Excerpt from
Hugh Miller's The Old
Red Sandstone (1841) |
Free Printable Industrial Revolution DBQ Worksheet for World History - Scroll Down to Print (PDF File) |
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| Steam boilers discharge into it their seething contents, and drains and sewers their fetid impurities; till at length it rolls on—here between tall dingy walls, there under precipices of red sandstone—considerably less a river than a flood of liquid manure. Document-based questions: 1. How were rivers polluted during this period? 2. Imagine that you are a Briton reading this in 1841. How might you react? Explain. Click here to print. |
