Unit 2 Essay: Industrial America
Post date: Jan 12, 2012 6:48:47 PM
Unit Essay: Industrial America
In order to complete this project you must write an essay on the following topic:
Industrial America
By 1900 America had soared ahead of Great Britain and Germany to become the world's number one industrial power, as the transcontinental railroad, mechanized farming, and massive immigration at the end of the 19th century had super-heated its economy. America also played a decisive role in the allied victory in WWI, and by 1919 was recognized as one of the most powerful nations on earth...a long way from the colonial days and our early history. By the early twentieth century, America was industrial, politically and economically stable, and rapidly becoming the most powerful nation on earth. Using the knowledge of this era that you have gained from your lessons, write an essay of 600 words or more explaining how the Industrial Revolution of the late 19th century had transformed America politically, economically, and socially.
Helpful links for this essay:
Urbanization in the late 19th Century
Poster calling workers to assemble in Haymarket Square, Chicago, May 4, 1886
