| Free Industrial Revolution Printable DBQ Worksheet for Students of United States History - Scroll Down to Print (PDF File) |
| Excerpt from Lucy Larcom's |
| A New England Girlhood (1889) |
| Country girls were naturally independent, and the feeling that at this new work the few hours they had of everyday leisure were entirely their own was a satisfaction to them. They preferred it to going out as "hired help." It was like a young man's pleasure in entering upon business for himself. Girls had never tried that experiment before, and they liked it. |
| Questions: |
| 1. Why did young rural women like the idea of working in factories? |
| 2. Imagine that you are a teenage girl growing up on a New England farm in the mid-1800s. Would you be tempted to work in a factory? Why or why not? |
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| Click here for this DBQ in printable (.pdf) format that can be reproduced and given to students. |
