Describe life in Lowell in the mid-1800s

In the first half of the 1800s, factory work gave girls and young women a taste of city life. Many of these young women came from farms to work in New England's textile mills. They wanted to earn money. They also wanted to find adventure in the cities that were growing up around the factories.

chronological thinking is an indispensable tool to structure a historical narrative and to give meaning to a sequence of events. the final section presents the results of a survey to test the chronological thinking of lower secondary school students carried out by the educational research institute.