University of Illinois
University of Illinois: Chinese Experience in 19th Century America
Extensive multi-instructional activity teaching unit focuses on the Chinese immigrant experience in the late 19th century.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Gilder Lehrman Institute: Immigration and Migration
[Free Registration/Login Required] A lengthy essay discussing the differing opinions about immigration and the role of immigrants in the United States in the latter half of the 19th century and the early 20th century. Find out about the...
Schools of California Online Resources for Education
Score: Nativism in 19th C. America
In this lesson, students explore the reasons people immigrated to America in the nineteenth century, the urban growth that resulted, the development of public education, the contributions of immigrants, the wave of nativism, and the...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: Irish and German Immigration
Read about the reasons thousands of Irish and Germans emigrated to the United States in the first half of the 19th century. Find out why there was a backlash to influx of so many immigrants, and learn about the Nativists who wanted to...
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Immigration
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the causes and consequences of historical events related to patterns of migration, immigration, and land use that influenced the cultural development of...
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Immigration & Urban Society: Late 19c: Quiz (1)
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers immigration in the late 19th century.
History Teacher
Historyteacher.net: Immigration & Urban Society: Late 19c: Quiz (2)
10-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and evaluates your comprehension of immigration the late 19th century.
Library of Congress
Loc: Legacy of French Canadian Immigrants in New England
Designed by American Memory Fellows Linda Hamel and Linda Hedrirck, this site explores the settlements of French Canadians in New England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It provides teachers complete lesson plans for 8...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: The Rush of Immigrants
Read about the new wave of immigrants who came to America in the late 19th century. See differences between these groups of immigrants and those who came earlier. Find out where immigrants settled, and read about those who did not...
Cleveland State University
Cleveland Memory Project: Irish Americans of Cleveland
Explore the influence of Irish Americans on the history and development of Cleveland with images, artifacts, and remembrances. Links to information about Irish Americans today.
Scholastic
Scholastic: New York Times Upfront: 1911: The Triangle Factory Fire
Article addresses the horror and the legacy of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire while examining the inhuman treatment of immigrants during the late 19th and early 20th Centuries.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: Modern Emigration
Essay on Dutch emigration in modern times. Rather than the mass emigration that occurred during the 19th Century, emigration during the 20th Century to U.S. and Canada was on more of an individual basis.
Other
Paul Yee: 'Dead Man's Gold and Other Stories' Teaching Guide [Pdf]
This teaching guide provided by Paul Yee for his book of short stories, "Tales from Gold Mountain", provides a summary of the book, discussion questions and classroom activities. The book explores the experiences of Chinese immigrants to...
University of Illinois
University of Illinois: The Chinese Experience: Chinese Exclusion
This lesson plan is from a larger unit examining the Chinese immigrant experience in America in the 19th century. Young scholars will examine actions that were taken to discriminate against the Chinese and exclude them from American...
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Freedom: A History of Us: Whose Land Is This? Webisode 8
From Joy Hakim's marvelous set of books, A History of US, this webisode offers narrative, pictures, and teaching guides for the settling of the West after the Civil War.
Digital History
Digital History: The Industrial Revolution [Pdf]
This site covers both the initial Industrial Revolution in the United States in the late 18th and early 19th centuries and the second revolution that highlighted new inventions and the businessmen who financed industry. Read brief...
Curated OER
German Immigrants Boarding a Ship for America in the Late 19th Century
This site from the Library of Congress provides a good overview of events relating to German immigrants provided in a timeline from 1608 to 1990.
University of Groningen
American History: Essays: The Iron Horse: Ideology
From a lengthy essay on the history of the railroad in the United States. This section describes the role of townsite agents who, in addition to helping plan a town, acted as 'information brokers' to advise would-be merchants of the...
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: From the Countryside to the City
The growth of cities was rapid in the last half of the 19th century. Read about the good things and bad things that were a result of this urbanization.
Other
Exploring Diversity: Rural Roads, City Streets: Italians in Pennsylvania [Pdf]
A great lesson plan that offers primary source materials to understand Italian immigration to Pennsylvania in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Other
On the Lower East Side: Observations of Life in Lower Manhattan
Links to contemporary essays about life on the Lower East Side of New York City in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These essays cover a range of topics and are well worth exploring to find out what problems writers were exposing...
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: Poetry of the West
This entry, from the Cambridge History of English and American Literature, provides a description of the poetry written in the second half of the nineteenth century by poets of the American West, namely Bret Harte. It examines common...
Curated OER
Unesco: Ecuador: Historic Centre of Santa Ana De Los Rios De Cuenca
Santa Ana de los Rios de Cuenca is set in a valley surrounded by the Andean mountains in the south of Ecuador. This inland colonial town (entroterra ), now the country's third city, was founded in 1557 on the rigorous planning guidelines...