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Comparing Urban and Rural Life in the Early 1900s

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Compare and Contrast

Explore the following photographs of two different types of communities from roughly the same time. Examine and analyze the two photographs.

  • What do you notice first?
  • What do you see?
  • List the people, objects, and activities you see in each photograph.
  • Which is the urban image? How can you tell?
  • Which is the rural image? How can you tell?

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Create a T-Chart and label one column “Urban” and the other column “Rural.” Record details that you observe in each image to create your own definition of the terms urban and rural.

Based on your analysis of the photographs:

  • What are the characteristics of urban communities?
  • What are the characteristics of rural communities?
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