PROMPT:Evaluate the positive and negative effects of the

Industrial Revolution.

19th & 20th Century History – Industrial Revolution NAME:

Document Based Question #2:Effects of the

IndustrialRevolution

Directions: This task is designed to test your ability to work with historic documents. As you analyze the documents, take into account both the source of the document and the authorʼs point of view, for they may greatly affect how you use them.First, analyze each document in the Industrial Revolution Primary Source Packet and carefully decide whether this evidence supports a POSITIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution or a NEGATIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution. Below each document write either POSITIVE or NEGATIVE and then a brief (bullet point) explanation as to why/how you would argue this.Then, create a thesis statement (main idea) that answers the prompt/question below, and outline the three body paragraphs of a T-E-A formatted essay. You must create a topic sentence for your essay (introduction) and then a topic sentence for each of the three body paragraphs. Your body paragraph topic sentence should introduce the topic for the paragraph and make a defensible statement. Each body paragraph topic sentence must be supported with two different pieces of evidence (research based on the documents) for a total of six pieces of evidence from the following documents. You should present evidence (research) that pertains directly to the topic above, nothing else – briefly explaining what/how you would be arguing from your evidence. After each piece of evidence, cite the document using (Doc. #1, or #2, etc.). Good

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“Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the

greatest material comforts.”

Industrial Revolution Primary Source Packet

Directions: Analyze each document in this packet and carefully decide whether the evidence supports a POSITIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution or a NEGATIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution. Then, below each document write either POSITIVE or NEGATIVE and then a brief (bullet point) explanation as to why/how you would argue this.

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Ayn Rand (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)

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Document 12The following is a picture is of Henry Ford standing next to one of his Model T automobiles. ca. 1925.

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Document 14The following picture is of a typical working class neighborhood in London, England ca. 1872.

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