Oklahoma Social Studies MWH.C.5.2.C
The Standard
- MWH.C.5
- Analyze the massive social, economic, and cultural change brought about by the Industrial Revolution.
- MWH.C.5.2
- Analyze responses to and the legacy of the Industrial Revolution.
Examine the concept of economic interventionism (e.g., economic protectionism, child labor laws, legislation for old age pensions, health insurance).
Oklahoma Academic Standards for Social Studies (2026) · MWH.C.5.2
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students identify ways governments stepped into economies during industrialization. They explain why leaders used tariffs, child labor laws, pensions, and health insurance, and who each policy affected.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a policy, a student can name the problem it aimed to solve and explain how it changed choices for businesses or workers. They can compare a tariff with a child labor law without treating either as a free-market policy.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think intervention only means government spending money, missing laws that restrict employers or tax imports. They may think tariffs pay workers directly, or that early pensions and health insurance covered everyone.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: A country taxes imported cloth and bans factory work for children under 14. For each action, name its goal and one group it affects.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs policy cards and factory owner, parent, and worker cards; have them match each policy to someone it affects and explain how.
Ask: Should lawmakers ban work for children under 14 in a 1900 textile mill? Write a parent's and an owner's responses.
Play a matching round: pair tariff, child labor ban, pension, and health insurance cards with problem cards, then defend one match.
Show a current child labor rules poster and a 1900 textile mill photo; ask which risks the poster addresses.
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