More than 50 injured were in hospitals and at their homes. Using Mass Moments in Third Grade ClassroomsĪ 50-foot wave of molasses-2,300,000 gallons of it-released in some manner yet unexplained, from a giant tank, swept over Commercial street and its waterfront from Charter street to the southerly end of North End park yesterday afternoon.Įnsnaring in its sticky flood more than 100 men, women, and children crushing buildings, teams, automobiles, and street cars-everything in its path-the black, reeking mass slapped against the side of the buildings footing Copp's Hill and then swished back toward the harbor.Įleven persons-a woman, a girl, and nine men-were the known dead at midnight.Lesson C: A Young Colony Faces Challenges.Activity 4: How the Puritans Celebrated Christmas.Activity 2: High Cost of Following Other Religious Beliefs.Activity 1: The Puritans’ Promise to God.Lesson B: Religious Intolerance in Seventeenth-Century Massachusetts.Activity 1: Creating Big Maps Showing Early Towns.Lesson A: The First English Settlements in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.E/MS Unit II: Building a New Society: Life in Colonial Massachusetts.William Apess Presents a Different Point of View Lesson D: William Apess and the “Mashpee Revolt”.Activity 2: The Fate of Indian “Praying Towns”.Activity 1: Accounts of King Philip’s War.Activity 2: Establishing "Praying Towns" and Educating Indian Youth.Activity 1: Examining the Puritans’ Goals in Relation to Native Peoples.Activity 5: Creative Extension - County Maps.Activity 4: Examining Historic Maps for Information.Activity 2: Reading Early Settlers’ Accounts.Activity 1: Mapping Native American Tribes and English Settlements.Lesson A: Native American Tribes and English Colonists in Early Massachusetts.E/MS Unit I: Two Cultures Collide: Early Relations Between English Settlers and Indigenous People in Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies.Activity 1: Early Years in the Lowell Mills.HS Unit III: Voices of Labor - Working People Organize, 1925-1930.Activity 2: The Work of a Nobel Peace Prizewinner.Activity 3: Fifty Years’ Worth of Gains.Activity 2: The Difference One Individual Can Make.Activity 1: Nineteenth-Century Women Activists.Activity 2: Advocates for Female Education.Activity 1: The 1840s-How Things Stood for Women.Lesson A: Advocates for Higher Education.HS Unit II: Women's Struggle for Equal Rights, 1825 - 1930.Activity 3: Anthony Burns-Slave-Catchers Come to Boston for the Last Time.Activity 2: Comparing and Contrasting Two Points of View in Newspaper Reports.Activity 1: Analyzing the Fugitive Slave Act.Lesson D: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: A Case Study of Resistance.Activity 2: New Opportunities in Education.Activity 1: Panel Discussion/Debate: Integration v. Lesson C: The Fight for Equal Education, 1800–1855: Two Case Studies of School Desegregation.Activity 1: Interviewing Anti-Slavery Activists.Lesson B: Men and Women, Black and White, Who Made a Difference.Activity 2: Exploring the Mass Moments Website for Answers.Activity 1: Starting With What Students Know.Lesson A: The Struggle for Racial Justice, 1780-1863.HS Unit I: Free But Far From Equal: The African American Experience in Massachusetts, 1780–1863.“That horses were blown about like chips, houses torn asunder, and the heavy section of the Elevated railroad structure smashed like an eggshell are other considerations linked with the conclusions of Mr. Wedger finds “that in a great tank of molasses so heated there could be generated a mixture of air and gas that would be as explosive as the same amount of air and gasoline,” the paper reads. Wedger, a chemist for the state police at the time. The story begins with blaming the disaster on an “internal explosion,” according to research by W.L. The paper also printed lists of those found dead, seriously injured, and injured at the time of publication. “Ensnaring in its sticky flood more than 100 men, women and children crushing buildings, teams, automobiles and street cars - everything in its path - the black reeking mass slapped against the side of buildings footing Copp’s Hill and then swished back toward the Harbor,” reads a portion of this article.
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