Alabama Social Studies SS24.US1.17b
The Standard
- SS24.US1.17
- Analyze the push and pull factors contributing to the rapid growth of cities in the United States during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Explain how various reform and reactionary movements emerged in response to the challenges of urbanization and immigration.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students connect crowded housing, unsafe work, and hostility toward newcomers to the groups that formed in response. They explain how settlement houses, labor unions, and nativist groups pursued different goals.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain why Hull House offered services to immigrant families and why the Immigration Restriction League pushed for literacy tests. They can connect union organizing to unsafe factory work and name who benefited or faced barriers from each response.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think immigration literacy tests were meant to teach people to read, rather than block entry. They may blame immigrants for tenement crowding without considering low wages and limited housing.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one settlement house response to crowded city life and one nativist response to immigration. Explain who each response helped or excluded.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a tenement photo and a factory photo; have them attach sticky notes naming one problem and one group that addressed it.
Ask: Why did Hull House serve immigrant families while the Immigration Restriction League wanted literacy tests? Write a claim using one fact about each group.
Play a three-card match with tenement crowding, Hull House, child care; repeat with fear of immigrants, Immigration Restriction League, literacy tests.
Show a current city housing assistance flyer; students underline the problem it names and compare its services with Hull House's child care and classes.
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