Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Jackson Era Project

Please read the following worksheet to determine your top three choices. We will discuss this on Friday.

Jackson Project

HW due 3/27

Read pages 298-303
Identify the Southern Social Classes and their characteristics.
How do these groups compare to northern ones?

Monday, March 23, 2009

Quiz on Wednesday

On Wednesday, we will have a "checking in" quiz. This will deal with all of the issues we have been discussing relating to Economic Revolution.
Key points:
  1. Major technological developments, and how do they transform the economy, create international markets, and affect the environment?
  2. How do national and state policies impact industrialization? (Ie: national bank, tariff, transportation funding)
  3. How does regionalism/sectionalism tie in?
  4. How does factory life impact gender roles and change the relationships of men, women, and children?
  5. How do urbanization, industrialization, and immigration impact society in the early 19th century cities?
  6. How are industrialization and immigration connected?
Although we have not formally discussed all parts of all of these points, they are excellent questions around which to focus the information in this section.

Urban Life ppt

Urban Life

Thursday, March 19, 2009

homework, due 3/25

Read pages 274-288, answer questions. Also use your examination of the primary sources from class to help answer the sections on labor.
Due on 3/25/09

# What influence did technology have on the growth of American industry?
# What forces contributed to the rise of the factory in the Northeast? How did this promote industrial development?
# What role did American inventors and industrial ingenuity play in the growth of American industry?
# How did the textile mills recruit and use labor? What was the general response to the Lowell method, by worker and by observer?
# What caused the breakdown of the Lowell [or Waltham] system?
# What was the "lot of working women" in Lowell and other factory towns? How did this differ from conditions in Europe?
# What problems did the "Lowell girls" have in adjusting to factory and factory-town life?
# With the growth of industry came the growth of labor, but how did the rise of American labor organizations differ from the usual patterns of union growth? What groups organized first, and why?
# What was the "factory system?" What impact did it have on the American artisan tradition?
# What was the general condition of workers in northeastern factories?
# What attempts were made to better conditions in northeastern factories? What role did unions play in these attempts? What was accomplished?