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An NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People
ILA Childrens and Young Adults Book AwardIntermediate Nonfiction
The Industrial Revolution for Kids introduces a time of monumental change in a revolutionary way. Learn about the new technologies and new forms of communication and transportation that impacted American lifethrough the people who invented them and the people who built, operated, and used them. In addition to wealthy industrialists such as John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie and ingenious inventors such as Eli Whitney and Alexander Graham Bell, youll learn about everyday workers, activists, and kids. The late 19th and early 20th centuries come to life through the eyes of hardworking Chinese immigrants who built the Transcontinental Railroad; activist Isaac Myers, an African American ship caulker who became a successful businessman and labor union organizer; toiling housewife Hannah Montague, who revolutionized the clothing industry with her popular detachable collars and cuffs; and many others who help tell the human stories of the Industrial Revolution. Twenty-one hands-on activities invite young history buffs to experience life and understand the changing technologies of this important era.
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For Duke and Lori
The Girls Kim, Lindy, Cindy, and Dixie
And always for Richard L. Wohlgamuth
For educator resources and more, please visit www.cherylmullenbachink.com
2014 by Cheryl Mullenbach
All rights reserved
First edition
Published by Chicago Review Press, Incorporated
814 North Franklin Street
Chicago, Illinois 60610
ISBN 978-1-61374-690-5
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Mullenbach, Cheryl.
The industrial revolution for kids : the people and technology that changed the world : with 21 activities / Cheryl Mullenbach. First edition.
pages cm. (For kids series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-61374-690-5 (paperback)
1. Industrial revolutionUnited StatesJuvenile literature. 2. IndustriesUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 3. Technological innovationsEconomic aspectsUnited StatesHistoryJuvenile literature. 4. Capitalists and financiersUnited StatesJuvenile literature. 5. BusinesspeopleUnited StatesJuvenile literature. I. Title.
HC105.M85 2014
330.97308dc23
2014016755
Cover and interior design: Monica Baziuk
Cover images: (front, clockwise from upper right) vintage hand sewing machine, Shutterstock/Againstar; roller skater, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LCUSZ62-55467; workers building the Boonsborough Turnpike Road, courtesy of the Federal Highway Administration, US Department of Transportation; skyscrapers, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, Detroit Publishing Company Collection, LC-D4-13088; newsgirls in Delaware, 1910, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-75164; train car, Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-04545; (back, clockwise from upper right) young radish seller in Cincinnati, Ohio, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, National Child Labor Committee Collection, LC-DIGnclc-03199; early Ford car, courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZ62-21222
Interior illustrations: Jim Spence
Printed in the United States of America
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T HANKS TO MY EDITOR, Lisa Reardon, at Chicago Review Press. Also, thanks to Christina Stern for her professional insights. Special gratitude to the Miller familyJeff, Kristie, Bailey, Zack, and Brooklynfor their expertise and contributions to the project. Baileys input and unique perspective was invaluable. Zacks fascination with the boy miner photos was an inspiration. And Brooklyns help in papermaking was priceless.
| 1791 | Samuel Slater builds the first thread-spinning mill in the United States |
| 1793 | Eli Whitney patents the cotton gin based on experiments he and Catharine Greene completed |
| 1807 | Robert Fulton designs a steam engine to power a boat |
| 1822 | Town of Lowell, Massachusetts, is founded |
| 1825 | Erie Canal is completed |
| 1826 | Joseph Nipce produces the first photograph |
| 1830 | Congress enacts the Indian Removal Act |
| 1831 | Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper |
| 1834 | National Trades Union is started |
| 1835 | Lucy Larcom goes to work in a Massachusetts mill |
| 1837 | John Deere invents the first steel plow |
| 1838 | Caulkers Association union is formed |
| 1843 | Dorothea Dix reports on conditions of the mentally ill in the state of Massachusetts |
| 1844 | Samuel B. Morse sends the first telegram |
| 1846 | Elias Howe develops a sewing machine |
| 1860 | Pony Express moves mail cross-country |
| 1861 1865 | Civil War |
| 1868 | Isaac Myers starts the Colored Caulkers Trade Union Society of Baltimore |
| 1869 | Knights of Labor forms; Colored National Labor Union is started; Transcontinental Railroad is completed |
| 1873 | Economic depression (Panic of 1873) hits |
| 1876 | Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone; American Centennial Exhibition is held in Philadelphia |
| 1877 | Nez Perce Chief Joseph surrenders to US government; Great Railroad Strike occurs; Thomas Edison files a patent for the phonograph |
| 1879 | College football debuts |
| 1880 | Thomas Edison develops an electric lightbulb; John D. Rockefellers Standard Oil owns 90 percent of oil refineries in the United States |
| 1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act is passed |
| 1884 | First skyscraper is built in Chicago |
| 1886 | American Federation of Labor forms; Haymarket Riot occurs |
| 1889 | Jane Addams establishes Hull House |
| 1891 | James Naismith invents the game of basketball |
| 1892 | Carnegie Steel Company is the largest US steel maker; Homestead Strike occurs |
| 1893 | Economic depression (Panic of 1893) hits; Chicago hosts the Worlds Columbian Exposition; Illinois governor pardons surviving Haymarket Riot participants |
| 1894 | Pullman Strike occurs |
| 1897 | Nations first subway is completed in Boston |
| 1899 | First juvenile court system is established in Illinois; Marshall Taylor wins the world one-mile track cycling championship |
| 1901 | Pan-American Exposition is held in Buffalo, New York; President William McKinley is assassinated |
| 1903 | Wright Brothers complete the first successful airplane flight |
| 1904 | Louisiana Purchase Exposition is held in St. Louis, Missouri |
| 1905 | Bessie Moore becomes the first woman to win the US Womens Singles Championship four times |
| 1906 | Upton Sinclair shocks readers with his book The Jungle ; Pure Food and Drug Act is enacted |
| 1913 | Henry Ford sets up the first assembly line to manufacture cars |
During the Industrial Revolution children like Lucy Larcom and this young cotton spinner worked long hours in textile mills.
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