The Industrial Revolution is one of the most significant events in all of human history.  It began in Britain in the 18th century and transformed life for millions of people across Europe and North America in the centuries that followed.  For example, it led to the creation of the factory system and the mass production of goods which continue to be important to this day.   Click below to learn more about specific topics related to the Industrial Revolution.

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ARTICLES & SOURCES

|'A Christmas Carol'
​|Agricultural Revolution
​|Causes of the Industrial Revolution
|Child Labor in the Industrial Revolution
​|Classical Liberalism
|Consumerism
|Cottage Industry vs. Factory System
|Democratic Socialism
​​|Economics in the Industrial Revolution
​|Enclosure Movement
​​​|Factory Acts
​|First vs. Second Industrial Revolution
​|Gilded Age in the United States
​​|Impacts of the Industrial Revolution​​
​|Industrial Revolution Overview
​|Industrialization in the United States
|Inventions and Inventors

​|Labor Movement
|Laissez-Faire Capitalism
​|Liberalism
​​|Living Conditions in Industrial Towns
​|Luddites
​​|Marxism
​​|Negatives of the Industrial Revolution
​​|Positives of the Industrial Revolution
​​|Socialism
|Steam Engine
​|Textile Manufacturing
​|Transcontinental Railroad in the USA
|Utopian Socialsim
​|Women in the Industrial Revolution
​|Working Conditions
|Why Was Britain the First?

BIOGRAPHIES

|Adam Smith
|Alexander Graham Bell
​|Charles Dickens
​|Charles Fourier
​|Charles Townshend
|Edmund Cartwright
|Eli Whitney
​|Henry Ford
​|James Hargreaves

​|James Watt
​|Jethro Tull
​|John Kay
|Karl Marx
​|Richard Arkwright
​|Robert Owen
|Thomas Edison​
​|Thomas Malthus
|Thomas Newcomen

​|James Watt
​|Jethro Tull
​|John Kay
|Karl Marx
​|Richard Arkwright
​|Robert Owen
|Thomas Edison​
​|Thomas Malthus
|Thomas Newcomen

RESOURCES & LESSONS

Adam Smith - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes

Adam Smith - Reading, Questions and Key

Karl Marx - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (25 Slides/Pages on his life and ideas!)

Industrial Revolution Child Labor - Questions and Key (8 Pages)

Industrial Revolution Child Labor - PowerPoint with Cloze Notes (64 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution in the USA - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (74 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Impacts - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (62 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Causes - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (44 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Working Conditions - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (36 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Why Britain Was First - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (54 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Living Conditions - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (30 Total Slides)

Industrial Revolution Inventions and Inventors - PowerPoint with Notes Copy (100 Total Slides)

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