As industrialization and political revolutions changed how people worked and lived, reformers fought to improve conditions for the enslaved, laborers, women, and children.

The Long Nineteenth Century saw radical transformations in people’s identities and relationships as the ways that humans worked and lived transformed.

How did concepts of identity and rights shift in the Long Nineteenth Century? Through networks of reformers, of course!

An individualized tracker for new words encountered in Unit 4. Add to it as the unit progresses.

In Unit 4, continue the routine of building a class word wall, an important visual cue and literacy support.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

Here’s the new Unit Problem! Respond to this based on what you currently know… don’t worry if it’s not much—you’re going to learn a lot more!

In this activity, students examine some common graph shapes and learn how these shapes can help them make predictions about the future.

Children have always worked. During the nineteenth and twentieth century, reform movements sought to limit this, but even today, 265 million children still work.

What did it feel like to work on an assembly line in the 1800s? Why did business owners prefer assembly lines? Explore these questions AND make some greeting cards!

The Industrial Revolution, like pretty much everything else in the Long Nineteenth Century, was closely tied to the rise of capitalism as a new economic system.

Social class was not new to this time period. However, industrialization led to a new social class structure that created extreme divisions between the rich and the poor.

Revisit the Question Parsing Tool and improve your ability to figure out what you are being asked in writing prompts.

The Industrial Revolution and capitalism helped to create a whole new class of people. The proletariat were urban workers who had nothing to sell but their own labor.

Industrialization and the rise of the proletariat created a lot of social problems. But it also helped launch a lot of attempts to solve those problems.

Ottilie Baader became a leader of the German labor reform movement, but she also lived a life of work, not unlike many industrial workers of her time.

How would you feel about child labor as a child working in a factory? What about as the owner of that factory? Take on different roles to write and debate child labor laws.

The idea of childhood did not always exist. How did industrialization change ideas of childhood and child labor?

Work, school, or being ignored—what is a modern child to do? That’s what reformers wanted to know.

Gain insight into two economic systems that will play a big role in this unit. More importantly, get some treats while you’re at it!

Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution each contributed to the growth of the other. But their combined effects created socialism as people struggled to respond to changes.

By now, you should be experts at making claims, but how will you do when you’re asked to make claims about economic systems? Let’s find out!

Be a sneak! Test your understanding of Unit 4 vocabulary by “sneaking” some vocab words into conversation.

This vocab guide provides a summary of the key vocabulary for the unit.

Vocab cards for each of the key words in this unit.

How did the Atlantic slave trade impact Africa? We can study a smaller region to try to determine bigger answers.

Slaving and slavery existed alongside capitalism. But were they rival economic systems, or did they support each other?

Abolition brought to an end a large and profitable system of enslavement that stretched across the Americas and beyond. So why did abolition succeed?

Harriet Forten Purvis was an African-American woman who fought against slavery while pioneering the struggle for women’s suffrage.

Analyze a variety of sources in order to dig into an important question—why was slavery abolished?

The abolition of the legal enslavement of human beings seems like a huge change. But changes can sometimes hide continuities like racialized inequality and exploitation.

Women’s suffrage did not happen equally in all parts of the world at the same time. Examine how women across space and time have fought for their right to vote.

Voting rights are often taken for granted. Yet women had to fight hard for suffrage in a battle spread unevenly across decades and continents.

Empire, nationalism, and industrialization both defined the roles of men and women and created spaces where these new definitions were contested around the world.

Time to test some claims – this time about social class and gender.

How has your understanding changed since the beginning of the unit? Time to revisit the Unit Notebook!

In this activity, you’ll take a look at the Organization and Language and Style rows of the rubric and evaluate a sample student essay. How did the author do?

In this Warm-Up activity, you’ll look closely at the Organization row of the WHP Writing Rubric to practice creating a clear, well-structured essay.

Did industrialization help make life easier or harder? Use the documents in this DBQ to assess the changes industrialization had on society from 1750 to 1914.

These DBQ writing samples provide example essays to help support writing instruction in different ways—use as you see fit in your classroom!

Now that you’ve written, it’s time to revise! This activity will help you identify areas to improve your writing based on the Organization row of the WHP Writing Rubric.

In this short video, Avi Benn (AKA Mary-Ann Bird) explains how poor families in England made the nails that held the British Empire together. For their hard work, nailers were cheated and paid a meager wage. Their grocery list hammers home how hard it must have been to stomach this kind of work.

You might take it for granted today, but clean water was a fantasy for most people during the Industrial Revolution. Everything from sewage to dead bodies polluted Britain’s water. In this short video, Peter Griffin explains how steam engines helped filter foreign bodies from our drinking water.

If you owned a hand-cranked washing machine in Victorian England, you were one lucky woman. If you were like most women, however, you did your washing by hand. In this short video, Avi Benn (AKA Mary-Ann Bird) plunges into the laborious—and sexist—world of Victorian clothes washing.

You’ve learned a lot about reform movements in this unit. How successful were they? Use this LEQ to evaluate the extent to which these movements succeeded.