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NCHS-4-2-A
The student understands how the factory system and the transportation and market revolutions shaped regional patterns of economic development
Resources:
History as Destiny: The Case of New York City
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Colonial City: Revolutionary Battleground
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Urban Crisis: Fire and Water
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The Old South
Resource Type: Primary Source Five Points, the great slum of antebellum New York, was located at the convergence of Worth, Baxter, and Park Streets in present-day lower Manhattan. Its residents suffered terribly during the cholera epidemic of 1832. Petition to Have the Five Points Opened Resource Type: Primary Source Merchants owning property along the periphery of Five Points petitioned the municipal government in 1829 to demolish the heart of the slum by widening and extending Anthony and Cross Streets. Daily Tally of Cholera Victims Resource Type: Primary Source Due to overcrowding and poor sanitation, the Five Points slum suffered numerous casualties during outbreaks of disease, as this daily report taken during the 1832 cholera epidemic makes clear. Charles Dickens on the Five Points Resource Type: Primary Source The famed British writer Charles Dickens published his account of his 1842 visit to America, where he found evidence of England's superior class system in the squalor of New York's Five Points slum. Sunshine and Shadow in New York Resource Type: Primary Source Sunshine and Shadow in New York, a mid-nineteenth-century publication, depicts New York City as two polar societies, one affluent and vibrant, and one poor and diseased. Urban Society: Central Park and Social Reform Resource Type: Document-Based Question This microhistory of Central Park in New York City provides students with a laboratory for learning how social reformers attempted to clean the city of its slums and promote the well-being of its residents. These tools can be applied to the study of any large city. The Master-Slave Relationship Resource Type: Document-Based Question The recent scholarship on slavery explores the complex relationship between master and slave and re-examines the historical agency of slaves. In reading the slave narratives provided in this DBQ, students can assess how slaves tried to retain their dignity in the worst of circumstances. Letter from a Slaveowner Resource Type: Primary Source In this letter, Henry Tayloe, a slaveowner, reveals to his brother the interest of Southern slaveholders in the institution of slavery. Slaves Picking Cotton Resource Type: Primary Source In this illustration, slaves are shown picking cotton while overseers watch from horseback. The Cotton Kingdom: The Industrial Revolution Resource Type: Primary Source Power loom weaving in a New England textile factory. The leather belts transmitted power from a central waterwheel or a steam engine. Cities Deal with Water Resource Type: Primary Source The Oceanus logo, which the Bank of the Manhattan Company carried over from its origins as a water business. | |
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