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Class preparation is no longer going to be graded, but is still necessary for your success. You will still have Monday reading quizzes to assess your level of comprehension for the week. This puts a lot of responsibility on you, but since you know the course expectations, it also lets you personalize your learning more than last semester when everything was new. Suggestions for preparation: Terms?the entire semester of terms is on the course website, so you may still do them! I would suggest flash cards.
Cornell Notes or outline Summarize each sub-heading in one sentence. If you can’t do this effectively, you haven’t mastered comprehension of the sub-heading. Use the Papilla practice mood less Any way that you read and interact with the information to form long-term memory is k. New Weekly Assignment?Due Wednesdays Part 1 (40%)?Big Picture Understandings*: For each of the big picture understandings you will create a bullet point list of people, events, documents/ legislation, etc. That support that understanding and provide a brief explanation. . 1 The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and arbitration, sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the U. S. Economy and environment, and renewed debates over U. S. National identity. 1 . Large-scale production?accompanied by massive technological change, expanding international communication networks, and pro-growth government policies?fueled the development of a “Gilded Age” marked by an emphasis on consumption, marketing and business consolidation.
A. Following the Civil War, government subsidies for transportation and communication systems opened new markets in North America, while technological innovations and redesigned financial and management structures such as monopolies sought to maximize the exploitation of natural resources and a growing labor force. B. Business leaders consolidated corporations into trusts and holding companies and defended their resulting status and privilege through theories such as Social Darwinism 2.
As leaders of big business and their allies in government aimed to create unified industrialized nation, they were challenged in different ways by demographic issues, regional differences and labor movements. A. The industrial workforce expanded through migration across national borders and internal migration, leading to a more diverse workforce, lower wages, and an increase in child labor. B. Labor and management battled for control over wages and working condition, with workers organizing local and national unions and/or directly confronting corporate power. C.
Despite the industrialization of some segments of the southern economy, a hang promoted by southern leaders who called for a “New South” agrarian sharecropping, and tenant farming systems continued to dominate the region. 7. 1: Governmental, political, and social organizations struggled to address the effects of large-scale industrialization, economic uncertainty and related social changes such as arbitration and mass migration. A. Large corporations came to dominate the U. S. Economy as it increasingly focused on the production of consumer goods, driven by new technologies and manufacturing techno issues.