Xaria Kelse
TEACHING WITH DOCUMENTS I EDTECK.COM/DB
Part A:
Directions: Analyze the documents and answer the question or questions that
follow each document in the space provided. Your answers will help you write the
essay
Document 1: Statistics on Industrial Growth
The Industrial Revolution of the late 1800's transformed humanity's age-old struggle with material
scarcity by using capital, technology, resources, and management to expand the production of
goods and services dramatically.
High
% of US
Telephone
Employed
Infant
school
GNP
children
Population
Usage
mortality rate
graduates
(number of
Year
(per
under 15
(deaths under
(% of 17-
telephones for
capita)
years of age
1 year of age
year-olds
Rural
Urban
every 1000
(in millions)
per 1000)
who have a
people)
diploma)
1870
$531
0.7
74%
26%
170
2%
0
1880
$744
1.1
72%
28%
161
2.5%
1
1890
$836
1.5
65%
35%
163
3.5%
4
1900
$1011
1.75
60%
40%
141
6.5%
18
1910
$1299
1.63
54%
46%
117
9%
82
1a. According the table above, name one aspect of American life that improved
between
more 1870 and children 1910. were employed and raised
the GBP.
1b. According the table above, name one aspect of American life that worsened
between 1870 and 1910,
The more kids that worked, death
roate went up
The Progress and Poverty in Industrial America - Page 2
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