Labor's Response to Industrialization
Activity for U.S. HistoryGrade
9 - 12, Home School
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Social Studies/History
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Activities
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Post a CommentThis presentation provides students a visually stimulating lesson detailing the Labor's Response to Industrialization (1870-1900) during the Gilded Age. Designed as a student-centered activity to be uploaded into google classroom, the presentation includes 8 embedded focus questions for students to answer using their core text (and additional information presented in the slides). The 16 slide activity is filled with colorful pictures and other relevant information that will serve as a platform in which to build additional related activities. This lesson is also great to use when you are out of the classroom, serving as an awesome resource for sub days! If you'd like a version you can edit, shoot me an email and I'll be happy to help. Enjoy!
Topics include:
* Working conditions of the working class.
* Widespread child labor (reasons so many children worked & conditions they endured).
* The rise of the labor movement in the U.S. in the late 1800's & their main goals.
* Difficulties labor unions faced in the era & the ways big business undermined unions.
* The emergence of national labor organizations: Knights of Labor, the American Federation of Labor (AFL), & the Industrial Workers of the World ("Wobblies").
* Strikes erupt nationwide in an era of economic turbulence: the Great Railroad Strike of 1877, the Haymarket Affair (1886), the Homestead Strike (1892), & the Pullman Strike (1894).
* The legacy of the early labor movement: successes & failures.
*Lesson learning target on the bottom of every slide.