Investigating Wisconsin History | Coming to Wisconsin

'Investigating Wisconsin History' helps students think like historians. Each program poses a 'history mystery' and then follows a variety of historical clues to solve it. As 'history detectives,' students analyze such clues as historical sites, oral histories, artifacts, maps and photographs. In putting together this historical evidence, they will form an image of the past and realize that history often involves multiple perspectives.

Coming to Wisconsin - After seeing many nationalities represented at Holiday Folk Fair International in Milwaukee, Angie explores Wisconsin's diverse ethnic heritage by investigating immigration to Wisconsin. Several main phases of immigration are discussed, with attention given to "push/ pull" factors. Angie discovers that Wisconsin's first phase of immigration in the early 1800s happened in part because territorial leaders were encouraging immigrants to settle here. Early state leaders continued to recruit settlers after statehood. Also, several groups of American Indians were pushed to Wisconsin from eastern states. The second phase (1890s-1920s) was influenced by the Industrial Revolution and poor immigrants seeking work in Wisconsin factories. The final phase of immigration (1940s-1990s) reflects a variety of push/pull factors for many cultural groups, including refugees forced from their homes by war. Angie examines the difficult adjustments many immigrants had to make, while acknowledging the difficulty some residents had in adjusting to the newcomers. She also encourages students to find evidence of ethnic diversity in their own communities.

More at: http://www.ecb.org/history/

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I would start @ 3:55