4. Reform and Industrialization 2
1865-1920
2010: Ind-and-refsyl2
1930s and 1960s
| 11/22 | Hand back test; introduce new unitELECTRICITY, STEEL PRODUCTION, TRANSPORTATION, TAYLORISM, MODERN CORPORATION, HORATIO ALGER, GOSPEL OF WEALTH, SURVIVAL OF FITTEST | C 17 Industrial supremacy: sources of industrial growth,456-467 [452-62] |
| 11/23 | HOMESTEAD STRIKE, AFL, KNIGHTS OF LABOR, RR STRIKE, MOLLY MAGUIRES, CHILD LABOR, WORKING CONDITIONS, MONOPOLY | C 17 Capitalism and Its critics, The Ordeal of the Worker 467-81 [463-76] |
| 11/28 | PATRONAGE, SHERMAN ANTI-TRUST ACT, MCKINLEY TARIFF, ICC, POPULISTS, SUBTREASURIES, SENATOR ELECTION, INCOME TAX, BIMETALISM | C19 From Stalemate to Crisis: Politics of Equilibrium, Agrarian Revolt, 514-26, [510-22] |
| 11/29 | PANIC OF 1893, CROSS OF GOLD, SILVER QUESTION, | C 19 Crisis of the 1890s, 526-33;[522-30]Read Kezirian How Did Southern Populists Respond to Industrial America?” 107-110 and blog it |
| 11/30 | PROGRESSIVISM, MUCKRAKERS, SOCIAL GOSPEL, SETTLEMENT HOUSES, PROFESSIONALISM, NEW WOMAN, CLUB WOMEN, WOMAN SUFFRAGE, CITY MANAGER, REFERENDUM, TAMMANY HALL, TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FIRE, TEMPERANCE, IWW | C 21 The Rise of Progressivism: The Progressive Impulse, Women and Reform, 557-566 [554-64]QUIZ ON PRESIDENTS 1-10 – NAME, PARTY, YEARS, MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF PRESIDENCY |
| 12/1 | PARENT CONFERENCES no class? | C 21 The Assault on Parties, Sources of Progressive Reform, Crusades for Order and Reform, 566-579 [564-78]READ TARR on Horses |
| 12/2 | TRUST BUSTER, SQUARE DEAL, CONSERVATION, 1907 PANIC, NEW NATIONALISM, NEW FREEDOM, FEDERAL RESERVE ACT, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION, INCOME TAX | C 22 The Battle for National Reform: TR and the Progressive Presidency, The Troubled Succession, Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom, 580-93 [580-3] |
| 12/5 | Review for test | |
| 12/12 | TEST – prepare 4 essays – write one; 4 IDs | |
| 12/12 | 5 factors leading to Depression, banking crisis, Dust Bowl, how Depression affects demographic groups, Depression values, popular culture (one example-radio, movies, literature), Popular Front, Reconstruction Finance Corporation, Bonus Army, Keynesian economics | C25 The Great Depression: The Coming of the Depression, The American People in Hard Times, 648-660; [650-62]Read Kezirian, “The Great Depression: Could It Have Been Avoided?” 135-138QUIZ ON PRESIDENTS 11-20 – NAME, PARTY, YEARS, MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF PRESIDENCY |
| 12/13presidents 21-30 | Communist Party, Southern Tenant Farmers Union, Voluntary Cooperation, RFC, Bonus Army, bank collapse | C 25 The Depression and American Culture, The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover, 660-674 [662-76]; and “Did the New Deal Go Too Far or Not Far Enough?” 139-142.Read Brinkley on #Occupy movement and Bonus Army |
| 12/14 | bank holiday, Agricultural Adjustment Act, TVA, CCC, Townsend Plan, Wagner Act, CIO, Social Security, WPA, court-packing, black cabinet, Frances Perkins, | C 26 The New Deal: Launching the New Deal, The New Deal in Transition, 676-692 [678-94] |
| 12/15 | Social Securityhttp://historicalthinkingmatters.org/socialsecurity/ | C26 New Deal in Disarray, Limits and Legacies of the New Deal, 692-700 [694-703] |
| 12/16presidents 31-44 | economic growth, AFL-CIO, Social Security, Salk vaccine, DDT, | C30 The Affluent Society: “Economic ‘Miracle”” and :the Explosion of Science and Technology,” 778-89; [784-94] |
| 12/17 | consumerism, suburbia, popular culture (one example), The Organization Man, The Other America, ghettos |
C30 People of Plenty, The Other America,Eisenhower Republicanism 789-99, 803-4 [794-804, 808-10] |
| 12/18 | Social Security, New Frontier, Great Society, Medicare, Medicaid, Federal Aid to Education, Immigration Act of 1965 NPR 40th anniversary of Great Society (7 minutes) http://www.npr.org/player/v2/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=1589660&m=1589785 | C31 The Ordeal of Liberalism: Expanding the Liberal State, 812-9QUIZ ON PRESIDENTS 21-30 – NAME, PARTY, YEARS, MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF PRESIDENCY |
| 12/19presidents31-40 | personal liberation, counterculture, Indian Civil Rights Movement, Stonewall, | C32 The Crisis of Authority: The Youth Culture, The Mobilization of Minorities, 842-852 [850-60] |
| 12/20 | Betty Friedan, NOW, RAchel Carson, Earth Day, stagflation, two-tiered economy 2000s | C32 The New Feminism, Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society, 852-859; [860-7]QUIZ ON PRESIDENTS 31-44 – NAME, PARTY, YEARS, MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF PRESIDENCY |
| 12/21 | stagflation, mergers, globalization, computer revolution, internet, DNA, ethics of genetic engineering | C34 The Age of Globalization: The Economic Boom, Science and Technology 920-9, [929-37] A Contested Culture, 936-941 [944-8] |
| 12/23 | TEST |
For Test on 1865-1920
- Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900: Government actions, immigration, labor unions, technological change
- Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.
- Analyze the ways in which state and federal legislation and judicial decisions, including those of the Supreme Court, affected the efforts of any TWO of the following groups to improve their position in society between 1880 and 1920. Women, Farmers, Workers
- Choose two of the following organizations and explain their strategies for advancing the interests of workers. To what extent were these organizations successful in achieving their objectives? Confine your answer to the period from 1875 to 1925. Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, Socialist Party of America, Women’s Trade Union League, Industrial Workers of the World
For test on 1930s and 1960s:
- Identify THREE of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society. Agricultural Adjustment Act; Securities and Exchange Commission; Wagner National Labor Relations Act; Social Security Act
- Historians agree that Social Security is at the heart of New Deal and Medicare at the heart of Great Society reform. To what extent were the New Deal and the Great Society revolutionary?
- Compare and contrast three reforms of FDR and LBJ in terms of their target, their purpose and their goal.
- Discuss, with respect to TWO of the following, the view that the 1960s represented a period of profound cultural change. Education; Gender roles; music;
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