AC9HH9K13 Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 Humanities and Social Sciences provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

the social, economic, political, technological and/or environmental causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution on Europe in the late 18th and 19th century

Elaborations

• 1 explaining how changes in technology, such as steam-driven spinning mills, railways and steam ships, led to the development of factories and industrialised cities
• 2 identifying the spread of innovations such as steam power, iron and steel production, transport and the use of new chemicals in Europe, the USA and Japan
• 3 analysing factors that caused the Industrial Revolution; for example, the Agricultural Revolution, Enlightenment ideas, access to raw materials, a growing population, a wealthy middle class, increased individual freedom, access to cheap labour, improvements to the transport system, inventions and innovations, trade and commerce, and an expanding empire
• 4 evaluating the most significant effects of the Industrial Revolution, such as economic growth, changing economic and social structures, changes in working conditions, a rise in the standard of living, growth of the middle class, new ideas, imperialism and environmental impacts

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