GROUP ASSIGNMENT: QUICKENED PACE OF TRANSPORTATION
Directions: Explore the assigned resources on your topic and try to imagine life before and after the key moments in history. List at least five (5) adjectives to describe how life must have been within the context of your topic and answer the following questions. Consider your topic with the context of how an individual would respond to these social, cultural, technological, and historical changes. Be prepared to share your information with the class.
Answer the following questions:
Directions: Explore the assigned resources on your topic and try to imagine life before and after the key moments in history. List at least five (5) adjectives to describe how life must have been within the context of your topic and answer the following questions. Consider your topic with the context of how an individual would respond to these social, cultural, technological, and historical changes. Be prepared to share your information with the class.
- Explore the “The Wilbur and Orville Wright Timeline, 1901-1910,” from the EDSITEment-reviewed Library of Congress American Memory Project. Pay attention to the collection’s webpage “The Belief That Flight is Possible to Man.”
- View one or more of the following early motion videos from the EDSITEment-reviewedAmerican Memory website:
- 104th Street curve, New York, elevated railway, 1899
- Interior, New York Subway, 1905
- New Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge, no. 2, 1899
- Market Street before parade, filmed from automobile, 1903
- A trip down Market Street before the fire, filmed from San Francisco cable car, 1905
See also: - Brooklyn Bridge Overview (from EDSITEment-reviewed America’s Story)
- Brooklyn Bridge overview from EDSITEment-reviewed PBS “Building Big” series.
Answer the following questions:
- Imagine first riding on an elevated railroad through the city or in a city subway? What would this ride feel like if you never had experienced it before?
- Compare the pedestrians, horses/carriages you see to the new forms of transportation. What differences do you notice in these early films?
- What would life be like before the advancements in transportation in the late 1800s/early 1900s? What effects did such technological breakthroughs have on individuals in their local and larger worlds?