AC9HH9K014
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH9K014 | Year 9 History: The Industrial Revolution and the movement of peoples (1750–1900)
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the changing population movements and settlement patterns during the period 1750 to 1900
Strand
Knowledge and understanding
Substrand
The Industrial Revolution and the movement of peoples (1750–1900)
This content descriptor sets out learning for Year 9 History. Use it to plan lessons and assessment with the Australian Curriculum v9.
Elaborations
- • Elaboration describing reasons for changing population movements; for example, changes to agricultural practices such as enclosures, improvements in farm machinery, the development of the factory system, the development of the steam engine, and the growth of cities as people moved to the cities to find employment
- • Elaboration explaining the role of the Industrial Revolution in creating a growing need for labour and transportation
- • Elaboration identifying and describing the various push factors for the movement of peoples in the transatlantic slave trade, the Irish Potato Famine and convict transportation, such as the Agricultural Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, discrimination and persecution, and forced migration
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