Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?

Name: ____________________________________________

The Industrial Revolution: Gallery Walk

Station 1: Working Class Homes & Neighborhoods
____________& ________________ No running water or toilets Human & factory waste emptied into waterways Diseases like cholera, typhus, smallpox and dysentery spread due to poor sanitation ________________ Apartment for Entire Family Built Fast & Cheap Located Near Factory Chimney smoke, waste from factories Dark, Narrow Streets Unsafe

Station 2: Life as Coal Miner

_______________________ Flooding Gas Explosions Mine Collapse ____________________________ Respiratory Illnesses Women & Children Workers Vulnerable population

Station 3: Life as a Mill Worker

______________ & ______________ Fumes, chemicals, heat Standing in one place damages bones & joints __________________________ (i.e. Guard Rails) Child Labor Employ orphans dont have to pay them

Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?

Station 4: Middle Class

Social Class of ________________________________ Professionals, business people & wealthy landowners Enjoyed Comfortable Standard of Living Time & Money Available For: ______________________________ Education (Gender Differences) Domestic help Better diet Fashion, housing Women Lack Rights Cant: own property, divorce, vote, write a will

Station 5: A Modest Proposal

__________________________ Plight of Tenant Farmer in Country Response to Anti-Irish / Catholic Sentiment Mocks the _______________________________________ __ Lack of a Social Safety Net

Station 6: Art & Literature

Romanticism _____________________ view of new technology Changes would elevate society Encouraged individualism, freedom, and emotion Images reflect __________ & _________________ view Realism Anti-Romanticism Images Reflect _______________________ & ________________________ Poor / Working Class Were Subjects Often depicted people at work

Aim: What was life like during the Industrial Revolution?

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Gothic Novel: Extension of Romanticisms celebration of emotion terror as the most extreme form of emotion Death and destruction monster wreaks symbolizes the ________________________ of industrialization Frankensteins obsession with science is motivated by his desires for fame and profit - he fails to consider the consequences of his actions

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens Calls attention to negative impact of the Poor Law, child labor, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of 'street children'

New Poor Laws (1834)

Send poor to workhouses to prevent all but the very hopeless from seeking assistance Poverty was the fault of the individual and should be punished Inmates were forced to work hard, paid little and conditions were terrible