Thursday, September 18, 2014

In class the teacher assigned grow  to create a museum curator of the Industrial Revolution. At first groups had to fill out an analysis sheet. Filling out the analysis sheet was the most important part of curating because it helped analyze each piece of source there was. By filling out the sheet information on when, where, and why the source s were made was asked and help groups have a better understanding on each source.

When coming up with name of the exhibit we wanted to be creative and unique. As a group we named the exhibit from Spinning Wheels to Power Looms. The group came up with this title because the Industrial Revolution was a time where new inventions were made like spinning wheels.

The first source of my group's exhibit was the the almond loom in 1771. They were mostly in people' s homes and everyone in the family were able to work together and earn money together. The next source after spinning looms went to power looms at textile mill. The  looms at textile mills were the industrialized looms that were in the factories. Next in the exhibit was the spinning wheel in 1814 which was what women used in their homes. The spinning wheel was industrialized and changed to the spinning Jenny. The second to last exhibit was a graph that showed how rapidly London's population grew after the industrialization. The population was so large that London was the first city to have a population of 1 million. The last source in the exhibit was an observation made on how the industrial revolution impacted families. When the families had machines in their homes it was easy for the family to work together and provide buy once the buds trial revolution came families had to depend on one person to go to work and that one person had to provide for the family.

While visiting other exhibits from other groups I learned a lot about the industrial Revolution. There was an exhibit named weaving slavery into Industrial Revolution. More cotton was being produced but the population of slavery was also increasing. There was an increase in 15 southern states from 1770-1860. Another exhibit was called all work no play. This exhibit was about child labor and how children were put in dangerous conditions working. Children were used in coal mines and they were strapped leathers around them and made them pull large cargoes through small places. My favorite exhibit was called the dark side of the Industrial Revolution.This was my favorite exhibit because I was so surprised on how something that was meant to do good for people ended up harming people. Steam boats and other inventions were being invented but the pollution population went up a lot. Also some English cities were covered in black smoke and lower class were sombered in filth. Making these exhibits helped me learn a lot and gave me a better understanding if the Industrial Revolution.






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