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Global Industrialization

Driving Question: How did industrialization spread to new regions of the world?

What happens when industrialization goes global? As you’ll see, change doesn’t always equal progress. Explore how industrialization reached new regions—and the effects it left in its wake. You live in a world that is almost completely industrialized. Now you get to investigate how it got that way.

Learning Objectives

  1. Assess the scale of the Industrial Revolution and its impact on various regions of the world.
  2. Evaluate how the Industrial Revolution spread to a variety of global regions and how different nations adapted to changes in communities, networks, and production and distribution.
  3. Use the historical thinking practices of comparison and causation to analyze how industrialization happened in two different regions and explore how it affected migration.

Vocab Terms:

  • capitalist
  • deindustrialization
  • enslave
  • exploitation
  • imperialism
  • migration
STEP 1

Opener: Global Industrialization

Would you stop the wheels of change if you could? Explore some hypotheticals to decide what—if anything—you’d do different if given the chance.

STEP 2

How Did Industrialization Change the World?

Teaching Tools

Want to dive deeper into the transformations sparked by the Industrial Revolution? Check out this blog post External link on industrialization and its impact on the modern world.

The Industrial Revolution transformed the lives of everyone living in Britain. But the transformation of the British economy had consequences for people in every corner of the world.

STEP 3

Industrial Migration

Teaching Tools

Need a quick refresher on teaching causation? The Causation One-Pager has you covered with clear tips and strategies.

 Don’t just take our word for it—this blog post External link , written by an experienced OER Project teacher, shares insights and strategies for teaching causation.

Industrialization allowed people to move around the globe in ways that were previously unimaginable. Read the article to explore the factors that caused migration, and then take what you’ve learned to put your causation skills to use in the activity.

STEP 4

Continuity and Change Over Time

Teaching Tools

This is your students’ first encounter with CCOT in the course—grab a quick refresher with the CCOT One-Pager.

STEP 5

Closer: Global Industrialization

Extension Materials
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Dive deeper on the impacts of industrialization around the world with the resources below, including a DBQ prompt comparing industrialization in Britain and India.
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Impacts in India

Doing business with Britain seemed like a good idea for India at the time, but one country’s industrial advances can have the reverse effect on another.