The Development of the Industrial U.S.

1870-1900

Transcontinental Railroad and Settling the West I Hear the Locomotives: The Impact of the Transcontinental Railroad
Lesson Plan for grades 3-5 from EDSITEment
http://edsitement.neh.gov/view_lesson_plan.asp?id=253
Congress and the Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/treasures_of_congress/page_15.html#
Central Pacific Railroad
Photographic History Museum
http://cprr.org/
Driving the Last Spike
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist1/rail.html
Chinese American Contribution to the Transcontinental Railroad
http://cprr.org/Museum/Chinese.html
The Iron Road
Teaching suggestions for the PBS film
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/iron/index.html
The Transcontinental Railroad
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson01.htm
American Western History Museums
http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/index_americanwest_museums.html

Inventions and Inventors American Inventions and Inventors
http://www.150.si.edu/150trav/remember/amerinv.htm
Inventors and Inventions
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/
The Greatest Inventions and Inventors
http://tqjunior.thinkquest.org/5847/
Thomas Edison: American Inventor
http://www2.lucidcafe.com/lucidcafe/lucidcafe/library/96feb/edison.html
Alexander Graham Bell's Path to the Telephone
http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/albell/homepage.html

Growing Cities America 1900
Teaching suggestions for the PBS film
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/1900/tguide/index.html
1900s
Decade Days: Exploring 20th Century America
http://www.kdkragen.com/decadedays/My_Webs/myweb/1900s.htm#entre
The Rise of Industrial America
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/riseof.html

Immigration

Immigration to the U.S., 1851-1900
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/ndlpedu/features/timeline/riseind/immgnts/immgrnts.html
Asian American Immigration
http://www.factmonster.com/spot/immigration1.html

Please send comments, questions, suggestions, or any broken links to
John David Shanks,
Gifted Education Teacher, Greene County Schools