Industrialization Unit - Urbanization Simulation

You will receive 1 piece of paper to use for simulation. Follow instructions. Do not worry if you “mess up”. Do your best to follow instructions.

Label at top: NB Assignment #1: Urbanization - From Village to City. You will use the front to draw and the back to write.

Round 1 Village Established

Draw:1 River across the paper (about inch wide and runs across the paper)

2 Bridges 4 Roads

The 20 locations below along a the road:15 houses

1 Church1 Cemetery

2 Stores1 Pub

Select one house to be yours & label it.

Round 2Enclosures

The community land for farms in your town have been bought by a larger and wealthy landowner who has

enclosed the areas to grow crops on a bigger scale.

Draw:A broken-line circle (about size of your fist). Label

this area “Enclosed Agricultural Land”

Any houses or buildings located in this circle need to be relocated and nothing else may be drawn in this area.

Round 3 Agricultural Revolution

There has been an “agricultural revolution” as a result of innovations such as crop rotation and selective breeding

along with new farm machines such as the seed drill. Because of the resulting increases in food production from these

innovations, less farmers are needed and more rural people relocate to your village.

Now draw:

1 Road10 Houses1 Church

1 Pub1 Bridge1 Store

Round 4 Textile Revolution

Factories come to your village and make it a town. In the mid 1750’s a number of machines are invented that greatly

speed up the production of cloth (textiles). These technological developments revolutionize the spinning of cotton & wool and can spin/weave cloth 100 times faster than what had been done

by hand. Some wealthy merchants (Capitalists) pool their money together to buy land and new textile machines in to build

a factory in your village that is powered by a water wheel.

Draw:1 Factory (next to the river)

1 Capitalist’s Estate (where factory owner lives)

Round 5 Canal Revolution

Workers are needed to work in the new factory. Since individual people cannot compete with the speed of the weaving machines and

have lost their land to the enclosure movement, many of these unemployed come to your village to work for at the factory.

Draw: 15 Houses 1 Pub 5 Apartments (Tenements)

1 Store 1 Church 1 Bridge Any necessary roads

Also, a new development in transportation comes to your village. This innovation could transport 100 times what one horse could

transport on the road. This innovation is the canal. Canals are man made rivers that significantly reduced the prices of transportation.

Draw:1 Canal (must run from river to edge of paper)

Prediction

Totals so far. . .40 Houses 1 Capitalist’s Estate 4 Stores

5 Apartments 4 Bridges 3 Pubs1 Factory 3 Churches 1 Cemetery

On the back of your paper: Write “Prediction” and briefly explain what you predict will happen to your village in the future. What might be good & bad about the future of your village?

Round 6 Factors of Production (Land, Labor & Capital)

Come Together

Since the profits from this textile factory are enormous, other capitalists start investing their

money and new factories are built. These factory owners are called capitalists because they offered their money (Capital) to finance the buying of raw

materials, machines, buildings (Land) and wages to pay the workers (Labor).

Draw:5 Factories (total of 6 factories so far)

Round 7 Village Becomes a Town

Word has reached surrounding villages of the new sources of employment in your factory town. More and

more people move to your town. Housing is in great demand and is constructed quickly with little direction.

Draw quickly:10 Houses

20 Apartments (Tenements)

Round 8 Social Impacts of Industrialization

Women and children are encouraged to work in factories. Families need the extra money and factory owners like women

& child workers because they are paid less. The average workday began at 6 am and ended at 7 pm with only a 30

minute break for lunch. Fewer children attend school since families need their wages to pay bills.

After work, mainly male workers stop at pubs to relax, socialize and drink alcohol.

Draw:4 Pubs

1 School

Round 9 Transportation Revolution - Steam Engine & Railroads

Inventor James Watt introduces the Steam Engine, which is a cheap and convenient source of power to run machines. The

Steam Engine makes it possible for more factories that produce more goods and to transport those good more efficiently on newly developed railroads. The steam engine runs on coal

which produces significant amounts of smoke.

Draw:3 Railroads

10 Factories, with smoke & not near river

3 Coal Mines (coal mines need to be connectedto factories via canals or railroads; if a building

is in the way, relocate it.)

Round 10 Town Becomes a City

As wages are higher in towns than in rural areas, the population of workers in town keeps growing making them cities. Many of these

newcomers work on the construction of the railroad lines, factories and coal mines. Factories provide money to workers and cheaper products for

them to buy so new stores also open in the growing city.

Draw:5 Houses

10 Apartments (Tenements)5 Stores

2 Cemeteries5 Pubs

1 Church3 Schools

Due to the pressure of urban growth, eliminate one-half of the Enclosed Agricultural Land for new construction

Round 11Urban Problems Develop

About 50,000 people now reside in your city. Soon there is a surplus of workers. Capitalists, wanting to maximize their profits, hire children and women before men because they

perform the same work for 1/2 to 1/4 the wage of men. Since the children find themselves doing factory work and coal

mining schools lose enrollment.

As a result of growing male unemployment, the crime rate begins to soar. Family life is disrupted and alcoholism reaches

epidemic proportions.

Erase: 1 SchoolDraw: 4 Pubs & 2 Jails

Round 12More Urban Problems

Due to a lack of government regulation and an abundant source of desperate workers, the working conditions in

factories become very dangerous. Many workers contract deadly lung disease or are injured in factories.

Factory owners fire those who complain and replace those who are to sick/injured to work.

Coal smoke and factory wastes not only sicken workers, but pollutes the cities air & water

Draw:2 Cemeteries

1 HospitalsLightly shade in the entire sheet (including river)

Village to City: Urbanization Reflection

Life is pretty bad now in your city.

On Back, Label “Urbanization Reflection” and answer this question:

What kind of responses do you think people might try to make to improve quality of life?