A New Industrial Age Internet Assignment
Directions: Complete all six assignments below
Assignment 1: Inventions and Industry Video
Directions:
Click on the Camera to the left to view the video “Inventions
and Industry” and answer the discussion questions. Click the button
below to download and print the
discussion questions. You may either write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper or type them in Microsoft Word and print them out at the end
of the lesson. It is recommended that you save the file to your desktop for
easier viewing.
Assignment 2: Child Labor in America Photographs
Background - Photographer Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) …was a teacher who took up photography as a means of expressing his social concerns….. From 1908 to 1912, Hine took his camera across America to photograph children as young as three years old working for long hours, often under dangerous conditions, in factories, mines, and fields….. In 1909, he published the first of many photo essays depicting working children at risk… Some of his images, such as the young girl in the mill glimpsing out the window, are among the most famous photographs ever taken….Some boys and girls were so small they had to climb up on to the spinning frame to mend broken threads and to put back the empty bobbins…. The dust was so dense at times as to obscure the view…. This dust penetrated the utmost recesses of the boys' lungs…. A kind of slave-driver sometimes stands over the boys, prodding or kicking them into obedience…. Oyster shuckers working in a canning factory…. All but the very smallest babies work…. Began work at 3:30 a.m. and expected to work until 5 p.m. – from The History Place: Child Labor in America 1908-1912
Directions: Choose one of the following photographs taken by Lewis W. Hine and complete a Photograph Analysis Worksheet. To enlarge the photographs click on them, and to download and print the photograph analysis worksheet click the button below the photographs.
Assignment 3: Vocabulary
Directions:
Read the
New York Regents web page on Industrial reform and define the terms on
the vocabulary assignment. First, click on the image to the right to access
the New York Regents web page. Next, download and print out the
vocabulary
assignment by clicking on the button below. You may answer using
Microsoft Word and print them out at the end of the lesson, or print out the
assignment and write the answers in pen or pencil. *note: use the New York
Regents definitions and do NOT Google the words to come up with a definition
because it may not be the correct meaning or may be used in the wrong
historical context.
Assignment 4: "Engines of Our Ingenuity" Audio Analysis
Background - The University of Houston's College of Engineering presents this series about the machines that make our civilization run, and the people whose ingenuity created them. This broadcast is about Thomas Nast, the father of American political cartoons… Of all Nast's causes, America can best thank him for what he did in 1871. An old patriotic organization called the Tammany Society controlled New York. It was run by the infamous William Tweed and three shrewd cronies. No one did business without paying bribes to Tweed's gang. They bled huge sums of money from citizens. Their theft ran up a debt New Yorkers were still paying well into this century….Tweed wasn't worried about what the papers wrote. Few of the people he was robbing could read, anyway. But Nast created a whole new visual vocabulary of political assault (the political cartoon) -- Tweed's thumb lowered on New York City, Tweed with a sack of money for a head, Tammany underlings portrayed as slaves. A Tammany agent finally showed up and offered Nast $100,000 for a long art-study trip to Europe. Nast refused, and the offer rose. When he turned down a half million dollars, they threatened his life instead. Nast held on. He succeeded in bringing legal processes to bear on Tweed and his gang. Within months they were all either in jail or on the run. From Engines of Our Ingenuity, No.912, Thomas Nast
Directions:
Click on the image to the left to play the audio broadcast of
Engines of Our Ingenuity,
No.912, Thomas Nast. First, open the Sound Analysis Worksheet by
clicking on the button below. Next, listen to the audio broadcast and fill
out the worksheet. If you have trouble listening to the audio for some
reason open a written transcript by clicking on the transcript button below
Assignment 5: Political Cartoon Analysis
Directions: Choose one of the following political cartoons and complete a Cartoon Analysis Worksheet. To enlarge the political cartoons click on them, and to download and print the cartoon analysis worksheet click the button below the political cartoons.
Assignment 6: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Questions
Directions:
Browse the Triangle Factory Fire website page and answer the discussion
questions. First click the image to the left to open the
Triangle
Factory Fire website. Next, open the
questions by clicking on the button below. You may either write your
answers on a separate sheet of paper or type them in Microsoft Word and
print them out at the end of the lesson.
