National History Challenge

Crisis and Response

 Introduction
Industrial Revolution

Introduction
What is Industrial Revolution
Timeline
Crisis
What did the Crisis cost to the humans
What did the Crisis cost to the environment
Response towards the Crisis
The response to the Crisis till this day
 Introduction
What is this National History Challenge?

The National History Challenge is an amazing contest for students that encourages them to use research
and inquiry-based learning to discover more interesting and breath-taking facts and ideas in/about the
past.
The 2024 NHC theme being crisis and response, the students are to use the Industrial Revolution (1750)-
World War 1 (1918), both being recalled/taught, are to be used in the competition.
Although the prices of winning the national history challenge can be money and vacations, the most
important price is about the fun and the knowledge we are able to gain from each other's final products.

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Industrial revolution started at almost the same time as

the Agricultural revolution.(When people needed new
ways to harvest foods and products and grow them.)  Agricultural revolution – Early 1700s
Some examples of what happened during the Industrial  Major changes started to happen such as changes in framing
revolution are… practices/ways got improved as well as food production and
 Urbanisation manufacturing methods. This showed a huge improvement in the
British population, which started an early cause of Urbanisation.
 Factory system  Although, this did slowly end in about 1850’s.
 Environmental pollution
 Health problems • The process of change from an agrarian and handicraft economy
to one dominated by industry and machine manufacturing. The
 Imperialism first revolution began sometime during the mid-18th century and
ended in 1830 in Britain. The second revolution began mid-19th
century and ended in the early 20th century in Britain.
Timeline (Industrial Revolution)
1764
Invention of Spinning
Jenny by James
Hargreaves

Invention of the
Invention of Cotton
lightning rod by
Gin by Eli Whitney
Benjamin Franklin

1749 1794
Timeline (Industrial Revolution)
1844 1853
Invention of the Invention of the
telegraph by Samuel elevator safety break by
Morse Elisha Otis

Invention of the
sewing machine by
Elias Howe

1846
Industrial Revolution
Pictures
Crisis
 Air Pollution
Due to the machinery being runed by coal, the
burning smoke is been emitted from the factories
get ended up in the environment and the air get
polluted, making it harder to breath.

The air pollution started to get effect on people and animals,

and it created an unhealthy environment to breath in. This
made people get various types of sicknesses and since at this
time, there were no cures.
 Diseases
People got sick during the industrial revolution
because of the lack of clean water, there were
overflowing gutters, the sewage came from
basement cesspits and there was bad air pollution.

There were many diseases during the Industrial

Revolution such as smallpox, typhus, tuberculosis,
cholera, lung disease, bone deformities, toxic exposures
and poor ventilation.
Air Pollution
• The environment got polluted because of the burning of coal, the
production of metal and basic chemicals which were released in the
air, there was a lot of smoke and raw metals used during the Industrial
Revolution.