Saturday, September 26, 2015

Democratizing Twentieth Century America Homework - Due Monday, Sept 25

read, take notes: http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/1029.html

Read Zinn 338 - 343, take notes, and answer the following questions:

1 - How did women's participation in the workforce change during the early 20th century? How does Mother Jones' description of women's work in breweries illustrate this change?

2 - Discuss Debs' critique of trade unions. Is his critique more aligned with the AFL or IWW? Explain.

3 - Discuss the relationship between industrialization, immigration, and socialism.

4 - Identify: Big Bill Heywood

5 - Discuss the growth of the socialist movement during the early 20th century. How did the movement help facilitate women's entrance into the public sphere?

6 - Discuss the relationship between the socialist and suffrage movements.

**Your answers should include evidence from the text. Note the page number of the text.

Notes Rubric:

4 - clearly shows connections between at least 2 causes of the Women's Suffrage Movement: industrialization, immigration, increases in women's education, WWI
- clearly demonstrates understanding of all the article's central ideas
- provides evidence/quotes to support your claims/arguments; evidence includes numeric data, relevant people and events
- notes are neat and organized; contain headings that show general ideas; contain bullets, numbers, letters or other symbols to distinguish supporting ideas and evidence



3 - shows connections between 2 causes of the Women's Suffrage Movement: industrialization, immigration, increases in women's education, WWI
- demonstrates understanding of most of the article's central ideas
- provides evidence/quotes to support your claims/arguments; evidence includes numeric data, relevant people and events
- notes are neat and organized; contain headings that show general ideas; contain bullets, numbers, letters or other symbols to distinguish supporting ideas and evidence



2 - shows connections between one or two causes of the Women's Suffrage Movement: industrialization, immigration, increases in women's education, WWI
- demonstrates understanding of two or less of the article's central ideas
- little evidence/quotes to support your claims/arguments; little or no numeric data; little mention of major events or people
- notes are sloppy and unorganized; no headings to distinguish general ideas; doesn't contain bullets, numbers, letters or other symbols to distinguish supporting ideas and evidence

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