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Required Reading
Foner Chapter 16
Zinn Chapter 9-10
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Assignment
Movie/Book Choices due
What factors combined to make the United States a mature industrial society after the Civil War?
How was the West transformed economically and socially in this period?
Was the Gilded Age political system effective in meeting goals?
How did the economic development of the Gilded Age affect American freedom?
How did reformers of the period approach the problems of an industrial society?
The American economy thrived because of federal involvement, not the lack of it. How did the federal government actively promote industrial and agricultural development in this period?
Why were railroads so important to America's second industrial revolution? What events demonstrate their influence on society and politics as well as the economy?
Why did organized efforts of farmers, workers and local reformers largely fail to achieve substantive change in the Gilded Age?
Describe the involvement of American family farmers in the global economy after 1870s and its effects on their independence.
According to the Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, the era's slogan was "Get rich, dishonestly if we can, honestly if we must." Explain how this was true of the politics of the era.
How did American political leaders seek to remake Indians and change the ways they lived?
Explain how social thinkers misapplied Charles Darwin's ideas to justify massive disparities in wealth and power and to deny government a role in equalizing opportunity.
How did social reformers such as Edward Bellamy, Henry George, and advocates of the social gospel conceive of liberty and freedom differently than the proponents of the liberty of contract ideal and laissez faire?
In what ways did the West provide a "safety valve" for the problems of the industrial East? In what ways did it reveal some of same problems"