Discusses how Chartism took hold in Britain and the people who championed the movement.

Describes the three Charter petitions that the Chartists presented to Parliament between 1839 and 1848 and the government's response to each one.

The factory system revolutionized manufacturing and the employment of unskilled workers to man the factories. Read about the young children, women, and, later, immigrants who provided the labor to the textile mills and other...

This site from the Victorian Web provides a summary of Edwin Chadwick's report on the sanitary conditions of the working class in 19th century England. Links are also provided for additional information on this subject.

Detailed essay, written in 1842, on women and girl miners' working conditions in Great Britain. Includes the personal accounts of two women miners.

This site has the history of London from 1674-1913. Included in this history is a description of the city in 1775.

Choose the correct answer for each of the five multiple choice questions to evaluate your comprehension of Great Britain's Industrial Revolution.

Outline of the burgeoning inventions and discoveries that characterized a second industrial revolution in the U.S. during the later half of the 19th Century.

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...

Ten multiple choice question quiz is immediately scored and covers industrialization and economic growth in the early 19th century.

This website from the Fordham University provides information about the expansion of the rail system in European countries between 1840 and 1900. Presents graphs to present the information.

In short, readable paragraphs, students can easily follow the history of the invention of the steam engine.

This site from the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers provides information about the history of the Northern Pacific Railway. The route follows the path Lewis and Clark took in 1804. Mentions cost, manpower, and other railroad companies.

Images with accompanying narration on women's work from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution. Exhibit describes the domestic work that women did and continue to perform and also provides information on women...

As America grew, so did its production of agriculture and manufacturing, leading to a rise in workers and their demands. Study the history of worker's rights in America from the Industrial Revolution to today. This collection includes 13...

The Industrial Revolution brought not only new job opportunities but new laborers to the workforce: children. By 1900, 18 percent of all American workers were under the age of 16. 1904, the National Child Labor Committee formed in the...

[Free Registration/Login Required] What is cause and effect? This flipchart explains cause and effect with simple examples leading to more in-depth examples in US history from the Industrial Revolution, immigration, and Westward expansion.

[Free Registration/Login Required] Use the reveal tool and the paint bucket to review famous men of the Industrial Revolution, geography, immigration, etc.

A section of a textbook on European history. It examines what it was like to live in urban settings during the Second Industrial Revolution.

Gives a short summary of the French economy including a discussion of the development of industrialization. Covers French economic history from the period of the French Revolution until present.

Few inventions have affected human history as much as the steam engine. Without it, there would have been no locomotives, no steamers and no Industrial Revolution.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reveals how human population growth has paralleled advances in agriculture, such as the advent of agriculture, and the onset of the Green Revolution.

This article contains interesting facts and information about Urbanization in America in the late 1800s which was fueled by the Industrial Revolution and Industrialization.

Article outlines the rise of industrial unions during the 1920s and 30s and the impact unions had on politics.