| Unit 4:
Growing Cities and Immigration Frameworks for America's Past |
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| Unit 4:
Growing Cities and Immigration Frameworks for America's Past |
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Click
on the links below -
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Historical
photo sets |
1.
Urbanization: Growing
cities 2. Immigration - Ellis Island and Angel Island 3. Tenement buildings and overcrowding 4. Immigrants: Welcomed. . . or not? 5. Jane Addams and settlement houses 6. Big city "political machines" |
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| History
food feature |
Making sourdough bread and peanut butter cookies in a wood burning stove! |
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| Exploring
further |
From primary sources: Jane Addams Works for Better Cities | ||||||
| YouTube
videos and Internet sites  Students: Check with your parents for permission before visiting Internet links. |
Growing cities and
immigration - late 1800s and early 1900s
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segment from The Century: America's Time - Seeds of Change (2 of
3). Watch from 11:02 to 14:48, and continue on to the next
segment (part 3 of 3), from 0:00 to 4:30. Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island - 2 Minute Tour (a short video) Ellis Island oral (spoken) histories (a video with three short but emotionally powerful accounts by immigrants telling their memories of arriving in America.) Tenement Museum (a video about the popular museum that shows what life was like for people living in tenement buildings in the Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City during the late 1800s and early 1900s) San Francisco, 1906 - trolley ride and street scenes (a video with rare old film footage - the music was added in recent times) Maps - Immigration patterns: 1870 - 1880 - 1890 - 1900 (This online historical atlas lets you click on the timeline to change the year, and get immigration data for specific counties / cities.) Music: Spanish Lady This is an old Irish song that came to America with the immigrants from that land. Another is Siúil a Rúin (Walk My Love), with lyrics partly in the old Irish language, and partly in English. Red is the Rose is a traditional Irish song that tells of a relationship sadly ended, perhaps when a girl and her family immigrated to America from Ireland in the 1800s. Irish music had a big influence on the development of American musical styles. |
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| Consider also: |
America:
The Story of Us TV
mini-series, Episode 7, "Cities," has good video segments about
life in
New York City in the late 1800s and early 1900s. This widely
praised production originally ran on the History Channel. Less
than $20 on Amazon for the 3 DVD set. Topics in this episode
include:
The myth of name changing at Ellis Island An article from the New York Public Library shows that the claim about immigrants' names often being changed at Ellis Island is not true. "No Irish" signs - did they really exist? This article originally published in the Journal of Social History (2002) by a well-known historian argues that if they existed at all, they were very rare. |
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