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The Dark Side of Industrialization: A 7th Grade Humanities Exploration

Discover the negative impacts of the Industrial Revolution through the lens of muckrakers like Jacob Riis and Upton Sinclair. Explore issues like inequality, child labor, and unsafe working conditions. Learn about the lasting effects of industrialization on society.

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The Dark Side of Industrialization: A 7th Grade Humanities Exploration

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  1. The Negatives of Industrialization Mr. Mizell, Mr. Tubbs, Ms. Hatling: 7th Grade Humanities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHF_BWfSPik

  2. EQ: What were the negative effects of the Industrial Revolution?

  3. More Inequality: The Rich Get Richer

  4. How the Other Half Lives • Jacob Riis – journalist who exposed the slums and poverty of the cities • Considered a “muckraker”

  5. Meat Packing Industry • Upton Sinclair • Muckraker who investigated the meat packing industry in Chicago • Wrote The Jungle

  6. Child Labor in the late 1800s and early 1900s

  7. What about today?

  8. Around 250 million Child Laborers in the world (2011)

  9. Directions • Read the sources on the negatives of industrialization and answer the questions that go along with it • This will be taken up for a grade

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