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Immigration, Urbanization, and Progressive Reforms

4th Grade · Social Studies · US-WV-SS

6 lessons

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Explore how mass immigration and rapid urbanization reshaped American cities, the hardships workers and immigrants faced, and the reforms created to address these challenges.

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  5. Working Conditions, Child Labor, and the Early Labor MovementNot started yet
  6. Progressive Era Reforms and Settlement HousesNot started yet
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us-wvSS.5.15West Virginia Social Studies Standards · All ages

Summarize the significance of large-scale immigration and the contributions of immigrants to America in the early 1900s (e.g., the countries from which they came, the opportunities and resistance they faced when they arrived and the cultural and economic contributions they made to this nation, etc.).