuilt.
Transportation Improvement, Isaac
Steel manufacturing, Jacob
Transportation during the Industrial Revolution, Ruby
Canal Builiding, Kevin For over a hundred years, people had dreamed of building a canal across New York that would connect the Great Lakes to the Hudson River to New York City and the Atlantic Ocean. After unsuccessfully seeking federal government assistance, DEWITT CLINTON successfully petitioned the New York State legislature to build the canal and bring that dream to reality. “CLINTON’S DITCH,” his critics called it. Construction began in 1817 and was completed in 1825. The canal spanned 350 miles between the Great Lakes and the Hudson River and was an immediate success. Between its completion and its closure in 1882, it returned over $121 million in revenues on an original cost of $7 million. Its success led to the great CANAL AGE. By bringing the Great Lakes within reach of a metropolitan market, the ERIE CANAL opened up the unsettled northern regions of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. It also fostered the development of many small industrial companies, whose products were used in the construction and operation of the canal. Railroads in America can be traced back to 1815 when Colonel John Stevens gained the first charter in North America to build the New Jersey Railroad Company, although it was not constructed until 1832. The NJRR later went on to become part of the Pennsylvania Railroad’s far-reaching network. Colonel Stevens also tested the first type of steam locomotive in 1826, when he showcased his “Steam Waggon” (basically a steam-powered horse carriage) on a small circular track he had built at his estate in Hoboken, New Jersey. Later, in August of 1829 Horatio Allen, a chief engineer for the Delaware & Hudson Canal Company (which went on to become the Delaware & Hudson Railway) tested an early English steam locomotive on a 16-mile stretch of company-owned track between Honesdale and Carbondale, Pennsylvania. The locomotive was named the Stourbridge Lion, a very simple two-axle machine with a vertical boiler. It, along with three other similar designs, was envisioned to handle coal from the D&H mines at Carbondale to Honesdale. Alas, only the Lion was ever tested and ultimately proved too heavy for the track, spending most of its time stored away in a shed.
Improving Transportation, Brigham, Max, Kevin The growth of the industrial revolution depended on better ways of transportation. Three main ways of transportation was by water, roads, and railroads. Transportation was needed because people were starting to live in the west. The cheapest way to travel was by water and it was fast and good to transport goods. So making canals more accessible was the best way to improve transportation. The invention of canals made it much more faster to travel from the Atlantic to the pacific. The lock also made it easier to bring ships to higher or lower land. The train and railroads made traveling from the Atlantic to the Pacific only a few days instead of a few weeks. Which made it easier to transport goods and people.
Transportation Improvement Summary, Hannah I did my part of the transportation improvement project on how and why the transportation improvement began to be important to the Industrial Revolution. The transportation improvements made in mainly the 1800’s were very important to the American people and eventually the world because roads used to travel by foot, by animal, or by cart were becoming more and more unreliable and not the easiest to use. Also, people began to rely on goods and raw materials imported from other places, making the need for better transportation even more important. Layers of crushed rock were eventually used to improve the roads, however, in the spring they would be muddy, making the roads still unreliable. Horses would be used to pull cars on steel rails. As the push for better transportation continued to grow, a new invention — the first steam powered boat — was made in 1807, changing the lives of many American people for the better. Canals and rivers were widened and deepened for the assurance of more travel by the boats. The steamboats, just like the roads, soon became undependable because the places where they would stop was never set in stone. They also took more work, they took more money, and they couldn’t even be used in the winter because the water would be frozen. They needed something more. Here come the locomotives! Trains were just what the people needed even if they didn’t know it. They would lead to faster travel for goods and people, would provide jobs for many people, and would bring growth to many people and industries. The first successful steam-powered train was made in 1814. The use of trains completely skyrocketed in the USA, therefore, railroads were built throughout the whole country. The Central Pacific line was made to connect the East and West coast’s lines. To make the locomotives even more reliable people started to replace the old wood or iron rails with steel ones and started to use different fuels like diesel. These advances in transportation were so vital to our world. These improvements eventually spread throughout the USA, Europe, and the world leaving long lasting impacts. Without trains and advances made in the 1800’s, we would not have the amazing transportation we have today.
The iron and steel industry, Kade My slide is about the improvement of making iron and steel better wich started with inventing coke and then mass producing iron and then steel and using it to shape are world my slide talks about the history of the invention of iron and steel And how it was used and mass produced
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