Urban Game
WELCOME TO: THE
YEAR 1700
 A River across your paper connecting east to west (should be about an
inch wide)
 Draw a wooden bridge across the river
 4 roads originating from each direction
(north, south, east, west)
 10 houses
 Church
 Cemetery
 Store
 Pub
 Coal Mine
 Lots of trees everywhere (called COMMONS)
Round 1 - 1745
 1 nice home anywhere
 Canal (must run parallel to the
river)
Round 2 - 1750
 7 houses
Round 3 - 1760
 1 nice house
Round 4 - 1773
 1 factory (the cotton factory must be placed on the
river bank not the canal; canal water is not swift
enough to generate the power to move parts of the
water frame)
Richard Arkwright’s
Water Frame
Round 5 - 1774
 5 houses
 1 church
 1 pub
 1 store
 additional roads
 1 bridge
Round 6 - 1774 cont…
 5 factories (remember they have to be on the river)
Round 7 - 1780
 5 tenements
Industrial Revolution
Tenements
Round 8 - 1781
 1 store
 1 pub
 1 church
 1 school for boys
Round 9 - 1782
 2 pubs
Round 10 - 1783
 2 large special luxury homes
Round 11 - 1785
 10 more factories (can be away from river)
 1 huge monster house
James Watt’s Steam Engine
Round 12 - 1800
 1 new coal mine
 iron bridge to replace the old wooden bridge
Round 13 - 1815
 Cemetery
Reflection Questions
 Describe what it was like to work in the mines
 What were the ages of people that worked in the mines?
 How did life change for these workers during the
industrial revolution?
 Why do you think it was necessary for people to work in
such conditions?
Life in the coal mines
Round 14 - 1820
 1 railroad (connecting your factory
district to the outer coal mining
region)
Round 15 - 1827
 1 jail
 2 pubs
Round 16 - 1837
 Street lights
Round 17 - 1838
 2 hospitals
 1 cemetery
Round 19 - 1840
 1 railroad line
Round 20 - 1842
 20 houses
 5 tenements
 2 stores
 1 church
 5 factories
 1 pub
 1 huge nice house
Round 21 - 1845
 1 museum
 1 university
 2 theaters
 2 private schools
Round 22 - 1850
 3 cemeteries
 1 jail
 3 more hospitals….all to
accommodate the victims of
urban life.