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This Reshaping American Society: How did Immigration and Urbanization Affect America in the mid 1800s? lesson plan also includes:
- Reshaping American Society: How did Immigration and Urbanization Affect America in the mid 1800s? (.html)
- Resource Sheet #1: Views of Baltimore 1831 and 1850 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2: Coming to America - Worksheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #3: Coming to America - Documents (.pdf)
- Resources Sheet #4: Daily Summary Sheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #5: Population of New York City 1790-1860 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #6: Urbanization: Examining Life in Lowell, MA and New York City, NY - Documents (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #7: Urbanization: Examining Life in Lowell, MA and New York City, NY - Worksheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #8: Know-Nothing Movement (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #9: Bible Riots (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #10: Reform Movements - Worksheet (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #11: Reform Movements - Documents (.pdf)
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From the Know-Nothings to the Bible Riots, immigration and urbanization changed the face of America in the middle of the 1800s. Using documents that range from immigrant experiences to renderings of violent conflict between immigrants and nativists, scholars describe the effects of these trends, as well as the reform movement. A final assessment asks pupils to write a newspaper article describing how life changed during the period.
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- Offer as a quick way to cover the issues involved in urbanization and immigration in the 1800s
- Great to use as a capstone project on immigration and urbanization
Classroom Considerations
- Activity is lengthy, but it's easy to adapt to fit a shorter window of time
Pros
- Activity is comprehensive and has a rich variety of documents
- Scaffolded analysis activities make individual exercises easily adaptable to a variety of class members
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- None