1. 19th
& 20th
Century History – Industrial Revolution NAME:
Document Based Question #2:
Effects of the Industrial Revolution
Directions: 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 authorʼs point
of view, for they may greatly affect how you use them.
First, analyze each document in the Industrial Revolution Primary Source Packet and carefully
decide whether this evidence supports a POSITIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution or a
NEGATIVE effect of the Industrial Revolution. Below each document write either POSITIVE
or NEGATIVE and then a brief (bullet point) explanation as to why/how you would argue this.
Then, create a thesis statement (main idea) that answers the prompt/question below, and outline
the three body paragraphs of a T-E-A formatted essay. You must create a topic sentence for
your essay (introduction) and then a topic sentence for each of the three body paragraphs. Your
body paragraph topic sentence should introduce the topic for the paragraph and make a
defensible statement. Each body paragraph topic sentence must be supported with two different
pieces of evidence (research based on the documents) for a total of six pieces of evidence from
the following documents. You should present evidence (research) that pertains directly to the
topic above, nothing else – briefly explaining what/how you would be arguing from your evidence.
After each piece of evidence, cite the document using (Doc. #1, or #2, etc.). Good Luck!
PROMPT:
Evaluate the positive and negative effects of the Industrial Revolution.
Thesis Statement/Topic Sentence (this should clearly state your opinion/argument on the prompt):
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Body Paragraph #1:
Topic Sentence (introduces topic and makes a defensible statement):
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Body Paragraph #2:
Topic Sentence (introduces topic and makes a defensible statement):
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Body Paragraph #3:
Topic Sentence (introduces topic and makes a defensible statement):
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3. Industrial Revolution Primary Source Packet
Directions: Analyze each document in this packet 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 a brief (bullet point) explanation as to why/how you would argue this.
Document 1
Document 2
“Contrary to the vulgar belief that men are motivated primarily by materialistic considerations, we now see the
capitalist system being discredited and destroyed all over the world, even though this system has given men the
greatest material comforts.”
Ayn Rand (Russian born American Writer and Novelist, 1905-1982)
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4. Document 4
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5. Document 7
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6. Document 10
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The following is a picture is of Henry Ford standing next to one of his Model T automobiles. ca. 1925.

7. Document 13
Document 14
The following picture is of a typical working class neighborhood in London, England ca. 1872.
Document 15

8. Document 15