JP History

Wednesday Night HW

What factors led to the increase in immigration during the late 19th and early 20th century? How were new immigrants viewed by old immigrants and "native" (Anglo) Americans? Why? What social and economic struggles did these newer immigrants face?

What factors caused the growth of cities in the late 19th century? What were the consequences of urbanization?

What is Social Darwinism? What does the popularity of Social Darwinism indicate about the way Americans of the late 19th century viewed wealth and poverty?

Thursday Night's Homework

What impact did industrialization have on the laborer? In what ways is industrial labor different from artisanal(look it up) labor?

What factors led to the rise of industrial unions in the United States? What internal and external obstacles did these unions face? How did industrial capitalists and the federal government respond to unions and union activity?

What were the structural and immediate causes of the Great Railroad strike of 1877? How did the public and governmental response to the strike reflect the attitudes of the era?

Appropriate IDs for each night as listed below:

artisan, industrial laborer, Henry Ford, assembly line, mass production, scientific management, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, child labor, feminization of labor, Gilded Age, Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, Herbert Spencer, William Graham Sumner, Carnegieís "Gospel of Wealth", National Labor Union, Knights of Labor, Terence Powderly, American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers, skilled vs. unskilled workers, "iron law of wages," scab, injunction, In re Debs, lockout, strike, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Haymarket Square strike (riot), Homestead Steel strike, Coxeyís Army, Pullman strike, American Railway Union, Eugene V. Debs, Great Railroad Strike of 1877, Rutherford Hayes, Compromise of 1877, new immigrants, old immigrants, nativism, immigrant associations, political machine, political "boss," Tammany Hall, William ("Boss") Tweed, tenement, Jacob Riis, dumbell tenement, Ford Motor Company School, Americanization, Chinese Exclusion Act, eugenics, urbanization, Louis Sullivan, skyscraper, tenement, walking city, suburb