Gold Changed Everything

Year 9 Depth Study 1: Making a Better World?Marion Littlejohn

Education Officer

Sovereign Hill Museums

HTAV Middle Years Conference, October 2012

Depth studies

There are three depth studies for this historical period. 1 Making a Better World?

2 Australia and Asia

3 World War I

For each depth study, there are up to three electives that focus on a particular society, event, movement or development. It is expected that ONE elective will be studied in detail.

http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Level9

Depth Study 1

Making a Better World?

Students investigate how life changed in the period in depth through the study of ONE of these major developments:

1. The Industrial Revolution (1750 – 1914) 2. Movement of peoples (1750 – 1901) 3. Progressive ideas and movements (1750 – 1918)

The study includes the causes and effects of the development, and the Australian experience.

http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Level9

Progressive ideas and movements (1750 – 1918)

• The emergence and nature of key ideas in the period, with a particular focus on ONE of the following: capitalism, socialism, egalitarianism, nationalism, imperialism, Darwinism, Chartism

• The reasons why ONE key idea emerged and/or developed a following, such as the influence of the Industrial Revolution on socialism

• The role of an individual or group in the promotion of ONE of these key ideas, and the responses to it from, for example, workers, entrepreneurs, land owners, religious groups

• The short and long-term impacts of ONE of these ideas on Australia and the world

http://ausvels.vcaa.vic.edu.au/Level9

Key inquiry questions (same for all Depth Studies)

• What were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750 to 1918?

• How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

• What was the origin, development, significance and long-term impact of imperialism in this period?

• What was the significance of World War I?

Gutenberg Printing Press, c. 1440

Inquiry question

• How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

The Industrial Revolution

Inquiry question

• How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

1837 Victoria crowned Queen of Great Britain and Ireland

Queen Victoria [ 1819-1901 ] ByFranz Xaver Winterhalter

Inquiry Question

What was the origin, development, significance and long-term impact of imperialism in this period?

British Empire in 1886 (Inset shows British Territories in 1776)

[The Oriel Window, South Gallery, Lacock Abbey], 1835 or 1839William Henry Fox Talbot (British, 1800–1877)

From the "Bertoloni Album," 1839

William Henry Fox Talbot Photogenic drawingAlbum of 36 photogenic drawings

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm

Inquiry question• How did new ideas and technological

developments contribute to change in this period?

Replica of Richard Trevithick's 1804 locomotive at the National Waterfront Museum, Swansea.

1808 Trevithick charged one shilling at his Steam Circus to view his “Catch me who can” steam locomotive

Isambard Kingdom Brunel 1806-1859by the launching chains of the Great Easternby Robert Howlett, 1857

Brunel’s Great Western railway linking London to Bristol included this two-mile-long Tunnel at Box; then the longest railway tunnel in the world.

Construction began in 1836 and the tunnel opened in 1841.

The Vulcan, the first steam locomotive on the Great Western Railway.It ran on a short stretch of completed track on 28 December 1837.

By 1846 – 5,000 miles of railway track are laid in Britain

Launch of the Great Britain by HRH Prince Albert in 1843

Launch of Great Britain at Bristol, July 1843. Painting by Joseph Walter

1838 Publication of The People’s Charter

start of Chartism

1840 The Penny Post is introduced in Britain

1842 end of first Opium War – Britain gains Hong Kong

1840 Smallpox vaccination - using cowpox - provided free in Britain- other treatments of smallpox banned

Edward Jenner by James Northcote

Inquiry Question

How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

Reenactment – first use of ether Massachusetts General Hospital 1846

Florence Nightingalec. 1860

1854 John Snow links contaminated water to the spread of cholera

A ward in the hospital at Scutari, 1856 (Crimean War)

1848 – Major Chartist demonstration in London

The Chartist Demonstration on Kennington Common, 10th April 1848, by William Barnes Wollen

The Great Chartist Meeting on Kennington Common, London, April 10, 1848, photograph taken by William Kilburn. Black-and-white photograph with applied colour.

Original at Windsor Castle.

"The Declaration of Independence" by John Trumbull (mural in the Capitol Building, Washington D.C.)

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”

4th July, 1776

Inquiry Question

What was the origin, development, significance and long-term impact of imperialism in this period?

The Emigrants 1844 by Elizabeth Walker

Poole, P.F. The Emigrants Departure, 1838

Ercildoune

1835 – 1851 The Port Phillip District of NSW was developing as a Squattocracy

The Great Exhibition

of 1851

The Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London.

Gold Changed

Everything?

The Forest Creek Diggings,

Mount Alexander, London Illustrated

News, 1852

Inquiry QuestionWhat were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750 to 1918?

S.T. Gill, The Rush

Ford Maddox-Brown, The Last Of England, 1854

Port Phillip Society 1835 - 1851

Victoria changed by gold1851 →

Inquiry QuestionWhat were the changing features of the movements of people from 1750 to 1918?

S.T. Gill. Butchers Shamble, F. Creek

S.T. Gill, Diggers Hut, Canvas & Bark 1852

Samuel Brees, Flemington Road, 1856

Phoenix Foundry, Ballarat 1873

Inquiry question

How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

1883 – the 100th steam locomotive to be built in Ballarat’s Phoenix Foundry

Ballarat - view from the Town Hall, 1872

Charles Darwin, aged 45 in 1854, by then working towards publication of On the Origin of SpeciesPublished 1859

Inquiry question

How did new ideas and technological developments contribute to change in this period?

Inquiry question

What was the origin, development, significance and long-term impact of imperialism in this period?

The Industrial RevolutionWikipedia has an excellent overviewhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

Spartacus Educational websiteBritish online encyclopaedia created to provide free education materials for teachers and students in the UK. Has an excellent section on the Industrial Revolution divided into easily searchable topicshttp://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IndustrialRevolution.htm

History of the Great Western RailwayA good site for train enthusiasts

http://mikes.railhistory.railfan.net/r010.html

ss Great Britain Museum web page http://www.ssgreatbritain.org/

History of Photography http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/tlbt/hd_tlbt.htm

TroveA quick link to all digitised resources held in Australian museums, libraries and cultural institutions.Includes books, images, historic newspapers, maps, music, archives and morehttp://trove.nla.gov.au/