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Working Conditions, Labor Unions, and Early Strikes
Investigate hazardous factory conditions, child labor, and the rise of organized labor organizations such as the Knights of Labor and AFL.
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Industrialization, Innovation, and Social Change
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Analyze how technological innovations, industrial expansion, urbanization, and labor movements transformed American society and Wyoming.
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Learning standards covered
SS8.3.1Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeIdentify and apply basic economic concepts (e.g., supply, demand, production, exchange and consumption, labor, wages, scarcity, prices, incentives, competition, and profits).
SS8.4.4Wyoming Social Studies Standards · 5th GradeIdentify historical interactions between and among individuals, groups, and/or institutions (e.g., family, neighborhood, political, economic, religious, social, cultural, and workplace).