Primary Sources- Time Machine (1902): Children working in the Pennsylvania coal mines
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Read the passage Time Machine (1902): Children working in the Pennsylvania coal mines. Then answer the questions below.
Read the passage Time Machine (1902): Children working in the Pennsylvania coal mines. Then answer the questions below.
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Which statement BEST describes the purpose of this source?
Which statement BEST describes the purpose of this source?
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Based on the source, what can be concluded about the coal industry in the early twentieth-century United States? Select two correct answers.
Based on the source, what can be concluded about the coal industry in the early twentieth-century United States? Select two correct answers.
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Drag each item to the correct box based on whether it is a valuable feature of the source or a limitation of the source.
Drag each item to the correct box based on whether it is a valuable feature of the source or a limitation of the source.
- the source includes direct quotes from people involved in mining
- the author of the source visited the mines and witnessed the situation first-hand
- the author of the source did not stay at the mines long-term to witness the lives of people over time
- the audience of the source is unclear from the source itself
- the source includes information about labor laws in Pennsylvania
- Valuable features of the source
- Limitations of the source