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Background Essay on Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
This essay explains the significance of young female immigrants in the labor upheavals that helped define the Progressive Era.
Item Type: Article/Essay
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Active Viewing: Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl
In this activity, students watch the documentary Heaven Will Protect the Working Girl in sections, with documents and exercises designed to support and reinforce the film's key concepts: workers challenging the effects of industrial capitalism, the [...]
Tags: Active Viewing, Common Core Reading, Group Work, Italian Immigration, Jewish Immigration, Progressivism
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)
Immigrants by the Numbers
In this activity, students work with quantitative data (charts, graphs, and tables) from the 1910 census and the 1911 Dillingham Commission Report to understand the lives of immigrants in the Ellis Island era. The activity includes an option [...]
Tags: Common Core Reading, Delving into Data, Irish Immigration, Italian Immigration, Jewish Immigration, Reading Supports
Item Type: Teaching Activity
Historical Era: Industrialization and Expansion (1877-1913)