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The Invention of the Steam Engine

For Students 9th - 10th
In short, readable paragraphs, students can easily follow the history of the invention of the steam engine.
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Psmre: The Northern Pacific Railway

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Puget Sound Model Railroad Engineers provides information about the history of the Northern Pacific Railway. The route follows the path Lewis and Clark took in 1804. Mentions cost, manpower, and other railroad companies.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Technology and Change

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Oultine of the changes in industry and technology during the 1800s, bringing tremendous growth of big business, urbanization and railroads.
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University of Groningen

American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Labor Conflicts and Unionism

For Students 9th - 10th
This several page chapter from the site From Revolution to Reconstruction outlines the growth of the union in the railroad industry in the late 19th century. Read about the strikes, working conditions, the beginning of the American...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Corporations and Cities

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Overview of the American industrial age growth of corporations and urbanization.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: j.p. Morgan and Finance Capitalism

For Students 9th - 10th
Overview on the rise of industry resulting in the need for investment banking, of which J. P. Morgan was a pioneer.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: The Struggles of Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
Outline of the struggles, conflict and violence experienced by 19th Century industrial workers.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Business Tycoons

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Ouline of the blooming business industry and the development of entrepreneurs, big business, and the pursuit of financial success in 19th Century America.
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Lands of Promise

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Outline about the promising economic times of an expanding America during the 1800s, including changes taking place in New England, the South, the Midwest and West.
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Alabama Learning Exchange

Alex: Spice Up the Nineteenth Century!

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students will make interactive outlines using the Internet of the reform movements, literature, trails, religion or technology of the early nineteenth century.
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Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Chapter 6: The Relatively Recent Arrival of Economic Growth

For Students 9th - 10th
By the end of this section, you will be able to do the following: Explain the conditions that have allowed for modern economic growth in the last two centuries and analyze the influence of public policies in the long-run economic growth...
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University of Groningen

American History: Outlines: Westward Expansion

For Students 9th - 10th
This article offers a detailed history of early 19th century westward migration and the social diversity of the pioneers moving west.
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Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Comission

Explore Pa History: Mining Anthracite

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the economic and historical impact of anthracite mining in Pennsylvania's rich history. Included in this historical account are video, interactive, audio, and pictorial artifacts.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Rise of Big Business

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This resource provides information about the rise of big business in America after the Civil War. Read about the modern corporation, increased mechanization, and consumer products.
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Lecture Notes: Textile Factories Come to the u.s.

For Students 9th - 10th
Clemson University provides a historical overview of the wave of textile factories, including Slater and Lowell, that cropped up in the northeast. Hyperlinks to additional information.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Today in History: December 20: First American Cotton Mill

For Students 9th - 10th
Library of Congress site gives a brief history and photo of the water-powered cotton mill that was built by Samuel Slater with links to related material for more in-depth study. Also, links to information about other historical events.
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Management wisdom.com: About Dr. W. Edwards Deming

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a general biography of Dr. W. Edwards Deming (1900-1993 CE).
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Harcourt: Biographies: Benjamin Bradley

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about inventor and African-American slave, Benjamin Bradley, developer of a steam engine large enough to run the first steam-powered warship.
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Digital History

Digital History: The Introduction of the Factory System

For Students 9th - 10th
The factory system revolutionized manufacturing and the employment of unskilled workers to man the factories. Read about the young children, women, and, later, immigrants who provided the labor to the textile mills and other...
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Digital History

Digital History: Labor Protests

For Students 9th - 10th
A sure sign that manufacturing was moving from the home to the factory was the organization of skilled workers to protest wage reductions and working conditions. Read about the tension between these skilled workers and their employers as...
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Digital History

Digital History: Social Mobility in the North

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the ideal of social equality in the North in the early and mid-1800s and determine if upward mobility was really a possibility for even unskilled laborers.
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Rutgers University

Rutgers University: Literary Resources: Victorian British

For Students 9th - 10th
Have you ever wanted to know more about British Victorian literature? Check out this informative site highlighting literary resources from the British Victorian Age. As Professor Jack Lynch, who created the list, has noted, these pages...
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PBS

Pbs: Age of Hope

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
Read and listen to two eyewitness interviews from people who have lived through the 20th century. What were their hopes for the world when they were young? Site includes detailed lesson plan.
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Other

Victoria Research Web

For Students 9th - 10th
Track the Victorian Age through this informative research site. This site contains several links to help bridge your knowledge of Victorian research. Don't miss out.

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