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The Rise of Industrial America
August 17-21, 2009
Workshop Facilitators:
This workshop will allow teachers to develop lessons and share teaching
strategies that
explore how and why industrial change occurred in the United States during
the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Advances in technology, the rise of the Lowell textile mills, changes in
business organization, and the emergence of 'captains of industry' are
topics we will focus on in considering industrializing America.
Similarly,
we will examine the impact of these rapid changes and how Americans
responded to them. What demographic shifts occurred because of
industrialization? How did life change for Americans in an increasingly
industrial and urban society? How did Americans respond through a myriad
of reform efforts? Subjects that teachers will concentrate on are
the labor movement, the progressive era, and government regulation of
industry and the economy up through FDR's New Deal.
In keeping with the mission of our latest DOE Teaching American History
grant we will continue to
focus on how students' content area knowledge can be improved through the
implementation of literacy teaching strategies.
Resources for workshop participants
This site was last updated on July 29,
2009.
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