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Curriculum Handouts & Other Materials
Curriculum Handouts & Other Materials
- The Colonial Period to 1763
- Documents:
- Appraisal of slaves belonging to Robert Carters in 1732.
- A familiar advertisement from a Charleston, S.C. newspaper in 1766. Africans of the Windward Coast were known for their knowledge of rice cultivation. The Laurens referred to later became president of the Continental Congress (Henry Laurens).
- Advertisement for help finding a runaway slave in the Virginia Gazette in 1767.
- Advertisement requesting aid in apprehending three runaway indentured servants.
- Official article of indenture from 1768.
- Court document from Chester, England that commutes a death sentence to transportation to America and ultimately indentured servitude.
- Documents:
- The Revolutionary Era: 1763-1789
- The Growth of a New Nation: 1789-1830
- Lesson 3: The Working Men's Declaration of Independence, 1829.
- Materials: Lesson 3 Handout
- Lesson 3: The Working Men's Declaration of Independence, 1829.
- Expansion and Sectionalism: 1830-1850
- Lesson 4: Slavery.
- Lesson 5: Problems facing workers
- Lesson 6: Ten Hour Day.
- Lesson 7: Lowell.
- The Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1877
- Lesson 8: Cost of Living 1851.
- Lesson 9: Slavery.
- handout 1
- handout 2
- Lesson 10: The Contract Labor Law.
- The Industrial Revolution and the Progressive Era: 1877-1913
- The First World War: 1914-1920
- The Roaring Twenties: 1921-1929
- The Great Depression: 1929-1939
- The Second World War: 1939-1945
- Post War America: 1946-Present
"And I long to see the day when Labor will have the destiny of the nation in her own hands and she will stand as a united force and show the world what the workers can do." --- Mary Harris "Mother" Jones, 1830-1930
Illinois Labor History Society