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 Illinois During the Gilded Age
Illinois In the Gilded Age is not only useful to Illinoisans learning about their state's history, as it also illuminates larger themes in the history of the United States during the Gilded Age as well. Illinois In the Gilded Age is a great site for Gilded Age issues, especially labor and politics. Produced by the Northern Illinois University Libraries' Digitization Unit, the site offers background articles, analytical essays, lesson plans, and interactive maps. It also features video lectures by experts on Gilded Age topics. A must see!
The Great Chicago Fire and the Web of Memory
A first-rate exhibition created by the Chicago Historical Society and Northwestern University. There are two major parts: the history of Chicago in the 19th century, and how the Chicago Fire has been remembered over time. Included are essays, galleries, and sources.
America in the 1890s (Bowling Green U.)
A detailed look at the issues and personalities that dominated the era. Many primary source excerpts.
 Mark Twain in his Times
Contained here are dozens of texts and manuscripts, scores of contemporary reviews and articles, hundreds of images, and many different kinds of interactive exhibits. Produced by The Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia.
Election of 1896
A detailed look at the issues and personalities that dominated the election
Richest Man in the World: Andrew Carnegie (PBS)
A companion to the American experience video series, this site includes an introduction to the era, a time line, a teacher's guide, photos and cartoons, a bibliography, a look at the Homestead strike, and links to relevant sites.
Jim Crow Online
Jim Crow Online is the official companion Web site to the PBS documentary, The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow. The Web site, exploring segregation from the end of the Civil War to the onset of the Civil Rights Movement, uses interactive features that enable visitors to learn more about the history of Jim Crow in the United States and the real-life crusaders of the period who fought against it. There are first-hand narratives and interactive maps and in the Tools and Activities section students can analyze images, post their comments online, and explore the legacy of Jim Crow.
The Centennial Exhibition: Philadelphia 1876
The Philadelphia Library has digitized artifacts from the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia, which featured the wonders of the Industrial Age and exhibits from 37 countries. The most lasting accomplishment of the Exhibition was to introduce America as a new industrial world power, soon to eclipse the might and production of every other industrialized nation, and to showcase the City of Philadelphia as a center of American culture and industry.
Digital History: Labor History
Digital History features resource guides by topic and period. Reference resources include classroom handouts, chronologies, encyclopedia articles, glossaries, and an audio-visual archive including speeches, book talks and e-lectures by historians, and historical maps, music, newspaper articles, and images. The site's Ask the HyperHistorian feature allows users to pose questions to professional historians.
A History of American Sweatshops
Has three History sections: 1820-1880, 1880-1940, and 1940-1997
American History 102: 1865-Present
Part of a university course, this set has excellent lecture notes on major topical areas in American History from 1865. Check out lecture number four, "The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption."
Inventing Entertainment
The collections in the Library of Congress's Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division contain an extraordinary range of the surviving products of Edison's entertainment inventions and industries. This site features 341 motion pictures, 81 disc sound recordings, and other related materials, such as photographs and original magazine articles.
American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920
The American Variety Stage is a multimedia anthology selected from various Library of Congress holdings. This collection illustrates the vibrant and diverse forms of popular entertainment, especially vaudeville, that thrived from 1870-1920.
Technology in America - The Telephone (PBS)
This PBS companion site focuses not only on the telephone but on other important inventions in American history as well
 The Industrial Revolution
The site examines what factors led to industrial growth, how this affected the lives of ordinary people and find out how working conditions were changed forever by the quick succession of inventions and pieces of legislation.
Edisonian Museum
Provides images and histories of inventions
Lesson Plans, Teacher Guides, Activities, and more
Child Labor in America (Library of Congress lesson plan)
Using historic photographs and primary sources, students will research and learn about child labor in America with this LOC lesson plan. The plan provides its own printable handouts and discussion questions. Recommended for grades 7-12
Lesson Plan: Child Labor in the United States
This lesson plan (from the American Social History Project) asks students to examine photographs of child factory laborers at an online exhibit about southern factory mill towns from the early twentieth century.
After Reconstruction: Problems of African Americans in the South (Lesson Plan)
Designed by The Learning Page of the LOC, this lesson plan focuses on the problems that went unsolved throughout reconstruction. Students are encouraged to conduct research using primary sources. Recommended for High school aged students.
Teaching US History with Primary Sources: Gilded Age Era Lesson Plans from the Illinois Historical Digitization Projects
This resourceful site offers nine different lesson plans including "The WCTU and the Lynching Controversy", "'Death to King Alcohol!' Temperance in the 19th Century", and "Is there such a thing as too much profit?: The Interstate Commerce Act of 1887."
Social Darwinism: Reason or Rationalization?
Presented by Small Planet Communications, this lesson plan encourages debate over the theory of Social Darwinism. Students are also asked to write a short follow-up essay on their position. Includes necessary material. Intended for 11th grade
The Great Migration: Lesson Plan
In this DiscoverySchool.com lesson plan students will understand that in addition to being, except for Native Americans, a country of immigrants, the United States is also now remarkable for the frequency with which people move around the country, from region to region. Grades 6-8.
Course Models: Social Reformers - Women's Voices
Part of the California History-Social Science content standards and annotated course, this site includes background information, focus questions, pupil activities and handouts, an assessment, and references to books, articles, web sites, literature, audio-video programs, and a historic site. Grade 11.
Striking a Deal: Learning the History of American Labor Strikes
In this New York Times lesson, students explore the economic repercussions of a potential Major League Baseball strike. Then, through researching other labor strikes in American history, students will consider the importance and impact of labor unions in United States history.(August 30, 2002)
The Immigrant Experience in America
Students grade 5-8 will learn about immigration, Ellis Island, and tenement life from 1890 to 1924. Each student will create an identity of an immigrant and write an essay in the first person. Essays will describe the fictitious immigrants in terms of who they are, where they came from, and what they found when they arrived in New York City.
Digital History Resource Guides
The Digital Resource Guides provide links to American history web sites by period and provide historical overviews, readings (online textbook chapter, Reader's Companion), primary source documents (documents, maps, cartoons), teaching resources (chronologies, maps, quizzes), audio-visual resources, and additional resources. The Guides are an excellent and comprehensive teaching resource.
Industrialization of the United States: Document Based Essay
This Prentice Hall DBQ is designed to test students' ability to work with historical documents and is based on the accompanying documents (1-6). It asks whether or not the changes that occurred after the Civil War created a more democratic America with greater opportunities for all.
Work. Culture, and Society in Industrial America -- DBQs
Part of the Teaching With Documents site, questions feature a selection of primary and secondary documents, graphics, cartoons, tables, and graphs. The titles of the topics are "Rural Americans Move to the Cities," "Progress and Poverty in Industrial America," and "Re-Defining the Role of Women in Industrial America."
In the Wake of War: Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank, Flashcards, American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
The Student Resources section of The American Nation companion web site features introductions to chapters, interactive quizzes, flashcards, web links, an American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
An Industrial Giant: Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank, Flashcards, American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
The Student Resources section of The American Nation companion web site features introductions to chapters, interactive quizzes, flashcards, web links, an American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
The Gilded Age Industry (WebQuest)
This WebQuest asks the students to produce a multimedia PowerPoint Presentation centered on technology, Big Business, immigration and its reaction, and urban issues. Some broken links.
Child Labor in America (History Place)
Photos of children in adult work-environment could be the core of a moving multimedia presentation on child labor
American Society in the Industrial Era: Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank, Flashcards, American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
The Student Resources section of The American Nation companion web site features introductions to chapters, interactive quizzes, flashcards, web links, an American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
Politics:Local, State, and National: Multiple Choice Quiz, Fill-in-the-Blank, Flashcards, American History Glossary, American History Appendix
The Student Resources section of The American Nation companion web site features introductions to chapters, interactive quizzes, flashcards, web links, an American History Glossary, and an American History Appendix
Interpreting Primary Sources
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History offers lessons, quizzes, activities and primary source documents for a variety of topics including The Farmer's Revolt, and Responses to Industrialization.
Workers and Work in America, 1600-Present
A multimedia course with many useful links
Industrialization of the United States Practice Test
High School level quiz on Industrial American history from Prentice Hall.
HistoryTeacher.net: AP United States History Quizzes
A New York teacher has produced a great general site for history teachers that offers AP-level United States history quizzes on many different periods and topics.
A People and a Nation, 7th edition
The Instructor Companion presentation program for A People and a Nation displays approximately 520 images, 200 maps, and several dozen audio and video assets, organized by book chapter. Launch the free program and select the appropriate chapter.
AP United States History DBQs: 1875-1925
These student-created DBQs are part of the excellent Historyteacher.net site
Business and Strikes Game
Answer a series of questions from easy to difficult about businesses and labor strikes during the late 1800's
The American People: The Rise of Smokestack America
PowerPoint Presentation on Industrial America as part of the online companion to The American People. Click PowerPoint Presentations and then Chapter 18.
The American People: Politics and Reform
PowerPoint Presentation on Gilded Age politics as part of the online companion to The American People. Click PowerPoint Presentations and then Chapter 19.
1890s American Politics: Blank Map
The companion web site to The American People offers blank maps related to various topics in American history. The maps can be printed or placed in a PowerPoint presentation
Railroads: Blank Map
The companion web site to The American People offers blank maps related to various topics in American history. The maps can be printed or placed in a PowerPoint presentation
Technology in America Timeline (PBS)
From Benjamin Franklin's lightning rod to the Hubble Space Telescope, this timeline covers some of America's technological innovations and inventions.
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