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Here are the teacher pack items for Labor Reform:
Overview Estimated Duration: 45–60 minutes Vocabulary Words and Definitions Objectives:
This experience introduces several terms that are central to understanding early labor reform, and students will rely on them across multiple scenes. Reviewing these definitions ahead of the Explore and Explain scenes can help students enter the content with confidence and focus more deeply on the historical patterns they are analyzing.
To go further, consider creating a class timeline by having students research key events in the early labor movement and produce short summaries with accompanying images to place along a shared chronological display. This visual sequence can help students discuss how different groups responded to workplace problems and contributed to emerging solutions across the period.
Early industrialization reshaped how goods were produced and how people worked, creating new kinds of jobs and expanding cities. These changes also affected the conditions under which people worked, leading to new experiences in the workplace.
Women working in a match factory
Look at the image and think about what it shows about working conditions in factories and mills during the mid-1800s. Add one word to the word wall that describes what those conditions were like.
When reviewing the word wall, help students connect the terms to what they learned about early industrialization by discussing how work and daily life shifted during this period. Ask students to share the details from the image that support their ideas. Then, guide students to recognize overall themes, such as harsh or unsafe conditions and major changes in how people earned a living by asking: What patterns do you notice across these words? and What do these terms suggest about what life was like for many workers? Help students recall how new machines and factory systems created fast-paced workplaces where owners focused on lowering costs.
In this experience, you will learn how workers responded to the challenges of life inside early factories and how key court decisions shaped their ability to organize, protest, and push for better treatment in the growing industrial economy.
