Extensive multi-lesson plan teaching unit focuses on the Chinese immigrant experience in the late 19th century.

This collection contains thousands of photographs from the Detroit Publishing Company and gives viewers the opportunity to explore America from the period of 1880 to 1920. Images include rural America, city life, men and women at work,...

Ninety-four primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the challenges, opportunity, and turmoil of late-nineteenth-century America. They examine the economic expansion in an America re-united...

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers immigration in the late 19th century.

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and evaluates your comprehension of immigration the late 19th century.

Annenberg Learner's series on Industrial Supremacy in America includes this map showing the major rail lines east of the Mississippi River in about 1880.

This 3rd grade unit introduces the history of industrialization in the United States in the late 19th century. The development of mechanization and assembly line processes, reliance on unskilled labor, and geographic concentration of...

See the wide range of gas-powered vehicles manufactured in America in the late 19th century. Click on each picture to read a detailed description of the vehicle, how it worked, and the history of its manufacture. From the Smithsonian...

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and exams your expertise in the intellectual, cultural, and social movements of the late 19th century.

After reading about the system of sharecropping or tenant farming for the African American in the South, look at poverty statistics for African Americans vs. whites between 1960 and 1990. Is there a corelation between the sharecropping...

You can't keep them down on the farm! Read about the glamour and allure of the city in the late 19th century where electricity and skyscrapers, along with other thechnological advances, enticed people into the city from the country.

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediatly scored and evaluates your profiency in 19th century culture, intellectual, ad social movements.

Objects can lead you to some interesting stories. Read and see where and how this toy-like locomotive was used. Cursor down to locate this information.

Links to contemporary essays about life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These essays cover a range of topics and are well worth exploring to find out what problems writers were exposing...

10-question multiple choice quiz is self scored and tests your comprehension of westward expansion in America in the late 19th century.

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of industry and the labor movement in the late 19th century.

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and assesses your knowledge of westward expansion in the late 19th century.

10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of industry and the labor movement in the late 19th century.

This 10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and tests your knowledge of the labor movement in the late 19th century.

Pick the correct answer from the drop down menu to see what you know about big business and the labor movement in the late 19th century.

Read about the new wave of immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century. See differences between these groups of immigrants and those who came earlier. Find out where immigrants settled, and read about those who did not...

This site covers both the initial Industrial Revolution in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the second revolution that highlighted new inventions and the businessmen who financed industry. Read brief...

This site from the Library of Congress provides a good overview of events relating to German immigrants provided in a timeline from 1608 to 1990.

Kaiping Diaolou and Villages feature the Diaolou, multi-storeyed defensive village houses in Kaiping, which display a complex and flamboyant fusion of Chinese and Western structural and decorative forms. They reflect the significant role...