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K-12 Objectives:

• Formulate historical questions from encounters with historical documents.
• Demonstrate understanding of the first era of American industrialization by analyzing how rapid industrialization, immigration, and industrialization disrupted the social fabric of early 19th-century cities.
• Summarize causes and effects of the Industrial Revolution, with emphasis on new inventions and industrial production methods. Develop skills in historical analysis, including the ability to analyze documents, records, and data, formulate historical questions and defend findings based on inquiry and interpretation
• Identify and use various sources for reconstructing the past, such as letters, diaries, maps, textbooks, photos, and others.