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Urban ConditionsPART 1 : Match the vocabulary words with their definitions by typing the letter in the boxes below each word. If it’s challenging, start with the ones you know and use the process of elimination. You also have a vocab list from March that might help you. ;)

Labor Textile Urban Reform Slum Sanitation

Social welfare

Entrepreneur

A. fabric or clothB. describes a city or large townC. having to do with how clean something isD. a person who creates or invents new things (jobs, factories, etc.)E. to change something (usually for the better)F. workG. support or money made available (by government) to help poor peopleH. a poor, dirty and crowded area (especially in housing)

PART 2 : Analyze each source and thoughtfully answer the accompanying questions. This will give us a better idea of what it was like to live in an urban area during the Industrial Revolution (I.R.), and the impacts it had on health, housing and the environment.

Source Questions --- type your answer in the blank spaces in between.

1. One common disease that killed people during the I.R. was …

2. The cause of the disease was …

3. Two symptoms (effects) of the disease were …

coal change arrival

Fill in the blanks!1.2.3.

Tenement housing was common during and after the I.R.

1. What do you notice? (2 specific observations)

2. What vocabulary word from PART 1 BEST matches this picture?

“Old Father Thames” (London political cartoon, mid-1800s). The Thames River is the main waterway that runs through London. During the I.R., it was as a water source for many people; it was also where

sewage, factory pollution, and other industrial waste was disposed of.

1. This cartoon shows the I.R. affecting which area: Health? Housing? The environment? Explain your choice(s).

Tenement housing or “slum” in 1800s England.

1. Describe 2 interesting things you see happening in this picture.

1. What was the “miasma theory” ?

2. What did John Snow discover about HOW cholera spread?

1. This photo shows the I.R. affecting which area: Health? Housing? The environment? Explain your choice(s).

“The irregular cramming together of dwellings in ways which defy all rational plan. They are crowded literally one upon the other. At the

end of the court passage is a privy (bathroom) without a door, so dirty that the inhabitants can pass into and out of the court only by passing

through foul pools of stagnant urine and excrement.” – Friedrich Engels

1. This image shows the I.R. affecting which area: Health? Housing? The environment? Explain your choice(s).