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Industrial Revolution

Databases

U.S. History In Context

History Reference Center

Online Encyclopedias

World Book Online

Encyclopedia Britannica

Websites

Irish Immigration

http://www.irish-genealogy-toolkit.com/Irish-immigration-to-America.html

http://www.libertyellisfoundation.org/immigration-timeline

http://www.ushistory.org/us/25f.asp

https://sites.google.com/site/thenorthsite/early-immigration-in-the-u-s-1

http://www.energyofanation.org/4e667f77-e302-4c1a-9d2e-178a0ca31a32.html?NodeId

http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/america.htm

Inventions

http://mead.sd54.org/mshipley/files/2015/01/listofinventorsandinventions.pdf

http://www.ushistory.org/us/25c.asp

http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/adayinthelife/inventors.html

http://www.american-historama.org/industrial-revolution-inventions.htm

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/transport-1750-to-1900/canals-1750-to-1900/

Transportation

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Railroads.aspx
http://www.sageamericanhistory.net/gildedage/topics/railroads_industry.html
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blsteamship.htm
http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-transportation-revolution-turnpikes-to-steamboats-to-railroads.html
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/transport-1750-to-1900/canals-1750-to-1900/

Factories

http://www2.needham.k12.ma.us/nhs/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html

http://www.uni.edu/schneidj/webquests/adayinthelife/factorysystem.html

http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/britain-1700-to-1900/industrial-revolution/factories-in-the-industrial-revolution/

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3406400541.html

http://www.ushistory.org/us/25d.asp

General Industrial Revolution Sites

http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Industrial_Revolution.aspx - overview of industrial revolution
http://dmshistory8.weebly.com/industrial-revolution.html - inventions, transportation and communications
http://www.let.rug.nl/usa/essays/1801-1900/the-iron-horse/the-industrial-revolution.php -overview of industrial revolution

http://www.ducksters.com/history/us_1800s/industrial_revolution.php -overview of industrial revolution
http://www.factsfornow.scholastic.com/article?product_id=nbk&type=0ta&uid=10676850&id=a2014620-h -railroads, factories, steel and labor
http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution - overview of industrial revolution
http://www.encyclopedia.com/topic/Tenements.aspx - NY tenement housing