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Liberty Middle School
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UNIT ASSESSMENT DIRECTIONS
For this unit’s assessment, you will be researching and planning a trip to a local company town of your choice. You can choose to travel virtually or you can visit the location and document your experience.
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While you are visiting, you will be asked to look for the key themes of company towns, industrialization, immigration and urbanization that we have discussed in class and how the past is still present in our daily lives
Immigration
Housing
Business Names
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Industrialization
Factories
Mining
Railroads
Urbanization
Housing
Street Names
Schools
Businesses
Railroads
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Recreation
Parks
Bands
Sports
Lakes
Pools
Company Town Reminders
often located in underdeveloped areas (farmland) by railroads and/or mining deposits
Two Types of Company Towns
Utopian Village
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churches, libraries, schools, and other forms of recreations; no saloons
Money Maker
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workers are isolated, no transportation, poor housing, no ability to work elsewhere if you leave you lose your housing.