Major Comparison – the Content

Major Comparison – the Content 1

What You Have to Read for Each Possible Comparison and What the Terms Mean? - New   1

Reminder about the Requirements with Each of These Topics– New   1

Comparison Topic 1 - New   1

For Comparison Topic 1: Reminder about Backgrounds from Unit 1 – Don’t Deceive Yourself 2

For Comparison Topic 1: What You Need to Read from Unit 2  2

For Comparison Topic 1: Choices for Your 2 Primaries  2

Comparison Topic 2 - New   2

For Comparison Topic 2: Reminder of What You Read Previously in Unit 1  2

For Comparison Topic 2: What You Need to Read from Unit 2  3

For Comparison Topic 2: Choices for Your 2 Primaries  3

Essential Background – Still Applicable to the Major Comparison  3

Background about the Terms  3

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table – Don’t Deceive Yourself 3

 

Reminder: 

-       The Content link, including the exact pages to read for each Comparison Topic, is below this link.

-       Because some of you may need all instructions and some may only need instructions that are different from the prior comparison, each heading ends with the word:
- Same if has the same information as in prior Comparison
- New if it is new information or is information specific to this Comparison

 

What You Have to Read for Each Possible Comparison and What the Terms Mean? - New

If you want to read dictionary definitions, you can find them beneath this link.

Reminder about the Requirements with Each of These Topics– New

 

You do 1 of the 2 choices exactly as written. In each these 2 choices for Comparison Topics, make sure you meet the listed requirements above.

 

Comparison Topic 1 - New

  1. Compare these three periods on one or two issues of interest to you:
    1. Consumerism in the 1900s to 1920
    2. Consumerism just before the Great Depression and
    3. Laws that Congress created to protect laborers’ hours and wages in the New Deal.
      Particularly in the Great Depression, what did laborers themselves do to solve the problems they faced?

Tips about Content:

·         Make sure you remember that what happened after 1901 was new for labor. See the Reminder about Backgrounds from Unit 1.

·         The word laborer in this question refers to people who work for wages from an employer—in other words, not farmers or tenant farmers or sharecroppers.

·         Congress also passed laws to protect business and farmers throughout this time, but do not cover those.

 

If you believe there is enough information to cover an equivalent Comparison Topic to the one above about business or farmers, email me your planned pages and primaries. Be sure to get my OK before starting to write and to give me enough time—36 hours—to reply before you start to write. I’ll only say No if I think you don’t have enough information available.

Aid to Help You Copy the Exact Comparison Topic in the File: When you copy the exact Comparison Topic into the file for the Major Comparison, you can copy this version without bullets:

 

Compare these three periods on one or two issues of interest to you: consumerism in the 1900s to 1920, consumerism just before the Great Depression, and the laws that Congress created to protect laborers’ hours and wages in the New Deal. Particularly in the Great Depression, what did laborers themselves do to solve the problems they faced?

 

For Comparison Topic 1: Reminder about Backgrounds from Unit 1 – Don’t Deceive Yourself

For quick reminders to how labor was treated in the Gilded Age, click on these course resources:

·          Labor, strikes, and government action in the Gilded Age

·         The Snapshot: Gilded Age, Progressive Era, the Roaring Twenties –For the 3 time periods, notice pay, hours, and leisure.

For Comparison Topic 1: What You Need to Read from Unit 2

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

Consumerism and labor from about 1900 to 1920

Read about labor conditions and about consumerism in the early period:

·         In Chapter 20 under the heading “A Nation of Consumers.”

·         In Chapter 21 under the heading “Labor Protest in a Changing World.”

 

Read with care how workers’ pay was essential to make consumerism work:

·         See Chapter 21 under the heading “Social and Cultural Change in the Wilson Years.” (Stop at “The Growing Use of Electricity.”)

·          Notice the chart on the “Model T Ford” and the subheading ”Automobiles for a Mass Market.”
Notice the pay of workers as well.

Consumerism and labor from about 1920 through the Crash (Hoover’s term)

Read with care the changes—including to workers—in the late 1920s as a factor in the Great Depression and then the Great Depression itself. See Chapter 24:

·         Under the heading “Causes of the Crash”

·         Under the heading “Brother, Can You Spare a Dime: The Great Depression.”(You will also find this in the index under the word consumerism.)

·         Notice the chart on “Unemployment in the Great Depression.”

Labor in the New Deal

Use the index or the word labor unions and then only those pages in Chapter 25. In the 4th edition, Chapter 25 begins on 648 and ends on 676. A good guide to what are significant events in this time period is to look at the quiz questions about labor or unions.

 

Use this specific entry:

sit-down strikes

 

 

For Comparison Topic 1: Choices for Your 2 Primaries

If applicable to what issues you want to cover, you may use the Constitution as one primary. You also may use the folder labeled:

Other Primary Sources for Comparison Topic 1

Comparison Topic 2 - New

  1. Compare three periods on one or two issues of interest to you: African Americans from about 1887 to 1901, from 1901 to about 1933, and in the New Deal. In these periods, focus on what African Americans themselves did to solve the problems they faced.

Tip: You may cover African Americans in the South from 1890 to 1901 and then use information from North or South in the two later periods.

 

For Comparison Topic 2: Reminder of What You Read Previously in Unit 1

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

African Americans in the South from 1887-1893

Pages 468-469 in Chapter 18. Look for this heading:

“The Spread of Segregation.”

African Americans in the South from 1893-1901

Pages 495-496, 504-505 Look for these headings:

·         “African Americans and Segregation.”

·         Paragraph on 504 beginning “The main combat” through paragraph on 505 ending “brought harmony at the expense of black Americans.

For Comparison Topic 2: What You Need to Read from Unit 2

Time Period

What You Read in the 4th Edition Paperback (For Earlier Editions, See Below.)

About 1901 to 1933

Use the index for the word African Americans and then only those pages in Chapters 20 to 25. In the 4th edition, Chapter 20 begins on 513 and Chapter 25 ends on 676. A good guide to what are significant events in this time period is to look at the quiz questions about African Americans.

African Americans in the New Deal

Use the index for above  plus use this specific entry:

New Deal, African American support for

 

For Comparison Topic 2: Choices for Your 2 Primaries

If applicable to what issues you want to cover, you may use the Constitution as one primary. You also may use the folder labeled:

Other Primary Sources for Comparison Topic 2

Essential Background – Still Applicable to the Major Comparison

Students fail at understanding history because they start writing before they have read enough and even tried to figure things out. The remaining things on this webpage cover where students have frequently misunderstood.

Background about the Terms

Be cautious. Use the terms provided below this link.

Backgrounds You Can Observe in the Table – Don’t Deceive Yourself

If you want this as a printable pdf, click here.

 

Notice these things:

-       Notice the purple shading in the horizontal bar across the table when segregation starts.

-       Make sure you look up the word segregation in the link to definitions. It does not mean any form of nasty treatment. It is a very specific form of nasty treatment.

 

Copyright C. J. Bibus, Ed.D. 2003-2015

 

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