World History II Name: ________________________________Industrial Revolution Poster Date: ________________________________
DIRECTIONS: Either individually or with a partner, you will create a poster that summarizes and analyzes original
historical sources related to the Industrial Revolution. Read the prompt and the documents, prepare your thoughts, then create the poster following the step-by-
step instructions below.
Poster Prompt:
The Industrial Revolution occurred, in part because the capitalist economic system in the late 18th and early 19th century in Great Britain allowed for unregulated business growth and progress. This lack of government regulation also created many problems – especially for the poorest members of society. Communism offered an alternative to the capitalist system.
Which ideology – capitalism or communism – provided the best way to move society forward during the Industrial Revolution?
STEP-BY-STEP INSTRUCTIONS: Write the DBQ prompt at the top of a sheet of chart paper.
Write your thesis (claim) here, then on the poster.
___________________________ was the best economic system to move society forward during the
Industrial Revolution because ___________________________________________________________
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Use your notes to help you write (in your own words) the relevant historical background that would help a reader understand the context of your argument. Write this background on a notecard, and glue that to the poster near your thesis.
Look through the documents and select the ones you plan to use.o If you are working by yourself, you will need to include FOUR documents on your poster.o If you are working with a partner, the two of you will need to include SIX documents on your
poster.
Cut out the documents you chose and glue them to your poster. Use a highlighter to highlight key quotes or information from text-based documents.
For each document, prepare and glue a notecard that includes 1-2 sentences of summary and 3-4 sentences of analysis. Be sure to explain in your analysis why each document supports your thesis.
DOCUMENT A: Graph by The Economist (2013)
DOCUMENT B: The Working Man’s Companion(1831)
You are surrounded… with an infinite number of
comforts and conveniences which had no existence two
or three centuries ago, and those comforts are not used
only by a few, but are within the reach of almost all
men. Every day is adding something to your comforts.
Your houses are better built, your clothes are cheaper,
you have an infinite number of domestic utensils. You
can travel cheaply from place to place, and not only
travel at less expense, but travel ten times quicker than
two hundred years ago.
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DOCUMENT C: Image of steam engine
DOCUMENT D: Alexis de Tocqueville, Memoir onPauperism (1835)
Man, like all socially organized beings, has a natural
passion for idleness. There are, however, two incentives
to work: the need to live and the desire to improve the
conditions of life. Experience has proven that the
majority of men can be sufficiently motivated to work
only by the first of these incentives. The second is only
effective with a small minority. Well, a charitable
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institution indiscriminately open to all those in need, or
a law which gives all the poor a right to public aid,
whatever the origin of their poverty, weakens or
destroys the first stimulant and leaves only the second
intact.
DOCUMENT E: Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations(1776)
Every individual is continually exerting himself to find
out the most advantageous employment for whatever
capital he can command. It is his own advantage,
indeed, and not that of the society, which he has in
view. But the study of his own advantage, naturally, or
rather necessarily, leads him to prefer that employment
which is most advantageous to the society…
The statesman who should attempt to direct private
people in what manner they ought to employ their
capitals, would not only load himself with a most
unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which
could safely be trusted, not only to no single person, but
to no council or senate whatever, and which would
nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who
had folly and presumption enough to fancy himself fit
to exercise it…
DOCUMENT F: Graph by The Economist (2013)
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DOCUMENT G: Andrew Carnegie, Gospel of Wealth(1889)
The contrast between the palace of the millionaire and
the cottage of the laborer with us to-day measures the
change which has come with civilization. This change,
however, is not to be deplored, but welcomed as highly
beneficial. It is well, nay, essential, for the progress of
the race that the houses of some should be homes for all
that is highest and best in literature and the arts, and for
all the refinements of civilization, rather than that none
should be so. Much better this great irregularity than
universal squalor… The "good old times" were not
good old times. Neither master nor servant was as well
situated then as to-day. A relapse to old conditions
would be disastrous to both — not the least so to him
who serves — and would sweep away civilization with
it.
DOCUMENT H: Pamphlet by the Society for Bettering the Condition and Increasing the Comforts of the Poor (1797)
The village contains about 1500 inhabitants, of whom
all who are capable of work are employed in and about
the mills. Of these there are 500 children who are
entirely fed, clothed, and educated by Mr. Dale. The
others live with their parents in the village and have a
weekly allowance for their work. The healthy
appearance of these children has frequently attracted
the attention of the traveler. Special regulations,
adopted by Mr. Dale, have made this factory very
different from the others in this kingdom. Out of the
nearly 3000 children employed in the mills from 1785
to 1797, only fourteen have died.
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DOCUMENT I: The Conditions of the Working Class in England (1844)
Every great town has one or more slum areas where the
workers struggle through life as best they can out of
sight of the more fortunate classes of society. The
slums… are generally unplanned wildernesses of one-
or two-storied houses… The streets are usually
unpaved, full of holes, filthy, and strewn with refuse.
Since they have neither gutters nor drains, the refuse
accumulates in stagnant, stinking puddles. The view of
Manchester is quite typical… In front of the doors, filth
and garbage abounded.
DOCUMENT J: “A Court for King Cholera” political cartoon
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DOCUMENT K: Image of factory conditions
DOCUMENT L: Image of child laborers
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DOCUMENT M: The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels (1848)
The first step in the revolution by the working class is
to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class to
win the battle of democracy. The proletariat will use its
political supremacy to wrest, by degree, all capital from
the bourgeoisie, to centralize all instruments of
production in the hands of the state, i.e., of the
proletariat organized as the ruling class; and to increase
the total productive forces as rapidly as possible…
Nevertheless, in most advanced countries, the following
will be pretty generally applicable:
A heavy progressive or graduated income tax
Abolition of all rights of inheritance
Centralization of the means of communication
and transport in the hands of the state
Equal obligation of all to work. Establishment
of industrial armies, especially for agriculture.
Free education for all children in public schools.
DOCUMENT N: Image of factory pollution
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