Process
Your group has safely reached the past in your time machine and must split up to investigate four very different lifestyles of the era. Determine what that person’s life would have been like before the this era (how did they get to where they are?), what is life like now (are there any major events, people or places that they have been?), and what they expect the future to look like. You will be given resources that are appropriate to thoroughly investigate the time period between 1870 and 1900.
Individual Task
As a historian, you must investigates one lifestyle of the past. You are required to complete a Fact Sheet which you can download and print off. As you complete your investigation, fill in your fact sheet and gain a good understanding of what life was like in the era between 1870 and 1900.
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Captain of Industry
The Social Philosophy of American Businessmen
Natural Resource Sites of the United States, c. 1890 (interactive)
Thomas Edison (video)
Technology Timeline: 1750 - 1990 (interactive)
New Ways of Doing Business (interactive)
The Standard Oil Trust (video)
John Davison Rockefeller
Steel Industry (video)
Andrew Carnegie (video)
Natural Resource Sites of the United States, c. 1890 (interactive)
Thomas Edison (video)
Technology Timeline: 1750 - 1990 (interactive)
New Ways of Doing Business (interactive)
The Standard Oil Trust (video)
John Davison Rockefeller
Steel Industry (video)
Andrew Carnegie (video)
New Immigrant
Foreign Immigrants in Industrial America
Liners to America
Immigrants From Europe (video)
The Irish Potato Famine (video)
Ellis Island
Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island (video)
Immigrants Detained at Ellis Island (video)
Angel Island
Chinese Immigration to the United States
Foreign-born Population in the U.S.
Liners to America
Immigrants From Europe (video)
The Irish Potato Famine (video)
Ellis Island
Immigrants Arriving at Ellis Island (video)
Immigrants Detained at Ellis Island (video)
Angel Island
Chinese Immigration to the United States
Foreign-born Population in the U.S.
Farmer in the West
How Ya' Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm?
Transcontinental Railroad (video)
The Growth of Railroads (interactive)
The Iron Road
Custer's Last Stand (video)
Wounded Knee Massacre (video)
Farming the American West, 1870 - 1900 (interactive)
The Farmers' Plight
The Farmers' Revolt
The Populists (video)
Transcontinental Railroad (video)
The Growth of Railroads (interactive)
The Iron Road
Custer's Last Stand (video)
Wounded Knee Massacre (video)
Farming the American West, 1870 - 1900 (interactive)
The Farmers' Plight
The Farmers' Revolt
The Populists (video)