Lessons: 1870-1900

• Alexander Graham Bell's Patent for the Telephone and Thomas Edison's Patent for the Electric Lamp

• Glidden's Patent Application for Barbed Wire

• The Homestead Act of 1862

• Little House in the Census: Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder

• Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers' Enrollment Case File

• Petition Signed by Thomas A. Edison for Sunday Openings at the World's Columbian Exposition

• Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case

• Photographs of Lewis Hine: Documentation of Child Labor

More Online Primary Source Resources for Era 6 — The Development of the Industrial United States

• Primary Source-based Activities from DocsTeach

• Primary Source Documents from DocsTeach

• Primary Source Documents from the National Archives Catalog