If you want
to read dictionary definitions, you can find them beneath this link.
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.
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 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.
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.” |
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 |
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
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. |
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. |
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 |
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
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.
Be
cautious. Use the terms provided below this link.
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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.