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Do First (3 minutes) and Share Out (2 minutes)

What does the term Industrial Revolution mean to you?
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Objective (1 minute): SWBAT articulate answers to the Essential Questions of Unit 7.

Mastery (1 minute): You will need to answer each of the Unit Questions of Unit 7
Agenda (1 minute)

Do First and Share Out (5 minutes)

Lesson Overview (2 minutes)

Unit Questions (12 minutes)

Unit 7 Reading (11 minutes)

Key Ideas

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Part 1: Unit 7 Essential Questions:

Respond to the questions below with your opinion and be ready to share out.

Does greater power give one country the right to dominate another, even with good
intentions?

Is economic growth a good thing?

How can people fight back against being controlled?

What is the purpose of industry and commerce?

Which is more valuable, prosperity or the ability to

make your own choices?

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Part II: The Industrial Revolution (6 minutes)

Unprecedented (adj.)

Without a precedent.
Precedent literally means
A time when this
happened before.

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes that occurred in the period from
about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840. This transition included going from hand production
methods to machines, new chemical manufacturing and iron production processes, improved efficiency of
water power, the increasing use of steam power and development of machine tools. The transition also
included the change from wood and other bio-fuels to coal. The Industrial revolution began in England and
within a few decades spread to Western Europe and the United States.
The Industrial Revolution marks a major turning point in history; almost every aspect of daily life was
influenced in some way. Most notably, average income and population began to exhibit unprecedented
increases. In the words of Nobel Prize winner Robert E. Lucas, Jr., "For the first time in history, the living
standards of the masses of ordinary people have begun to undergo sustained growth ... Nothing remotely like
this economic behavior has happened before".
1. When did the Industrial Revolution begin and when did it end? _________________________________

2. Where did the Industrial Revolution take place? (Start with where it began and then say where it spread)
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3. What is the significance of the Industrial Revolution?
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Part III: Imperialism

Domination and
Subordination (n.)
Raw materials and
manufactured goods (n.)

A strong country and a

weak country (dominant
and subordinate)
Cotton is a raw material and
a shirt is a manufactured
good.

To assimilate (v.)

To give up your own culture

and adopt the culture of the
majority

Imperialism is the creation and/or maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural, and territorial relationship,
usually between states (countries) and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and
subordination." This was generally done in order to acquire raw materials for manufacturing in the home
country and to open up new lands where manufactured goods could be sold.
It is often considered in a negative light, as merely the exploitation of native people in order to enrich a small,
wealthy group. It may also be founded upon a cosmopolitan view of humanity, that promotes the spread of
civilization to allegedly "backward" societies to elevate living standards and culture in conquered territories,
and allowance of a conquered people to assimilate into the imperial society, examples being the Roman
Empire and British Empire.

1.

What is Imperialism?
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2. What does it mean to assimilate?

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