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Toy Fire Engine

Toy Fire Engine

Grade Range: K-12
Resource Type(s): Artifacts, Primary Sources
Date Posted: 8/11/2009

Cast-iron toys are essentially American. Small foundries and factories were mass-producing them towards the close of the 19th century. These toys were sold in novelty stores, department stores, or mail order catalogs. One can follow along with shifts in technology by recognizing the changes in the different models of Sears toys...


National Standards

United States History Standards (Grades 5-12)

Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)

1: How the rise of corporations, heavy industry, and mechanized farming transformed the American people
 
2: Massive immigration after 1870 and how new social patterns, conflicts, and ideas of national unity developed amid growing cultural diversity
 
3: The rise of the American labor movement and how political issues reflected social and economic changes
 
4: Federal Indian policy and United States foreign policy after the Civil War
 

Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930)

1: How Progressives and others addressed problems of industrial capitalism, urbanization, and political corruption
 
2: The changing role of the United States in world affairs through World War I
 
3: How the United States changed from the end of World War I to the eve of the Great Depression
 

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