Name
Mr. Sallese
Date
AP World History
INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION WEBQUEST
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Directions!
Events of the Industrial Revolution (and the Agricultural Revolution before it) have been divided into five
topics, each with subtopical questions. Use the websites below (and any others you find along the way while
searching the internet) to comprehensivley answer each question.
Recommended Websites:
Encyclopedia.com and the Industrial Revolution: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-IndustR.html
Lecture 17: The Origins of the IR in England: http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/lecture17a.html
Causes of the Industrial Revolution: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/lect/mod15.html
IR Links: http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-IndustrialRevolution.htm
Links for Labor Conidtions: http://www.fidnet.com/~weid/industrialrevolution.html
I. Agricultural Revolution (of the 1600s) – Define!
1. What technological advances took place during the Agricultural Revolution?
2. Describe the “Open Field System”
3. Define: “Enclosure System.” How was it different than the Open Field System?
4. How did crop rotation help increase food production?
5. How did the Agricultural Revolution help cause the Industrial Revolution?
II. Why England?
1. Define: Industrial Revolution
2. Discuss the population explosion that occurred in England in the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries. What happened? Give numbers. Why did it occur? What were the effects?
3. What natural resources did England have that helped it being the industrial revolution? How did
these resources help? Include geography!
4. How did the English economy and its capital (money for investing) help start the Industrial
Revolution?
III. Inventions of the Industrial Revolution – provide a description and picture for each of the
following:
1. Flying Shuttle
2. Power Loom
3. Power Loom
4. Cotton Gin
5. Steam Engine
IV. Industrial Revolution’s Effect on Society
1. Define: Domestic System/Cottage Industry
2. Define “urbanization.” How, why and what effect did it have on the Industrial Revolution?
3. What role did the lower classes play in the IR? What were the working like for these people?
4. What were the living conditions like for the lower classes?
Go to: http://www.victorianweb.org/history/chadwick2.html and read the Chadwick Report.
Summarize the living conditions of the poor as written in the report.
5. How did the Middle Class play a crucial role during the Industrial Revolution in England?
V. Reactions to the Industrial Revolution
1. Who was Karl Marx? Describe his book, “The Communist Manifesto.”
2. How did the Industrial Revolution cause Marx to write this “Communist Manifesto”?
3. Who was Adam Smith and what book did he write? Briefly summarize the book.
4. What did he (Smith) mean by Laissez-Faire economics?