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designed to be folded, cut, glued, & written-on to enhance your

instruction of history. It’s always amazing to see the creativity

some of your students will put into their creations!

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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.

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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.

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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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Interactive Notebook graphic organizers!