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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.

Choose Your Company Town Adventure

Leclaire

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Glen Carbon

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