Primary Source Activities: Impact of Industrialization on the Ohio and Erie Canals
Author: Monty Maceyko
Grade(s): 10
Description
Students will be examine and analyze the impact of industrialization on the Ohio and Erie Canals. They will complete a document analysis worksheet for two photographs from Ohio Memory by the end of the period. Then students will take the role as a worker on the canals and create a journal entry detailing the workerÂ’s reaction to the changing landscape and the impact of railroads and industrialization. Minimum of two paragraphs.
Standards
- History 9-10, Benchmark B: Explain the social, political and economic effects of industrialization.
- Indicator: Grade 10, GLI 1. Explain the effects of industrialization in the United States in the 19th century including: a. Changes in work and the workplace; b. Immigration and child labor and their impact on the labor force; c. Modernization of agriculture; d. Urbanization; e. The emergence of a middle class and its impact on leisure, art, music, literature and other aspects of culture.
- Geography 9-10, Benchmark B: Analyze geographic changes brought about by human activity using appropriate maps and other geographic data.
- Indicator: Grade 10, GLI 2. Describe how changes in technology, transportation and communication affect the location and patterns of economic activities and use of productive resources.
