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Use the question handout to analyze each slide in regards to the Industrial Age.

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THEY WILL SAY

Of my city the worst that men will ever say is this:You took little children away from the sun and the dew,

And the glimmers that played in the grass under the great sky,

And the reckless rain; you put them between wallsTo work, broken and smothered, for bread and wages,

To eat dust in their throats and die empty-heartedFor a little handful of pay on a few Saturday nights

-Carl Sandburg

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Sixteen Tons

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It was hard in the mining camps to live. Course, they went to the mines and they didn’t get very much pay. They had to come out on strike to have them raise the pay. Then we had to buy everything at the store, at the company store. The pay was only scrip money, like the stamps that they give here now, they were just a little different, you know, but they purchased stuff at the store. You couldn’t go to Trinidad to buy anything. You had to buy everything at the store, with your scrips. If anybody would go down to Trinidad and buy something in Trinidad, then when they’d come home if the superintendent found out, next morning they would have their check typed. They would have to move away from there, no more work. That was pretty tough. Life in the Colorado Mining Camps by Beatrice Nagare

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Long ago it was said that “one half of the world does not know how the other half lives.” That was true then. It did not know because it did not care. The half that was on top cared little for the struggles, and less for the fate of those who were underneath, so long as it was able to hold them there and keep its own seat. Of one thing New York made sure at the early stage of the inquiry: the boundary line of the Other Half lie through the tenements. Today three-fourths of its people live in the tenements, and the nineteenth century drift of the population of the cities is sending ever-increasing multitudes to crowd them. The fifteen thousand tenant houses that were the despair of the sanitarian in the past generation have swelled into thirty-seven thousand, and more than twelve hundred thousand persons call them home. We now know that there is no way out; that the “system: that was the evil offspring of public neglect and private greed has come to stay, a storm-centre forever of our civilization. Nothing is left but to make the best of a bad bargain. Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Livesw

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CULMINATING ACTIVITYWrite three paragraphs about the Industrial Age.

Paragraph 1- What did you learn about the economy of the Industrial Age? 4-5 sentences.

Paragraph 2-What did you learn about the people of the Industrial Age? 4-5 sentences.

Paragraph 3-What did you learn about the living environment of the Industrial Age? 4-5 sentences.

Turn in the paragraphs to the appropriate folder once you have finished.

Be prepared for a class discussion on this activity!!