This 7-slide illustrative PowerPoint teaches students what life was like in the North in America during the 1800s. It describes the often difficult life of factory workers, immigrants, and free African Americans in the North. At the end, students pretend to be factory workers and write a petition and create strike posters.

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I have been teaching grades 7 and 8 Language Arts and Social Studies at De Anza Academy of Technology & the Arts in Ventura, California since 2001. I have also briefly taught high school ESL (grades 9-12), and I spent one month teaching English in Moscow, Russia.
