Industrial Revolution Internet Scavenger Hunt

 

Transportation

 

Technological Changes in Transportation

 

http://americanhistory.si.edu/ONTHEMOVE/themes/vid_wmp_hi_9.html

 

What effect did the invention of the steamboat have on settlement patterns along rivers far upstream from the coastline?

 

How did the invention of the steamboat affect manufacturing?

 

 

Erie Canal

 

http://www.epodunk.com/routes/erie-canal/start.html

 

What lake gained access to the port of New York City after the Erie Canal was built?  What effect do you think this had on settlement patterns in the mid 1800s?  (look at a map of the United States, if necessary.)

 

 

Steamboat Bill sheet music

 

http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/a/a01/a0180/a0180-1-72dpi.html

 

After reading the lyrics to the song “Steamboat Bill” what can you tell about the attitudes of people you might meet traveling up and down the Mississippi River on a steamboat?

 

 

Communication

 

Morse code

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/morsecode/

 

What effect do you think the invention of the Morse code and the telegraph had on communication in the mid 1800s?

 

Write your name in Morse code.

 

 

Agriculture

 

John Deere

 

http://www.deere.com/en_US/compinfo/history/johndeerestory.html

 

What did John Deere invent?  Why was it better than earlier versions?  What impact did John Deere’s invention have on agriculture?

 

Name five products still made by John Deere & Company.

Cyrus McCormick

 

http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/101.html

 

What did Cyrus McCormick invent?  Why was it better than earlier versions?  What impact did Cyrus McCormick’s invention have on agriculture?

 

 

Eli Whitney

 

http://www.invent.org/Hall_Of_Fame/152.html

 

What agricultural machine did Eli Whitney invent?  How did it improve the way things had been done previously?  What impact did Eli Whitney’s invention have on agriculture?

 

What effect did it have on slavery?

 

 

Women and Children

 

Lowell Mill Girls

 

http://www.berwickacademy.org/millgirls/backgrnd.htm

 

Read “Factory Rules” and decide whether you think you could keep up with mill girls.  Why or why not?

 

Child Labor

 

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

 

Click on various topics in the first section titled “Life in the Factory” and write a Moccasin Journal (or a letter to your pen-pal) about what it would be like and how you would feel about working in a textile factory as a child during the Industrial Revolution.  Include plenty of details.