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Industrialization DBQ
This question is based on the accompanying documents. This question is designed to
test your ability to work with historical documents. Some of the documents have been
edited for the purposes of the question. As you analyze the documents, take into
account both the sources of each document and any point of view that may be
presented in the document.

Historical Context:
In the late 1800's and early 1900s, the United States experienced a period of rapid and
widespread growth in manufacturing and technology called Industrialization.

Task:
Using the information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer
the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will
help you write the Part B essay, in which you will be asked to:

Discuss the effects of Industrialization on the following two groups of Americans:

Consumers

Factory Workers

Part A: Short-Answer Questions

Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the short-answer questions that follow
each document in the space provided.
Document 1

1a. What method of transportation is shown in the cartoon?______________________

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b. What were two advantages of shipping products this way?
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(2) ___________________________________________________________________
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Document 2
Photograph of Workers on Henry Fords Assembly Line in the Early 1900s

Source: http://history.grand-forks.k12.nd.us/NDhistory/LessonImages/Sources/Pictures/assembly%20line.jpg

2a. What manufacturing process is illustrated in the photograph? [1] ______________

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b. What is the advantage of manufacturing products this way? [1] _________________
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c. What is the disadvantage of manufacturing products this way? [1] _______________
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Document 3
Major Inventions: 1876-1903
Year
1876
1876
1879
1888
1893
1894
1899
1903

Invention
Telephone
Phonograph
Efficient Lightbulb
Kodak Camera
Gas Powered Automobile
Motion Pictures
Motorized Vacuum Cleaner
Airplane

Inventor
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
George Eastman
Charles & Frank Duryea
Thomas A. Edison
John Thurman
Orville & Wilbur Wright

Source: Adapted from The American Nation, Davidson, Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2005

2a. What is this chart about? [1] ______________________________________

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b. Explain how two inventions from this chart affected peoples lives:
(1) Invention: _______________________ Effect: _____________________________
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(2) Invention: _______________________ Effect: _____________________________
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Document 4
Cartoon about Trusts, 1902

Source: The New York Journal, 1902, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC

3a. What trust (monopoly) is pictured in the cartoon above? ______________________

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b. Based on the cartoon, describe one effect trusts (monopolies) had on consumers. __
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c. Identify one way the federal government responded to trusts that monopolized trade.
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Document 5
The following passage, adapted from a 1907 magazine article,
describes the lives of working immigrant children:
All the year in New York and in other cities you may watch children
coming and going from pitiful sweatshops. Nearly any hour on the
East Side of New York you can see thempale boy and bone-thin
girltheir faces always dull. Their backs are bent under a heavy load
of garments piled on head and shoulders, their muscles straining. The
boy always has bowlegs and walks with feet wide apart and wobbling.
Once at work in the shop, the little worker sits close to an inadequate
window and sews, struggling with the snarls of thread or shoving the
needle through the unwieldy cloth. Even if by happy chance the small
worker goes to school, the sewing which he or she puts down at the
last moment in the morning awaits his or her returnFor all this, a
child may add to the family purse from 50 cents to $1.50 a week.
Source: Adapted from an Edwin Markham article in Cosmopolitan, January 1907, as reprinted in Out of the
Sweatshop: the Struggle for Industrial Democracy, The New York Times Book Company, 1977

5a. What is this document about? __________________________________________

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b. Describe two examples of working conditions for immigrant children in the early 1900s:
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c. Why did factory owners hire so many children? Explain. _______________________
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Part B: Essay
Directions: Write a well-organized essay that includes an introduction, several
paragraphs, and a conclusion. Use evidence from all of the documents in the body of
the essay. Support your response with relevant facts, examples, and details. Include
additional related information.

Historical Context:
In the late 1800's and early 1900s, the United States experienced a period of rapid and
widespread growth in manufacturing and technology called Industrialization.

Task:
Using the information from the documents and your knowledge of social studies, answer
the questions that follow each document in Part A. Your answers to the questions will
help you write the Part B essay, in which you will be asked to:

Discuss the effects of Industrialization on the following two groups of Americans:

Consumers

Factory Workers

Guidelines
In your essay, be sure to:

Address all aspects of the Task by accurately analyzing and interpreting

ALL of the documents

Incorporate information from the documents in the body of the essay

Incorporate relevant outside information

Support the theme with relevant facts, examples, and details

Use a logical and clear plan of organization

Introduce the theme by establishing a framework that is beyond a simple

restatement of the Task or Historical Context and conclude with a
summation of the theme