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Task
• Answer the questions and be prepared to discuss your responses with the class.
• Objective: Students will evaluate primary source document from the Big Business Era.
• Relevance: The industrial boom is the basis for America becoming a World Power in the 20th century.
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4,000,000
5,000,000
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1871-1880
1881-1890
1891-1900
1901-1910
1911-1920
Old
New
Chart: Rise of Immigrants
(Comprehension) 1) Write two facts that you can learn from this chart.
(Comprehension) 2) What areas have the highest and lowest concentrations of immigrants?(Analyze) 3) What would you attribute this discrepancy to?
RELIGION
BIRTHPLACE
REASONS
DESTINATION
OCCUPATION
RELIGION
BIRTHPLACE
REASONS
DESTINATION
OCCUPATION
Protestant Catholic and Jewish
North/Western Southern/Eastern Europe Europe
Both escaping poverty, religious and political persecution
Moved to farms Moved to cities in the in the Midwest Northeast
Became farmers Unskilled workers
Protestant Catholic and Jewish
North/Western Southern/Eastern Europe Europe
Both escaping poverty, religious and political persecution
Moved to farms Moved to cities in the in the Midwest Northeast
Became farmers Unskilled workers
Old vs New Immigrants
(Analyze) 4. Write a comparison statement about Old and New Immigrants, based on the information in the chart.
(Analyze) 5. What is the meaning of this cartoon?
(Evaluate) 6. “What weight can my vote have against this flood of ignorance, stupidity and fraud?” Explain the meaning of this quote, based on the political cartoon.
(Comprehension): 7. What is the main idea of this political cartoon?(Evaluate): 8. Explain how this represents the feelings towards immigrants of many in the US in the late 1800’s.
(Analyze) 9. Explain the meaning of this cartoon.
Cartoon: Immigration
(Comprehension): What is the main idea of this political cartoon?(Evaluate): Explain how this represents the feelings towards immigrants of many in the US in the late 1800’s.
Immigrants being used
(Evaluate): 11. Interpret the documents main points.
Homework (20 points)(Create)
• Option A: Write a story from the perspective of the children in the picture on the previous slide. (1 page in length)
• Option B: Create a politcal cartoon about the Big Business Era (1 blank page in size)