Post Civil War Industrial Growth - Part 2

Post Civil War Industrial Growth in the United States - Part 2 - USI.T6

Organized Labor, Immigration and Life in the Cities

In pairs, students will analyze images representing child labor, and describe them in English, using simple and complex sentences.

Language Objectives

Explain how the workplace changes led to the rise of labor organizations such as the American Federation of Labor

Explain the urban landscape of industrial America.

Content Objectives

Objectives - SWBAT

Match

Match the term to the correct definition

• processing

• expectancy

• dwellers

• waves

• acculturation

the act of handling or managing something

the anticipation of a future event

people who live in a specific area

a sudden increase

the process of cultural change

• the act of handling or managing something

• the anticipation of a future event

• people who live in a specific area

• a sudden increase

• the process of cultural change

​Organized Labor - Vocabulary

​​Textile Mill Sweatshop

Strike

Child Labor

​Organized Labor

American Federation of Labor

International Ladies' Garment
Workers Union

​Organized Labor

Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (1911)

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New Wave of Immigration and Policies - Vocabulary

Ellis Island NY Processing Center

​New Wave of Immigration

Chinese in Chinatown, NY

US Nativism

​New Wave of Immigration

​Chinese Exclusion Act
(1882)

Hotspot

Mark the points of origin for immigrants in the early 1900's. (There should be 5)

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Life in the Cities Vocabulary

African American Migration

​Life in the Cities

This book was a shock to all, because no one "knew" how poor people lived in the New York City slums. His book caused laws to be passed to improve housing conditions. This book also showed the contrast between the Barons and the rest of the country, that lived in poverty and squalor.

You're going to complete the Jacob Riis Gallery Walk Analysis.

​This is Jacob Riis. He was an American photojournalist that published the picture book "How the Other Half Lives".

Life in the Cities - The Other Half

Life in the Cities - The Other Half

​Child Labor in the United States

​You are going to complete the group work of Child Labor in the late 19th century.

Follow all the instructions that Ms. Tsilis will tell you! Pay close attention to the information you choose and place on the poster, as it will count as exam grade.