AC9HH9K13
Year 9
Humanities and Social Sciences
AC9HH9K13 | Year 9 History: The Industrial Revolution and the movement of peoples (1750–1900)
Content Descriptor
Content descriptor the social, economic, political, technological and/or environmental causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution on Europe in the late 18th and 19th century
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 explaining how changes in technology, such as steam-driven spinning mills, railways and steam ships, led to the development of factories and industrialised cities
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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
- • Elaboration 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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