Industrialization and the Rise of Urban American

 

"WHAT, THEN, IS THIS AMERICAN?": 1865-1900
http://www.eduref.org/Virtual/Lessons/crossroads/sec2/essay07.html

 

(Lesson Plan) Making Cities Work: How Engineers Transformed Late-Nineteenth Century American Urban Centers
http://www.eng.usf.edu/rnr/ret_2002/making_cities_work.pdf


THE RISE AND FALL OF THE INDUSTRIAL CITY
http://publicpolicy.pepperdine.edu/davenportinstitute/reports/renaissance/renaissance4.html


Reading Comprehension activity about Women in Factories
http://cfl.state.mn.us/mdeprod/groups/Assessment/documents/Instruction/001685.pdf

History of Sweatshops
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_shops

Animated Atlas
http://www.animatedatlas.com/movie.html?OVRAW=%22sweat%20shops%20%2B%22american%20history%22&OVKEY=american%20history&OVMTC=advanced&OVADID=2927996012&OVKWID=32059596012

Progressive Era
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/progress

Gilded Age
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/jb/gilded

Trade Unions in the US
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAtu.htm

Rise of Industrial American
http://memory.loc.gov/learn/features/timeline/riseind/riseof.html

Child Labor - History
http://www.continuetolearn.uiowa.edu/laborctr/child_labor/about/us_history.html
http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whaples.childlabor
http://www.yale.edu/ynhti/curriculum/units/2004/1/04.01.08.x.html
http://nhs.needham.k12.ma.us/cur/Baker_00/2002_p7/ak_p7/childlabor.html
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAchild.htm

Life in the Factory
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm
http://www.socialstudieshelp.com/Lesson_47_Notes.htm

Life in the Westinghouse Factory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/papr/west/westcond.html

ILGWU
http://www.bartleby.com/65/in/IntlLadi.html

The National Child Labor Committee Documents: http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm032.html

Mr. Coal's Story: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/mrcoal.cfm

The Story of My Cotton Dress: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/mmh/childlabor/cottondress.cfm

Story of the Sweatshop Girl: http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/social_history/5sweatshop_girl.cfm

Mother Jones: The March of the Mill Children
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/majones.htm
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/07/28/144246
http://womenshistory.about.com/library/etext/mj/bl_mj10.htm

Child Labor Editorial Cartoons: http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/child_labor_intro.html

Lewis Hine Photos:
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/index.html
http://www.historyplace.com/unitedstates/childlabor/about.htm
http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/207-b.html
http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/hine.htm
http://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/hine-photos/
http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/hnintro.htm

 

 

 

 

SUMMING IT ALL UP

http://www.kentlaw.edu/ilhs/curricul.htm#6