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Digital History: The Industrial Revolution [Pdf]

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This site covers both the initial Industrial Revolution in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the second revolution that highlighted new inventions and the businessmen who financed industry. Read brief biographies of some of the business tycoons, and find out what makes an industrial revolution possible. [pdf]

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Concepts
monopolies, eli whitney, john d. rockefeller
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Classroom Considerations
  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information
Common Core
RH.6-8.9