Saturday, March 12, 2016

Credit Recovery - Due - Saturday, March 19

EQ: How did industrialization politically, culturally, and economically transform the United States?

Read: The Progressive Movement 
Read Zinn 328 - 338


a)    Discuss Samuel Gompers’ position on the race question in the South? Is this position consistent with the overall goals of organized labor? Explain
b)    Discuss the role race played in the labor movement.
c)     Discuss Zinn’s characterization of Gompers. Does he believe Gompers is a good labor leader? 
d)    Compare and contrast the AFL and the IWW. Make a Venn diagram. 
e)    Identify: Eugene Debbs
f)     Identify: Mother Mary Jones
g)    Define: direct action
h)    Define: anarcho-syndicalism
i)      In what ways did the IWW try to transform the political and economic order?
j)      What were “free speech fights?” Provide an example
k)     Discuss the social and economic issues faced by workers in Lawrence, Massachusetts. 
l)      Identify: Ettor and Giovanitti


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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Zinn pgs 347 - 357  

Support each of your answers with direct evidence from the text. 

1 - Describe and discuss the African American experience during the Progressive Period. What is Zinn's argument regarding Progressivism and blacks? 

2 - Discuss the actions blacks took to resist against white supremacy.

3 - List the pieces of progressive legislation (including constitutional amendments) that were passed. Explain what each did.

4 - Theodore Roosevelt is characterized by many historians as a champion of progressive reform. In what ways does Zinn challenge this characterization?

5 - Discuss the roles played by organizations such as the National Civic Federation and the Federal Trade Commission. In what ways were these organizations a response to the growing demand for socialism?

6 - Discuss the Colorado coal strike and the Ludlow Massacre.

7 - What is Zinn's overall argument about the Progressive Era? (At least two paragraphs, with evidence)

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