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National Park Service is pleased to inform you of the oldest surviving textile mills in America! Discover the importance of technology in shaping the textile industry, how it affected architecture, city planning, and transportation. This textile mill represents the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Info on Mills: **[]** ** Activities on Mills: ** **[]** ** Transportation: ** ** Paving the Way! ** Ways of travel continue to improve, like new cars that run on less gas or cool new train systems that go from town to town. Still, there are problems that continue to slow travel down. Check out this cool project to see how you can make a difference in your community and help travelers everywhere!
 * The Boott Cotton Mills of **** Lowell ****, **** Massachusetts **
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**Women’s Suffrage:** **You Want Women to Vote, Lizzie Stanton?** by Jean Fritz (Penguin Group, 1999) ISBN: 9780698117648 Paperback Who says women shouldn't speak in public? And why can't they vote? These are questions Elizabeth Cady Stanton grew up asking herself. Her father believed that girls didn't count as much as boys, and her own husband once got so embarrassed when she spoke at a convention that he left town. Luckily Lizzie wasn't one to let society stop her from fighting for equality for everyone. And though she didn't live long enough to see women get to vote, our entire country benefited from her fight for women's rights. (Penguin Group)

**Women Winning the Right to Vote:** In this activity, children will examine two pairs of banners from the woman suffrage movement and then write a banner to match one banner that is missing its pair. By examining the arguments for and against woman suffrage, children will build a better understanding of the woman suffrage movement and examine an example of nonviolent protest. After viewing this example, children may feel encouraged to examine their feelings and view opposing perspectives on issues in their own lives. [|**http://americanhistory.si.edu/ourstory/pdf/suffrage/suffrage_answer.pdf**]

An intearctive model of a steamboat. []
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