Indiana Social Studies IS.1.10
The Standard
Summarize the impact immigration had on social movements of the era including the contributions of specific individuals and groups.
2026 Indiana Academic Standards: K-12 Social Studies · Industrialization and Immigration in Indiana: 1865 to 1900
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students explain how immigrants and their children shaped labor and temperance campaigns in Indiana between 1865 and 1900. They name a group or person, describe what they did, and explain the change they wanted.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can explain how immigrant workers helped press for better pay and hours. They can identify English-born Samuel Gompers as an AFL leader and Terre Haute's Eugene V. Debs as the son of French immigrants who led the American Railway Union.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may call Debs an immigrant, though he was born in Indiana. They may assume all immigrants supported unions or temperance, rather than recognizing that people took different sides.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: How did immigrant workers shape a labor campaign? Name one person or group, what they did, and what they wanted to change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs cards labeled German brewers, immigrant railroad workers, Gompers, and Debs; have them sort the cards by temperance or labor campaigns.
Ask students to write two sentences explaining why German brewers might oppose temperance laws while railroad workers pushed for shorter hours.
Play a match-up game pairing Gompers with the AFL, Debs with the American Railway Union, and each group with one goal.
Show a current Indiana union contract headline and ask students which worker demands would sound familiar to an 1890s railroad worker.
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