California History Standard
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization, large- scale rural-tourban migration, and massive immigration from Southern and Eastern Europe.
11.2.1 Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions, including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle.
11.2.2 Describe the changing landscape, including the growth of cities linked by industry and trade, and the development of cities divided according to race, ethnicity, and class.
Common Core State Standard
Key Ideas and Details
1. Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, connecting insights gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
2. Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary that makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
3. Evaluate various explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters uncertain.
Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
7. Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
9. Integrate information from diverse sources, both primary and secondary, into a coherent understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
Guiding Questions
Argumentative: What was the most significant cause of urban living conditions? Why?
Informative: What were the causes of urban living conditions and how did they influence the American landscape?
Primary Source Documents
HOT Lesson - Gold on the Sidewalk
IMAGE 6: The courtyard of a tenement building in New York City
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UCI History Project, 2012 | 431 Social Science Tower | Irvine, CA | 92697-2505 http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/

HOT Lesson - Gold on the Sidewalk
IMAGE 6: The courtyard of a tenement building in New York City
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UCI History Project, 2012 | 431 Social Science Tower | Irvine, CA | 92697-2505 http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/

State Historical Society of Wisconsin, Children play ball in a New York immigrant district .
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Library of Congress, Fourteen year old spinner in a Brazos Valley Cotton Mill at West.
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Library of Congress, Night Scene, in an Indianapolis Glass Works.
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State Historical Society of Wisconsin, New York tenement district popularly known as the Pig Market
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UCI History Project, 2012 | 431 Social Science Tower | Irvine, CA | 92697-2505 http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/

Library of Congress, Solvay Process Co.'s works, Syracuse
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Serial: The Atlantic Monthly Volume 0043 Issue 260 (June 1879)
Title: Study of a New England Factory Town [pp. 689-705]
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Library of Congress, Something New Starts Every Day (song sheet)
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UCI History Project, 2012 | 431 Social Science Tower | Irvine, CA | 92697-2505 http://www.humanities.uci.edu/history/ucihp/