The following questions should be answered by Wednesday January 23, 2013, 12:00a.m. Students, essay questions should be answered in your own words by summarizing, paraphrasing, and/or analyzing content information. You should use the textbook or internet as a resource but not to copy and paste or write in someone else's words. Content information should be accurate and based on informational readings and text.Students are to select one (1) question to answer in two detailed paragraphs and state a thesis sentence based on your argument to be explained (Thesis statement should be the 1st or 2nd sentence). Grammatical errors should be reviewed and corrected before submitting your essay questions. The essay is worth 80 points total.
Extension Assignment- Students should comment on at least two of their classmates’ essays by Friday, January 25, 2013, 12:00a.m. Your comments should be at least 2-3 sentences in length. he comment should be a critical evaluation of the essay and explain whether you agree with the argument or disagree. This assignment will allow students to become peer supporters in this AP US History class and help critic the writings of their classmates. This assignment is worth 20 points (10 points per comment).Your overall grade will come from Mrs. Ladd.
Students, remember select one question from the following questions listed below:
1. How did the characteristics and experiences of the new immigrants of the 1880-1914 period compare to those of the old immigrants who came before them?
2. To what extent did changes in popular culture, such as the growth of the popular press and increased leisure time and sports activities, reflect the changes in American society from 1865 to 1900.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
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Urban Politics
Farming played a big role dealing with technology inventions. Different type of machines was invented for farmer to grow their crop and to keep the farm in good condition. Even thought farming was decreasing, some continue to crop until in debt.
The cities crew tremendous due to skyscrapper, business, industral, and people. Department stores attracted urban middle-class shoppers and provided urban working-class jobs, many for women.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDeleteTechnology
Class Divisions
Technology in 1865 and the 1900 was major in cities like Nebraska, Utah and Wyoming also Nevada. But their technology were the railroads so they could transport goods. Plus the farming for men in 1888 was to use houses to pull the tractor. Then that made farmers able to accumulate their goods to be able to ship then all over. So that's when the railroads came in to ship the goods off in 1870 and 1890.
The Class Division in 1865 and the 1900 boys was going to grammar school to be in the working upper class. Then the girls wen to private school to just know what they needed to accomplish. Even then women that worked and earned money belonged to their husbands in the upper class. Then people that didn't know or learn how to read and write which were mostly blacks didn't get paid like everybody else were cheated. So it was easily separated from the middle, upper and lower classes.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Class Divisions
Technology made a huge impact on American cities during the time period of 1865-1900.Technology favored farmers and agricultural at this time in the cities. The railroads allowed farmers to sell their crops to a bigger market. The railroads had more power than the individuals who were farmers.They often bullied farmers and destroyed entire farming communities by freezing them out.
The Class Division played a big part also.They treated the poor class like they were animals. They did not show them any respect. The Upper Class were able to work and go to school. Well they're boys was able too.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900 Class Divisions
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During the class division in 1865 and 1900 males and females were divided.The males attended grammar school to be in the working upper class. Just know what they needed to accomplish the females attended private school. Even then women that worked and earned money belonged to their husbands in the upper class. During that time people that didn't know or learn how to read or write. In which were mostly blacks didn't get paid like everybody else. Therefore there were no problems with the separation.
Technology in 1865 and the 1900 was major in cities like Nevada, Wyoming ,Utah and Nebraska. However, their technology were the railroads so they could transport goods. Plus the farming for men in 1888 was to use houses to pull the tractor. Then that made farmers able to accumulate their goods to be able to ship then all over. So that's when the railroads came in to ship the goods off in 1870 and 1890.
Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
The municipal government often failed to meet the needs of the constituents. In many cities across the country, power rested not in the hands of elected officials but with the boss who handpicked the candidates for offices and controlled the vote through the political machine, or organization, that he ran some of the bosses were New York’s Williams Marcy Tweed. Although reformers bitterly attacked the corruption and inefficiency that went along with boss politics. The system did provide valuable services. The political machines ran a large-scale welfare system at a time when even the concept of a social safety net was unheard of.
There was a lot of technological innovations contributed rapid industrialization throughout the 1800s. Railroads were being build for rapid transportation. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field’s transatlantic cable improved overseas communication. By the 1900, the telegraph lines linked all continents in a global network of cables. The telephone was invented in 1876, by Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Edison, developed the world’s first modern research laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ. His lab produced over 1,000 patent inventions (phonograph, the light bulb, mimeograph machine, and the motion picture camera.
Question 1
ReplyDeleteThe newer immagrants had it fairly easier than the immagrants before them. They had more oppurtunities to earn wages and get better living conditions. They also had it bad as well because of the fact that the were really letting everyone in the whole family work. It was also bad because if yhu were a free slave at that time with no job you would be imprisoned and forced to work.
How dis the characteristics and experiences of the new immigrants of the 1880-1914 period compare to those of the old immigrants who came before them.
ReplyDeleteThe charcteristics and experiences of the immigrans had alikes and differences. Many of these immigrants saw america as the land of opportunity.
There were immigrants of 2 groups: The last waves of "Old Immigration" from Germany, Britain,Ireland and Scandinavia, and the " New Immigration" Some moved back and fourth across the Atlantic,but most were permanent settlers. The New immigration were much npooere peasants and rural folk from southern and eastern europe, including many italians, Poles and Jews. Some groups, especially the italians and greeks , saw themselves as temporary migrants who planned to return to their home villages with a nest egg of cash earned in long hours of unskilled labor. Others especially the Jews, had been driven out of Eastern Europe and had no intention of returning. The push factors of these immigrants included dislocation, shortages of land, and antisemitism. Pull factors were the economic opportunity of good inexpensive farmlands or job in factories, mills and mines. The first generation typically lived in ethnic enclaves with a common language,food, religion, and connections through the old villiage. The sheer number caused over crowdings in tenants in larger cities in the smaill mill towns,however, management usually built company housing with cheap rents. In conclusion the immigrants from old to new were similar in ways of coming to America to look for jobs and things. They were different in ways of where they came from.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDeleteTechnology
Class Division
Technology in 1865 and the 1900 was major in cities like Nevada, Wyoming ,Utah and Nebraska. However, their technology were the railroads so they could transport goods. Plus the farming for men in 1888 was to use houses to pull the tractor. Then that made farmers able to accumulate their goods to be able to ship then all over. So that's when the railroads came in to ship the goods off in 1870 and 1890.The Class Division in 1865 and the 1900 boys was going to grammar school to be in the working upper class. Then the girls wen to private school to just know what they needed to accomplish. Even then women that worked and earned money belonged to their husbands in the upper class. Then people that didn't know or learn how to read and write which were mostly blacks didn't get paid like everybody else were cheated. So it was easily separated from the middle, upper and lower classes.
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
There were many factors that contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900. Two of these factors are technology and class divisions. Technology has always been somewhat prevalent from the beginning. As American cities began to form, many people began to invent things that could be useful to the construction and maintenance of the American cities as well as the business that operated within them. Some of these inventions were the light bulb, mass producing, the telephone, and the Bessemer Process. The light bulb was made by Thomas Edison and was used to extend the time that it was lit inside and out. It also allowed businesses and industrial plants to operate later and longer, much to the distress of laborers and workers. Mass producing was started or invented by Henry Ford. He came up with the idea of using a conveyer belt to have his workers build cars in an assembly line. This allowed him to build more cars at a faster rate. The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. His invention made it easier to communicate across long distances. His invention came after the telegraph and inspired the Bell-south company an later the AT&T company. The Bessemer Process was created by Henry Bessemer. He used this process to efficiently create steel for buildings like skyscrapers by melting pig iron and burning coal. This also lead to mass production of steel.
Class Division was another factor that contributed to the development of American cities. Class Division involved three classes: the Upper Class, the Middle Class, and the Lower Class. The Upper Class consisted of the Elite, the rich, the educated, successful inventors, and the owners of the businesses and industrial plants/factories. This group almost always maintained itself on the backs of the middle class. Speaking of the middle class, it consists mainly of workers and laborers. They worked in harsh conditions and were paid minimum wage or next to nothing. They were put in a situation where they were stuck in there positions because they didn't have much money to do otherwise. The lower class would have most likely been the extremely poor people, who could not get jobs anywhere because they were most likely incapable of doing hard labor or disabled. This set of classes have not changed much since then. We still have that class system and the middle class is still the largest and second poorest class.
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Delete3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1.Technology
2.Urban Politics
Technology favored large farms. Much of the technology was expensive and/or needed large spaces to work correctly use a huge Because of this, the new technology made large farms more competitive than small farms. That started the process that brought to the situation we have now where most farming is done by large agricultural firms rather than by families.
Between 1865 and 1900, American industry workers experienced both good and hard times. Labor Unions were forming, and these new creations often produced better lives for the workers. However, waves of immigrants were also coming into America, which resulted in the threat of jobs being unstable. Labor Unions and Immigration both had moments effected upon the industry worker, for better or for worse.After the Civil War, which killed much of the working population, people began to appreciate their skills more and more due to the lack of human resources.
ReplyDeleteLabor Unions began forming, demanding better pay, hours, and conditions. Labor Unions did receive some of what they bargained for, but their greatest gain was the augmented participation people began to take in expressing their convictions.The National Labor Union fought for the arbitration of industrial disputes and the eight hour workday. They were able to win the eight hour workday. The Knights of Labor, an esoteric, clandestine, group, campaigned for economic and social reform.
Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
Technology was one of the factors that contributed. Different inventions were starting to be built to help factories and other things. Light bulbs and conveyor belts were Some of the things that were made. Also, railroads help farmers transport there goods across America. Furthermore by the 1900, the telegraph lines linked all continents in a global network of cables.
The Class Divisions is another factor. Basically, there was three classes: Upper class, Middle class and Lower class. Lower class was treated like animals. Middle class worked and wasn't paid equally. Upper class really didn't have to work they basically spoon feed. And if you couldn't read or write you we're cheated out of your working money (mostly black people).
3.Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
Some of the prominent Labor Unions were the National Labor Union, organized in 1866, the Colored National Labor Union, the Knights of Labor, and the American Federation of Labor. Although these unions targeted different portions of American society (some included blacks, some didn't, some were elitist, some were lower class...), they all had major goals in mind; all fought for reform in the American industrial workforce.
A number of improvements in urban transportation made the growth of cities possible. Cities gave way to streetcar cities because people had little choice but to live in walking distances. By the 1890s, both horse-drawn cars and cable cars were being replaced by electric trolleys, elevated railroads and subways, which could transport people to urban residence. These improvements in urban transportation made it possible for more people to immigrate into the cities making it even bigger. Large factories also had an effect because large factories soon made up a urban city along with skyscrapers.
Technology allowed the Great Plains to be opened to agriculture. Perhaps the most important advances were John Deere's steel plow and barbed wire . The railroads were also very important as they connected farmers to markets.
ReplyDeleteAt the same time, technology favored bigger farms. Much of the technology was either expensive and/or needed large spaces to work effectively . Because of this, the new technology made large farms more competitive than small farms. That started the process that brought us to the situation we have now where most farming is done by large agricultural firms rather than by families.
The dominant fact concerning the American urban political parties between 1875 and 1900 was that the parties were evenly divided. It was also an era in which political corruption seemed to be the norm; practices that today would be viewed as scandalous were accepted as a matter of routine. Businessmen wantonly bribed public officials at the local, state and national level, and political machines turned elections into exercises in fraud and manipulation. The narrow division between Republican and Democratic voters made both parties hesitant to take strong stands on any issue for fear of alienating blocs of voters. The result was that little got done.
Analyze how two of the following factors contributed to the development of American cities between 1865 and 1900
ReplyDelete1. Technology
2. Urban Politics
3. Class Divisions
The municipal government often failed to meet the needs of the constituents. In many cities across the country, power rested not in the hands of elected officials but with the boss who handpicked the candidates for offices and controlled the vote through the political machine, or organization, that he ran some of the bosses were New York’s Williams Marcy Tweed. Although reformers bitterly attacked the corruption and inefficiency that went along with boss politics. The system did provide valuable services. The political machines ran a large-scale welfare system at a time when even the concept of a social safety net was unheard of.
There was a lot of technological innovations contributed rapid industrialization throughout the 1800s. Railroads were being build for rapid transportation. In 1866, Cyrus W. Field’s transatlantic cable improved overseas communication. By the 1900, the telegraph lines linked all continents in a global network of cables. The telephone was invented in 1876, by Alexander Graham Bell. Thomas Edison, developed the world’s first modern research laboratory in Menlo Park, NJ. His lab produced over 1,000 patent inventions.
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ReplyDeleteThe impact of these changes in lifestyle was reflected in both the serious and popular literature of the time, which emphasized realism and targeted the growing middle class.
The impact of mass production. Mass production changed the way Americans dressed, shopped, and ate. After the Civil War, handmade clothing quickly gave way to ready-to-wear clothes sold through retail outlets. But people did not have to live in large cities or even visit the stores themselves to buy what they needed. In 1872, Aaron Montgomery Ward opened the first mail-order retail business and issued a one-page catalog featuring nearly 150 items; by 1884 the catalog contained more than 200 pages and listed over 10,000 items. Montgomery Ward and its more successful competitor Sears, Roebuck and Company brought the benefits of mass production to farms and small towns by selling everything from clothes to agricultural implements through their catalogs.
How did the characteristics and experiences of the new immigrants of the 1880-1914 period compare to those of the old immigrants who came before them?
ReplyDeleteAn immigrant’s greatest challenge was finding work. Sometimes organizations in his or her homeland recruited workers for jobs in the United States. The organization supplied Amer ican employers with unskilled workers who worked unloading cargo or digging ditches.People found it easy to blame immigrants for increasing crime, unemployment, and other problems. The nativist movement, for example, had opposed immigration since the 1830s. Nativism gained strength in the late 1800s. Calls for restrictions on immigration mounted.
Some of America’s fastest-growing indus- tries hired immigrant workers. In the steel mills of Pittsburgh, for example, most of the common laborers in the early 1900s were immi- grant men. They might work 12 hours a day, seven days a week. Many immigrants, including women and children, worked in sweatshops in the garment industry. These were dark, crowded workshops where workers made clothing. The work was repetitious and hazardous, the pay low, and the hours long.
Question #3: Urban politics
ReplyDeleteThe urban development attracted many who migrated from the small towns & farms, but also caused social conflicts. Some included New Immigration, crowed slums, religious changes, transformation and conflict over culture and values. The urban cities provided opportunities and chances. Immigrans can to america for these opportunities. Mostly jobs. Religion had also faced cultural and intellectual changes due to the fact that the immigrants had their own religion before they came to america.
Technology
The Electric Elevator allowed construction of skyscrapers. Examples are New York. Many people migrated to New York but soon became over crowed in some areas. Instead of making the buildings wider they made them taller. Alexander Grham Bell and his invention of the telephone. The telephone changed the way America communicated.
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