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instruction of history. It’s always amazing to see the creativity
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Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Foldable
Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your
notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to
represent the term on the other side of the flap.
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Enclosure Movement
Steam Engine
Bessemer Process
Spinning Jenny
Factory
Cottage Industry
Cotton Gin
Mass Production
Directions: The Industrial Revolution began in England in the 1700’s before spreading to Europe and the United
States. Cut out the graphic organizer below and glue the center down in your notebook. On your notebook paper
under each flap, describe why that reason contributed to the Industrial Revolution beginning in England. On
the top of each section, draw a picture that best represents it.
Directions: During the Industrial Revolution, family-based cottage-industries were displaced by the factory system.
Cut out the factory graphic organizer below. On your notebook under the 3 flaps, describe the nature of work in
the factory system, what working conditions were like, and child labor. In the smoke cloud at the top, describe the
effect the factory system had on society.
Directions: As Industrial Revolution progressed, it had a massive impact on almost every aspect of society. In
many ways, it improved society and made people’s lives easier. However, it also had negative impacts in many
areas as well. For each of the effects listed below, determine if it was positive or negative and list it on the
graphic organizer. Then explain why it is positive or negative under the flap.
Population increase
Increased standard of living
Improved transportation
Urbanization
Environmental pollution
Increased education
Poor working conditions
Better medical care
Growth of the middle class
Growth of labor unions
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Directions: After the American Civil War came to an end and the Homestead Act opened up the west,
immigration into the United States shot to an all-time high. Immigrants were expected to join the “Melting Pot”
and become American. Cut out the “Melting Pot” shape below and glue it into your notebook then cut out each
“Visa” and fill it out with a picture and the correct info. Then place these to “melt” into your pot!
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Directions: The Industrial Revolution was one of the greatest periods of development in science and industry.
Improvements to the steam engine allowed for more inventions with motors and soon many other fields saw
impressive new achievements.
Cut out the complete shape below then fold down the 7 flaps along each side. Glue the shape down into your
notebook where indicated then label it “Inventions of the Industrial Revolution” in the center. On the reverse
side of each flap, name the invention, who invented it, and the impact it had.
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Key for Inventions (Clockwise from 1 o’clock)
Light bulb – Thomas Edison
Affordable Camera - George Eastman
Phonograph - Thomas Edison
Telephone – Alexander Graham Bell
Affordable automobile/mass
production/Model T – Henry Ford
Airplane – The Wright Brothers
Steam Engine – James Watt
Directions: The Enclosure Movement and new inventions in farming sent many people to cities in search of jobs
and many children entered the workforce. Cut out the graphic organizer below and fill it out based on your
understanding of child labor in the Gilded Age. Then complete the Venn Diagram comparing children who lived
during the Industrial Era with the lives of children in America today:
Why were children put to work?
Why types of jobs did children have?
What were their working
conditions like?
Children Then Children Today
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Tenements
and Urbanization
in the
Gilded Age
Directions: As
more people
moved from
farms to cities,
the need for
housing
skyrocketed. To
keep up with
demand, cheap
high-rise
apartment
buildings called
“tenements”
were built in
many cities.
Cut out this
tenement, then
behind each
flap, describe
what tenement
buildings were
like, where
they were
found, and
what people
lived in them.
Directions: Capitalism and market competition fueled the Industrial Revolution. However, as it progressed,
unrest led to other economic and political ideas like socialism and communism. Cut along the dotted lines and
place glue only behind the title so that the 3 parts can be folded up and down. Underneath each flap, write
characteristics that apply to that system and then some that apply to both.
Directions: As the Industrial Revolution radically changed society, philosophies developed on how it helped or
hurt society and what should be done about it. Cut out and complete the chart below based on the key beliefs of
each economic/political system.
Who?
Adam Smith Charles Fourier Karl Marx
Philosophy
Private
Property and
Business
Social
Freedoms
Revolution
Who?
Adam Smith Charles Fourier Karl Marx
Philosophy Capitalism Socialism Communism
Property Private ownership of
goods and businesses is
the basis for society.
The government owns or
controls key industries
and enforces regulations
to protect people.
The government owns or
controls all industry and
Religion Freedom of religion. Freedom of religion.
Religion is the “opium of
the masses” – the ruling
classes use religion to give
false hope to the working
class.
Revolution
None – the government
protects industries and
profits from taxes.
People benefit from jobs
and resources.
None – the government
stays in place but works
to support people more
than big business.
The proletariat (workers)
should rise up and
overthrow the
bourgeoisie (upper
classes).
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Directions: Workers organized labor unions and would go on strike in order to get management to listen to their
demands for workers’ rights. Cut out the picket signs below, paste them in your notebook and draw workers
holding them up. Then fill them in to show what workers were seeking from management. At the bottom of
your page, explain what workers were able to achieve through unions and strikes.
Industrial Revolution Vocabulary Foldable
Directions: Cut out this foldable graphic organizer along the dotted lines and then fold and glue into your
notebook. Underneath each term write a definition in your own words on one side and then draw a picture to
represent the term on the other side of the flap.
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Capitalism
Communism
Socialism
Laissez Faire
Urbanization
Tenement
Strike
Labor Union
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for teaching about the Industrial Revolution that fit in perfectly with these
Interactive Notebook graphic organizers!