History / Levels 9 and 10 / Historical Knowledge / The making of the modern world / Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914)
Content description
Different experiences and perspectives of individuals or groups and how ideas, beliefs and values changed during the significant events of the Industrial Revolution
Elaborations
describing the effects of steam, gas and electricity on people’s way of life during the Industrial Revolution
investigating the changes in working conditions, for example, longer working hours for low pay and the use of children as a cheap source of labour
investigating the support for Chartism among the poorer classes as a response to deteriorating living and working conditions
explaining how religious groups responded to the ideas in Charles Darwin’s 1859 book On the Origin of Species
investigating sources that record the reactions of new arrivals to other countries in this period, for example, responses to the natural environment and climate
Code
VCHHK131
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