Continuity and Change in the Industrial Age
Driving Question: To what extent did industrialization bring change to societies around the world between 1750 and 1900 CE?
The extensive revolutionary changes that occurred between 1750 and 1900 shaped the world we live in today. While you learned about worldwide changes in this unit, in this lesson you’ll narrow your focus to Britain and India as you build an argument using primary and secondary sources.
Learning Objectives
- Explain the extent to which industrialization brought change from 1750 to 1900.
- Use the historical reasoning process of CCOT to assess the most significant changes and continuities that took place as a result of the revolutions of the nineteenth century.
Vocab Terms:
Do your students need help perfecting their thesis statements and contextualization paragraphs? Have them critique and improve the sample student essay in this activity.
It’s time to return to the Thesis and Contextualization rows and see if the sample essay has an argument that is worth arguing over!
If students are struggling with how to organize their DBQs, share this helpful DBQ Organizer as they prepare to write their essays.
Which country felt the impact of industrialization more—Britain or India? Analyze the sources, and then build your argument.
