Urbanization activity: de-briefing questions (k12)

1. what was the name of your village in 1750?
2. at what point did your village change into a town? explain.

3. at what point did your town change into a city? explain.

4. what do you think was the most radical change that occurred between 1750 and 1830? explain your view.

5. identify with complete sentences five problems created by industrialization/urbanization. consider the dicken’s quote and what you learned during the urbanization activity.
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6. identify with complete sentences three ways that people benefited from urban and industrial growth.
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If I'm allowed to do fiction this will be fun.

Town name: Athermere

2: around 1760, we started out with only a population of 263 people in the begging we only increased 109 a year, with most kids dying before their fifth birthday. But eventually we reached a point where we could grow exponentially to the population of 15,800

3: 1800 we became a bustling city with 200,000 people calling our lovely city home.

4: Well personally I think when America sprung up out of no where in the 1760's. although if we are talking strictly about the industrialism the of course the cotton gin, which changed the face of the world and gave rebirth to slavery.  

5: There was a rebirth of slavery.

Workers rights where almost nonexistent.

Child labor became increasingly dangerous many losing fingers or whole limbs.  

Quality in most industries went down exponentially.

And of course the thing we battle with even now, automation, people lost jobs and got replaced by robots, and while convention for the rest of use sucks for them.

6: Cheaper and more widely available goods for purchase.

While some jobs closed you could argue many more opened up taking care of machinery and inventing became something of a staple.

Just more social interaction with people, you didn't talk to the same eight people everyday.

- three-quarters or two-thirds..

- "the constitution provides that an amendment may be proposed either by the congress with a two-thirds majority vote in both the house of representatives and the senate or by a constitutional convention called for by two-thirds of the state legislatures."

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the first two years of american revolution was not very encouraging for the patriots since the british were far superior in sea power, arms and troops.