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Steam engines, cotton mills and coal turn a small English town into the world's first great industrial city. Students follow cotton from the plantations of the American South to the mills of Manchester and weigh the progress and the misery of the factory age.
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- Explain how machines, steam power and coal changed the way goods were made.
- Describe living and working conditions in factory towns such as Manchester, including child labour.
- Connect British industry to cotton grown by enslaved people in the Americas.