Year 9 Industrial Revolution History

Compare nineteenth-century Irish migration to Britain with the forced movement of Africans in the transatlantic slave trade, using push and pull factors, emigration, and the Middle Passage.

Explain why Henry VIII broke with the Roman Catholic Church, distinguishing his immediate aim from his underlying dynastic concern.

Explain how the factory system, textiles, steam power, transport, and urbanisation interacted to drive Britain’s industrialisation.

Construct a balanced answer judging how far industrialisation improved working-class life, using evidence about employment, child labour, housing, disease, pollution, and reform.