Occupations in the 1860s

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Assessment for K-12:

  1. Write a research paper on American artisans in the nineteenth century, drawing on a variety of sources.
  2. Use the Valley of the Shadow census search page to find characteristics of different occupational groups and to write a comparison between at least two of them. For example, students could compare bakers and blacksmiths, or seamstresses and maids



Center for Technology and Teacher Education, University of Virginia,
This module created by Alice Carter of the University of Virginia..