Assignments due Today, Dec 8th
Chapter 6 Test Today
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Enduring Understanding
Although the Industrial Revolution made the lives of many people much easier, it also led to problems that are still in evidence today, such as crowded cities, industrial pollution, and the decrease of open space.
Essential Question
How does technological change influence people's lives? society?
Unit Standards
10.3.1. Performance Standard:
Analyze why England was the first country to industrialize.
10.3.2. Performance Standard:
Examine how scientific and technological changes and new forms of energy brought about massive social, economic, and cultural change (e.g., the inventions and discoveries of James Watt, Eli Whitney, Henry Bessemer, Louis Pasteur, Thomas Edison).
10.3.3. Performance Standard:
Describe the growth of population, rural to urban migration, and growth of cities associated with the Industrial Revolution.
10.3.4. Performance Standard:
Trace the evolution of work and labor, including the demise of the slave trade and the effects of immigration, mining and manufacturing, division of labor, and the union movement.
10.3.5. Performance Standard:
Understand the connections among natural resources, entrepreneurship, labor, and capital in an industrial economy.
10.3.6. Performance Standard:
Analyze the emergence of capitalism as a dominant economic pattern and the responses to it, including Utopianism, Social Democracy, Socialism, and Communism.
10.3.7. Performance Standard:
Describe the emergence of Romanticism in art and literature (e.g., the poetry of William Blake and William Wordsworth), social criticism (e.g., the novels of Charles Dickens), and the move away from Classicism in Europe.
