industrial revolution

Readers explore the impact of the Industrial Revolution on U.S. migration and immigration patterns.

This is a fresh and fun guide to the world's most influential inventions.

Eli Whitney is remembered as a great inventor. His cotton gin was one of the most important inventions of the Industrial Revolution, and it did much to shape the course of the American economy. This biographical title explores Whitney's entrepreneurial mind, bringing to life his inventions, innovations, and hardworking spirit. Through accessible language and detailed images, this curriculum-focused title provides an in-depth look at the Industrial Revolution, Whitney's role in it, and how together they helped shape a growing nation. A timeline and primary sources complete a comprehensive learning experience.

Explores the principal economic and social aspects of the Industrial Revolution in Britain in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

Describes the succession of technological developments that brought about economic changes in the United States from the time of the American Revolution up to the end of the twentieth century.

An adaptation of the adult book that studies the economic and ecological connection started by Christopher Columbus and continued by Legazpi that transported thousands of species around the globe including people, foods, insects, bacteria, plants, viruses, and animals. Discusses how this global connection impacted human history causing the rise of Europe, the devastation of imperial China, the disruption of Africa, and the prominence of Mexico City.

Looks at the technological changes that transformed the making of cloth, which became a key component of the Industrial Revolution that swept across Europe and America in the late 18th century. Includes an animated story that centers on a small New England community similar to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where the first textile mill in America was established.

Explores the environmental issues created by the advent of the railroad and steam engine, the development of large corporations, and the growth of cities between 1870 and 1910.

Explores the origins of the Industrial Revolution in central England and the positive and negative changes it brought to England and America between the eighteenth and twentieth centuries.