Monday, December 14, 2009

Guilded Age/2nd Industrial Revolution, Essay ?'s, Ch. 20 ID's

WOTD from Monday: Bessemer Process

Ch. 20 ID's, click HERE

Possible Guilded Age Essays:

2000 How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900?

1999 How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions?

1998 Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900.

Government actions Labor unions
Immigration Technological changes

1989 Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois offered different strategies for dealing with the problems of poverty and discrimination faced by Black Americans at the end of the nineteenth and beginning of the twentieth centuries. Identify and assess the relative effectiveness of each of their policies.

1986 Andrew Carnegie has been viewed by some historians as the "prime representative of the industrial age" and by others as "an industrial leader atypical of the period." Assess the validity of this statement.

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