Industrial Revolution

There are two tasks for this webquest.  Make sure you read it carefully!

Inventions/Innovations:

1. Lowell Mills/System
2. Farm Equipment (Steel Plow)
3. Morse Code
4. Cotton Gin
5. Tom Thumb Locomotive 

The Lowell Mills/System 

Task:  During the 1800s, America witnessed a change in America: factories were hiring women.  One of such factories was the Lowell Mills in Massachusetts. Your task is to go to the site below.  This website includes interpreted journal entries of women who worked at the Lowell Mills.  Read the journal entries and complete the task:

http://inquiryunlimited.org/bk/sbks/jh/textilesjh.html

1. Discuss how the Lowell Mills treated those injured or sick on the job.
2. Do you think how the Mills treated the injured was right or wrong, Why? 

Farm Equipment

Task:  As many of you already know, John Deere is a popular brand of farm equipment today.  Check out this site below to help further your understanding of John Deere by answering the questions.

  http://invent.org/inductee-detail/?IID=39

3. Explain why John Deere and his partner, Leonard Andrus, developed the steel plow.  How do you know that his invention was successful?

Task:  Another famous inventor was Cyrus McCormick with the mechanical reaper.  Go to the site below and complete the following question below:

http://gardenofpraise.com/ibdcyrus.htm

4. List one way the reaper improved farming the America.

Morse Code

Task:  In 1837, Samuel F.B. Morse created a style of communication that cities and naval ships use to transmit messages.  The machine sent long and short pulses of electricity along a wire; the messages were in dots and dashes!  In fact, you have probably seen this in movies such as Titanic to transmit messages of distress (sinking in the middle of the ocean). 

http://www.glassgiant.com/geek/morse/

5. Type in your name and click listen to hear your name in Morse Code.  Use the Morse Code Alphabet at the bottom of the page to write down your first and last name in Morse Code.
6. Give an example of how being able to communicate over long distances would help Americans.

Cotton Gin and Slavery

Task: Visit the next site to read information regarding the Cotton Gin.

http://www.ushistory.org/us/22b.asp

7. The impact of the Cotton Gin caused what to happen to cotton production? How was this important to the south?
8. Although a triumphant agriculture ingenuity, what negative impact did the Cotton Gin have on the Southern United States? Why?

Locomotive/Steam Engine

Task:  Railroads and steamboats would be a huge factor in changing America during the 1st Industrial Revolution.  The railroad boom started with the first steam-powered locomotive, the Tom Thumb.  Go to the site below to learn a little more about ol’ Tom Thumb.

http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/wwww/us/tomthumbdef.htm

9. Why do you think using stream-powered locomotives would be better for the railroad than using horses?
10. How will the locomotive benefit Americans?

Conclusion (Complete in the Space Provided Below)

Task: 

1.  Summarize what you learned by completing this web quest in 4 to 5 sentences.

2.  Which of the inventions covered in this web quest do you think was most important to helping the USA become an industrial power?  Why?

3.  How did the Industrial Revolution signify a social and economic change in America?

In this scenario you will be divided into seven advertising agencies. Each agency will be assigned a product to sell the class. This invention is brand new and it's existence was unthinkable prior to the industrial revolution. The information you use for this must be factual. You will use the links provided for your particular invention. The project which will include:

1. A full page advertisement containing
   1. The name of the invention
   2. Who the invention is supposed to help
   3. How will the invention make life easier
   4. When was the invention invented
2. A brief sales pitch to the class

References:

• Flying Shuttle
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blflyingshuttle.htm
  • http://www.saburchill.com/history/chapters/IR/009.html
  • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/211694/flying-shuttle

• Spinning Jenny
  • http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/ss/Industrial_Revo_3.htm
  • http://spartacus-educational.com/TEXjenny.htm
  • http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/560162/spinning-jenny

• Spinning Frame
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blspinningframe.htm
  • http://spartacus-educational.com/TEXframe.htm
  • https://www.britannica.com/technology/drawing-frame

• Power Loom
  • http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventors/a/power_loom.htm
  • http://inventors.about.com/od/indrevolution/ss/Industrial_Revo_7.htm
  • http://spartacus-educational.com/TEXloom.htm

• Steam Engine
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamengine.htm
  • http://americanhistory.about.com/od/industrialrev/p/steamengine.htm
  • http://www.his.com/~pshapiro/steam.engines.html

• Steam Locomotive
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrailroad.htm
  • http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/tomthumb.htm
  • http://spartacus-educational.com/SteamRailways.htm

• Steamboat
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamship.htm
  • http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blfulton.htm
  • http://www.american-inventor.com/robert-fulton.aspx