Industrial Revolution DBQ`s
Modified by Robert Cox
Directions: Complete all five assignments below. Each group will be given a packet to complete. Assignments should be turned in as a packet and not individually.
Assignment 1: Inventions and Industry Scavenger Hunt
Directions: Find the scavenger hunt paper in your packet or download the document and complete the questions using online resources or your text. Make sure to cite your answers. |
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Assignment 2: Child Labor in America
Background - Photographer Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) …was a teacher who took up photography as a means of expressing his social concerns… From 1908 to 1912, Hine took his camera across America to photograph children as young as three years old working for long hours, often under dangerous conditions, in factories, mines, and fields… In 1909, he published the first of many photo essays depicting working children at risk… Some of his images, such as the young girl in the mill glimpsing out the window, are among the most famous photographs ever taken…. Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins…. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view…. This dust penetrated the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs…. A kind of slave driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience…. Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory…. All but the very smallest babies work…. Began work at 3:30 a.m. and expected to work until 5 p.m. – from The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912 Directions: Choose one of the following photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine and complete a Photograph Analysis Worksheet for each. |
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Assignment 3: "Engines of Our Ingenuity" Audio Analysis
Background - The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. This broadcast is about Thomas Nast, the father of American political cartoons… Of all Nast's causes, America can best thank him for what he did in 1871. An old patriotic organization called the Tammany Society controlled New York. It was run by the infamous William Tweed and three shrewd cronies. No one did business without paying bribes to Tweed's gang. They bled huge sums of money from citizens. Their theft ran up a debt New Yorkers were still paying well into this century….Tweed wasn't worried about what the papers wrote. Few of the people he was robbing could read, anyway. But Nast created a whole new visual vocabulary of political assault (the political cartoon) -- Tweed's thumb lowered on New York City, Tweed with a sack of money for a head, Tammany underlings portrayed as slaves. A Tammany agent finally showed up and offered Nast $100,000 for a long art-study trip to Europe. Nast refused, and the offer rose. When he turned down a half million dollars, they threatened his life instead. Nast held on. He succeeded in bringing legal processes to bear on Tweed and his gang. Within months they were all either in jail or on the run. From Engines of Our Ingenuity, No.912, Thomas Nast Directions: Listen to the audio broadcast by clicking on the picture of Thomas Nast and fill out the audio analysis worksheet. If you have trouble listening to the audio for some reason read the written transcript. |
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Assignment 4: Political Cartoon Analysis
Directions: Choose one of the following political cartoons and complete a Cartoon Analysis Worksheet.
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Assignment 5: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Directions: Browse the Triangle Factory Fire website page and answer the discussion questions. First click the image to the left to open the Triangle Factory Fire website. Next, open the questions. |
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