Discussion Board #1
Students will select the most influential historical process featured in the relevant lesson videos from this historical era (covering the Gilded Age from the rise of Industrialization through the Spanish-American War), prioritizing its explanatory importance and supporting their ranking with evidence. This discussion post will assess SLOs #1, #2, and #3 as well as the Core Objectives of Critical Thinking and Communication.
PDA (Primary Document Analysis) #1
Students will examine a primary document and explain how it facilitates your comprehension of the larger historical events and/or processes associated with this historical era (covering the pre-contact New World through the early colonial period of North America). This essay will assess SLOs #1, #2, and #3 as well as the Core Objectives of Critical Thinking and Communication.
Discussion Board #1
Students will select the most influential historical process featured in the relevant lesson videos from this historical era (covering the Gilded Age from the rise of Industrialization through the Spanish-American War), prioritizing its explanatory importance and supporting their ranking with evidence. This discussion post will assess SLOs #1, #2, and #3 as well as the Core Objectives of Critical Thinking and Communication.
Video
1. Gilded Age
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• After establishing the course themes of American identity, freedom, and equality at the end of Reconstruction, we examine the reasons behind the large-scale industrialization in the late nineteenth century. In addition, we analyze how the culture of the era reflected the emerging dominance of business in America.
2. Lesson 2: The American West
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• An integral part of the changing American landscape in the late 19th century was the transformation of the West. The causes of the changes occurring in the West are explored, and the consequences for people living and moving there, including American Indians, Mexican Americans, and those newly arriving are assess
Lesson 3: Moving to the City
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Millions of immigrants, as well as thousands already in America, moved to the city in the decades following Reconstruction. Using the cities of New York, Chicago, and San Francisco, we examine the living and social conditions of the huddled masses during this era.
Lesson 4: A Dream Deferred
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While millions pursued the American Dream in the late 19th century, African Americans and women of all ethnicities encountered special obstacles in their paths. Why did this happen? How did they respond? What did it mean?
Lesson 5: Labor’s Struggle
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• the process of industrialization changed the nature of work, working conditions, and the composition of America’s workforce. We analyze labor’s struggle to organize, management’s fierce resistance to their efforts, and the status of the American worker by the end of the nineteenth century.
Lesson 6: The Populist Challenge
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• As farmers became more productive, they became more marginalized in American economic and political life. They responded by organizing a significant challenge to the established political powers of the era. We assess the meaning and the legacy of the Populists
Lesson 7: The Question of Empire
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By the end of the nineteenth century, the internal transformations of the United States propelled the nation to look outward. We analyze the causes and consequences of the Spanish American War, the decision for empire, the resulting war in the Philippines, and the use of the “big stick” in latin America