The Industrial Revolution "DBQ"

Explore the Industrial Revolution's complex impacts! Analyze historical documents and decide if they show positive or negative effects, then justify your reasoning.

This task is designed to test your ability to work with historic documents. As you analyze the documents, take into account both the source of the document and the author's point of view, because they may greatly affect how you use them.Directions: Analyze each document and carefully decide whether the evidence supports a POSITIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution or a NEGATIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution. Then, below each document write either POSITIVE or NEGATIVE and then write a brief explanation as to why you would argue this. DOCUMENT #1 POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #2 - excerpt from the Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure."I have visited many factories, both in Manchester and the surrounding districts, during a period of several months and I never saw a single instance of corporal punishment inflicted on a child. The children seemed to be always cheerful and alert, taking pleasure in using their muscles. The work of these lively elves seemed to resemble a sport. Conscious of their skill, they were delighted to show it off to any stranger. At the end of the day's work they showed no sign of being exhausted." POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #3 POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #4 - excerpt from the Working Man's Companion"You are surrounded, as we have constantly shown you throughout this book, with an infinite number of comforts and conveniences which had no existence two or three centuries ago and those comforts are nit used by a few, but are within reach of almostall 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 almost two hundred years age." POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #5 POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #6 - excerpt from The Conditions of the Working Class in England by Friedrich EngelsEvery 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. Wherever possible these have cellars which are also used as dwellings. 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. The main river is narrow, coal-black and full of stinking filth and rubbish which it deposits on its bank…. One walks along a very rough path on the river bank to reach a chaotic group of little, one -story,one- room cabins…. In front of the doors, filth and garbage abounded…. POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #7 - political cartoon POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #8 - Henry Ford standing next to his Model T POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so? DOCUMENT #9 POSITIVE or NEGATIVE? Why do you say so?