Industrial Revolution on Trial

Calendar/Role Descriptions/Court Language/Witnesses for the Prosecution/Witnesses for the Defense

We will be putting the Industrial Revolution on trial, right here in class. There will be two teams: each will have three attorneys and as many witnesses as they can (using all other teammates). The Prosecution will be trying to convince the class that the negatives of the Industrial Revolution outweigh the positives, while the Defense will prove that there were many great positives to it. Your witnesses will be the people, ideas, machines, and methods developed during this industrial era.

I will be the judge and jury and will select a baliff. Each team must begin by having an attorney give the opening statement (a 1-2 minute speech outlining their case and evidence). After both teams have given their opening remarks, the Prosecution begins with their first witness (direct examination). Then, after they have asked all the questions they want, the Defense has a chance to cross-examine the witness, asking questions that will help prove their case. Then, the Prosecution may ask re-direct Defense witnesses. At the end of the trial, each team will select an attorney to deliver the closing statement (a 1-2 minute speech summarizing the team's main arguments).

Calendar/DUE Dates

Click here for DUE Dates by Period for Project

Role Assignments (click on your period to find your assigned role

Judge Houlahan

Role Descriptions (click on the links below)

Witness

Attorney

Court Language

For this activity, you are to treat this as a real court case. In order to recreate the experience of the courtroom, you are going to have to become familiar with certain court language.

Attorneys

List of Witnesses (click on the links below to conduct your research)

Witnesses for the Prosecution

1. William Dodd http://www.nettlesworth.durham.sch.uk/time/victorian/vindust.html http://www.umbc.edu/history/CHE/techerpages/indrev.html http://www.victorianweb.org/history/workers2.html

2. Patience Kershaw http://www.victorianweb.org/history/ashley.html

3. Jeremey Bentham http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Bentham http://utilitarianism.com/bentham.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/PRbentham.htm

4. Karl Marx http://www.historyguide.org/intellect/marx.html

5. Okonkwo http://www.britishempire.co.uk/

6. Luke Fildes http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Jfildes.htm http://www.artchive.com/ftp_site.htm

7. Francis Trollop (Journalist)

8. Manchester England Resident http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/ITmanchester.htm http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1844engels.html

9. Michael Saddler http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRsadler.htm

10. Doctor Samuel Smith http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRsmith.htm

11. Charles Dickens Must use both pages below: http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/dickensbio1.html http://www.victorianweb.org/history/hist8.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/bleak_house_source_01.shtml

12. Luddite http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/cpp/luddites.htm Handout

 

Witnesses for the Defense

1. Cecil Rhodes http://www.britishempire.co.uk/biography/rhodes.htm http://www.britishempire.co.uk/article/imperium.htm

2. Adam Smith http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/ENLIGHT/INDUSTRY.HTM http://www.fsmitha.com/h3/h44-ph.html

3. James Hargreaves http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blspinningjenny.htm http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SChargreaves.htm

4. Richard Arkwright http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRarkwright.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Arkwright http://www.cottontimes.co.uk/arkwrighto.htm

5. James Watt http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCwatt.htm http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/watt.htm http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6914/watte.htm

6. George Stephenson http://inventors.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?site=http://www.nationalrrmuseum.org/collections%2Dexhibits/outline/beginnings.php http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RAstephensonG.htm http://www.britainexpress.com/History/bio/stephenson.htm

7. Eli Whitney http://inventors.about.com/od/cstartinventions/a/cotton_gin.htm http://www.eliwhitney.org/cotton.htm

8. Andrew Carnegie http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#1880.E2.80.931900:_scholar_and_activist http://www.andrewcarnegie.net/

9. Samuel F. B. Morse http://www.morsehistoricsite.org/history/morse.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morse

10. Henry Bessemer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bessemer http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/SCbessemer.htm http://www.exnet.com/1995/09/27/science/science.html

11. Nwoye http://www.britishempire.co.uk/

12. Edward Jenner http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/nathist/jenner.html