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Morino Institute: Promise of a New Communications Age

For Students 9th - 10th
This speech outlines the nature of the communications revolution, establishes a framework for the most important challenges that must be addressed and proposes an Agenda for Action for individuals and groups to take advantage of the...
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Library of Congress

Loc: Collectivization

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Library of Congress provides information on Stalin's domestic policy of rapid industrialization and the collectivization of agriculture for the purpose of erasing all traces of capitalism that results in a totally...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Shoe Factory Horror

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with the 1905 article "Shoe Factory Horror" by The Taney County Republican, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or...
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Bessemer Process

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Provides a summary and detailed facts about Henry Bessemer who invents a process in 1855 to create steel from iron.
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My Hero Project

My Hero: Mary Harris

For Students 3rd - 8th
Mary Harris, better known as "Mother Jones," was an activist for the reform of laber laws. Read about her long life, which she dedicated to the working class and labor movement.
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Robin Chew

Lucidcafe: Sir Henry Bessemer, English Inventor & Engineer

For Students 9th - 10th
Brief biography of Sir Henry Bessemer.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Laboring Poor

For Students 9th - 10th
The plight of the working poor is not a new one. Read about the problems faced by unskilled workers in the mid-1800s.
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Open Door Team

Open Door Web Site: The "Spinning Jenny"

For Students 9th - 10th
This site includes background information on how James Hargreaves got his inspiration for his invention of the "Spinning Jenny." Also discusses the machine's usefulness and controversy.
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Woonsocket Connection: Samuel Slater: Rhode Island's Mill Villages

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictures and text describing the conditions and what it was like working in the Rhode Island mill villages.
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Victorian Context: The Rise of England's Middle Class

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from Victorian Context is an article that talks about the politics of reform in England. It gives information about how these politics effected the influence on the Victorian Literature. It is an informative article that goes...
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Woonsocket Connection: History of Providence

For Students 9th - 10th
A general history of the founding of Providence, (Rhode Island) and the other three towns that together formed Providence Plantation.
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Encyclopedia and Guide to Manchester: The Bridgewater Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the Bridgewater Canal built in 1760 and which was "the forerunner of all modern canals". The canal connected coal mines found in Worsley with Manchester England. By clicking on the names you will get biographical details.
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ClassFlow

Class Flow: Iron Bridge in the 18th Century

For Students 9th - 10th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart includes some brief questions for geography and history teachers about the Iron Bridge in Shropshire, UK and could act as a starting point or for revision of the topic.
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Siteseen

Siteseen: American Historama: Mc Cormick Reaper

For Students 9th - 10th
Read interesting facts about Cyrus McCormick, inventor of the mechanical horse-drawn reaper 1n 1831.
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Boston College

19th Century Architecture: Mills

For Students 9th - 10th
This site presents pictures of the architecture of different mills located in the northeastern part of the United States.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: What Is Child Labour?

For Students 2nd - 8th
Delves into the history of child labor, the causes, and child labor laws.
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Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: Ironbridge Gorge

For Students 9th - 10th
Ironbridge is known throughout the world as the symbol of the Industrial Revolution. It contains all the elements of progress that contributed to the rapid development of this industrial region in the 18th century, from the mines...
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Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
Much of the landscape of Cornwall and West Devon was transformed in the 18th and early 19th centuries as a result of the rapid growth of pioneering copper and tin mining. Its deep underground mines, engine houses, foundries, new towns,...
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Choate Rosemary Hall: Trade Unions

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief description of how labor unions emerged from the Industrial Revolution.
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Curated OER

Samuel Slater

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Samuel Slater, father of the American Industrial Revolution is on this site. Pictures and links are also available.
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Curated OER

Old Slater Mill

For Students 9th - 10th
A biography of Samuel Slater, father of the American Industrial Revolution is on this site. Pictures and links are also available.
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: England and Wales, 1832

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of England & Wales, subtitled "Parliamentary Representation in 1832 Before The Reform Bill." The Reform Act made wide-ranging changes in the electoral system in the United Kingdom due, in part, to the growth of large and...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Spain: Vizcaya Bridge

For Students 9th - 10th
Vizcaya Bridge straddles the mouth of the Ibaizabal estuary, west of Bilbao. It was designed by the Basque architect Alberto de Palacio and completed in 1893. The 45-m-high bridge with its span of 160 m, merges 19th-century ironworking...
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Curated OER

Unesco: United Kingdom: Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal

For Students 9th - 10th
Situated in north-eastern Wales, the 18 kilometre long Pontcysyllte Aqueduct and Canal is a feat of civil engineering of the Industrial Revolution, completed in the early years of the 19th century. Covering a difficult geographical...

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