Industrialization
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Lesson Plans:
Was
there an Industrial Revolution? - In the decades before the Civil
War—a period sometimes dubbed the First Industrial Revolution—a
significant number of inventions and innovations appeared, transforming
American life. A telegraph system allowed information to flow from
place to place more quickly than the speed of a horse. A transportation
system based largely on steam power allowed goods to be shipped great
distances at reduced expense.
The
Rise of Big Business - Good online activity for research on Rockefeller,
Carnegie, Vanderbilt and JP Morgan. Includes four activities.
Child
Labor in America - This unit asks students to critically examine,
respond to and report on photographs as historical evidence. Students
will discover the work of reformer/photographer Lewis Hine, whose
photographs give the issue of child labor a dramatic personal relevance
and illustrate the impact of photojournalism in the course of American
history.
Thomas
Edison Lesson Plans - Using documents from American Memory, plus
supplementary material, students investigate electrification as both
a technological and social process. A focus of the student's investigation
is Thomas Edison, because, as Nye contends, "Electricity was
the sign of Edison's genius, the wonder of the age, the hallmark of
progress"
Primary Source Documents:
Document
Based Essay - After the Civil War, America faced new challenges
including the rebuilding of the South and the rise of big business.
These events changed American society. This task is designed to test
your ability to work with historical documents and is based on the
accompanying documents.
Cotton
Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts - This lesson is based on the National
Register of Historic Places registration file, "Lowell National
Historical Park," and other source material about this millyard,
as well as other industrial sites in Lowell. An inquiry lesson.
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