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Industrialization DBQ Documents
Directions: Respond to the following questions using the documents provided and your knowledge of the
Industrial Revolution.
Document #1-Triangle Shirtwaiste Factory Fire
The following article appeared in the New York Times the day after the Triangle Factory Fire:
“Cecelia Walker, 20 years old…slid down the cable at the Washington Place elevator and escaped with burned
hands and body bruises. She was on the eighth floor of the building when the fire started. Running over to the
elevator shaft she rang for the car, but it did not come. As she passed the sixth floor sliding on the cable she
became unconscious…and does not know what happened until she reached St. Vincent’s Hospital, where she is
now.”
“’A girl and I,…were on the eighth floor, and when I ran for the elevator shaft my girl friend started for the
window on the Washington Street side. I looked around to call her but she had gone…’”
-The New York Times, March 26, 1911
1) From what newspaper was this article taken?
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2) What event is Cecelia Walker discussing in the above passage?
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3) The event discussed above led to the establishment of what types of groups to help industrial workers?
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Document #2-Child Labor
-Lewis Hine, photographer
1) Describe two problems with Industrialization shown in Lewis Hine’s photograph.
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2) Explain why children were used for labor in America’s Industrial factories in the nineteenth century.
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Document #3-Railroads in the United States
1) Which railroad giant is portrayed in the above cartoon?
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2) What message is this cartoon sending about this leaders’ relationship with the railroads?
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3) What term describes this total control that a business has over an industry?
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Document #4-Captain of Industry or Robber Baron?
Andrew Carnegie’s Philanthropy (cartoon #1)
Andrew Carnegie’s Fortune (cartoon #2)
1) Who is the man pictured in both cartoons?
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2) Who is this man preaching to in cartoon #2?
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3) What message is cartoon #1 sending about what type of business owner this man was?
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4) How is the artists’ message in cartoon #2 different from that portrayed in cartoon #1?
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