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OpenStax

Open Stax: A Vibrant Capitalist Republic

For Students 11th - 12th

By reading this section of a chapter on "Industrial Transformation in the North," students will be able to explain the process of selling western land, discuss the causes of the Panic of 1819, and identify key American innovators and...

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Have Fun With History

Have Fun With History: Industrial Revolution

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

Multi media learning module with videos for students and teachers to learn about the Industrial Revolution and how America moved from and agricultural society to an urban machine-based production in the 19th Century.

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Digital History

Digital History: The Industrial Revolution [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards

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...

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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture

For Students 9th - 10th

Article outlining the extraordinary achievements in agriculture during the 1800s.

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Enchanted Learning

Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions From the 1700s

For Students 3rd - 6th

Use this site to learn more about early inventors and inventions from the 18th century. This web page offers text and images on various inventors and their inventions. You can also access information about inventors and inventions from...

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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: The Rise of American Industry

For Students 5th - 8th Standards

The Industrial Revolution came to America, smuggled in by Samuel Slater, who brought plans for a cotton-spinning mill. See how the growth of industry led to the growth of corporations, the growth of the nation geographically, and the...

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Read Works

Read Works: The Industrial Revolution: Making Cloth

For Teachers 4th

[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passages shares facts about the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...

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PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: Industrial Revolution in America [Pdf]

For Teachers 6th - 8th Standards

A lesson plan from the producers of the 16-episode PBS series "Freedom: A History of US" that looks at the technological advances of early nineteenth-century America and the birth of the Industrial Revolution in America.

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Digital History

Digital History: Early Industrialization

For Students 9th - 10th

Advances in technology affected manufacturing in the North and farming in the South. Read about how America turned from a country where most products were made in the home to an economic power that used factory production.

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US National Archives

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 1820s)

For Students 9th - 10th

Links to primary source documents from the revolution to the new nation.

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Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions

For Students 5th - 8th

The industrial revolution in America spawned the inventions of many inventors, who improved technology in many different areas. See how transportation, agriculture, and communications were transformed because of these inventions.

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Curated OER

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th

This site provides information on American inventors Benjamin Franklin, Robert Fulton, Eli Whitney, Thomas Jefferson, Isaac Singer, Wilbur Wright, Thomas Alva Edison, Elias Howe, and Alexander Graham Bell. It offers pictures from and...

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

For Students 9th - 10th

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: Grove Street Cemetery

For Students 9th - 10th

Final resting place of many Yale and New Haven notables including Roger Sherman, Noah Webster and Eli Whitney.

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Engines of Our Ingenuity: Interchangeable Parts

For Students 9th - 10th

A fun-to-read essay on the history of interchangeable parts. Find out that Eli Whitney was not the first to have this manufacturing idea, but he capitalized on it.

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Open Stax: A Vibrant Capitalist Republic

Have Fun With History: Industrial Revolution

Digital History: The Industrial Revolution [Pdf]

American History: Outlines: Revolution in Agriculture

Enchanted Learning: Inventors & Inventions From the 1700s

U.s. History: The Rise of American Industry

Read Works: The Industrial Revolution: Making Cloth

Wnet: Thirteen: Wake Up, America: Industrial Revolution in America [Pdf]

Digital History: Early Industrialization

Nara: Teaching With Documents: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 1820s)

U.s. History: Inventors and Inventions

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Smithsonian Education: Spotlight Biography Inventors

Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in Connecticut: Grove Street Cemetery

Engines of Our Ingenuity: Interchangeable Parts

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