Post by emilykbrumley on Jan 29, 2016 2:17:10 GMT
Prompt: It was innovations in communications and transportation, more than innovations in business and industry that changed the daily life of the working American. Assess the validity of this statement for the period 1875-1900
The prompt is asking for an evaluation of whether new communications and transportation affected the lives of working Americans more or less than changes in industry and business, and an explanation of these effects. Effects should be more direct, changes that would affect their daily lives rather than long-term
Key Terms:
-Emergence of Newspaper chains- Pulitzer/Hearst
-"Ladies' Home Journal"- 1899
-Social Realism
-Increase in Railroads
-Chisholm Trail- mid-1870's
-Electric Trolley Line (Richmond, VA)- 1888
-Subway (Boston)- 1897
-Growing urban population (throughout time period)
-Immigration, Nativism
-Increase in Fire/Disease
-Labor Unions- Molly Maguires (1870's), Knights of Labor (peak 1886), American Federation of Labor (1881)
-Strikes- Great Railroad Strike (1877), Homestead, Pullman
-Poor living conditions- tenements, "How the Other Half Lives" (could be either paragraph)
-Growth of Middle Class
-Leisure
-Consumerism
-"Self Made Man" + Social Darwinism
-Rise of Corporate Powers + Taylorism
Thesis: Although new forms of communications and transportation were an important factor for the changing lifestyle of working Americans from 1875 to 1900, business and industry had a much more profound impact as it created new jobs and different working standards.
Body 1: Impact of new communication/transportation
-Talk about how it these innovations impacted Americans, but ultimately was not critical to everyday lives
For example:
-journalism/newspaper chains- news became more prominent=more connected + supposedly educated
-Pulitzer/Hearst
-"How the Other Half Lives"
-effect seen in rise in social realism
--- however, Americans still fairly ignorant as seen in lack of solutions to these problems (eg Riis wanting to simply burn down tenements), rise in sensationalized journalism
Body 2: Impact of new business/industry
-Discuss what changes in business/industry meant for Americans in their everyday lives
For example:
-growing industry=growing population
-Immigration, rise in unskilled workers
=rise in nativism, "us vs them" mentality (Am Protective Association 1894)
-Poor living conditions
=tenements, fire, disease
=Social Darwinism for higher class
-other ideas: rise of big business (effect=less job stability, hope to become a self made man, monopolies), growing middle class (consumerism, women as consumers=more power, leisure)
The prompt is asking for an evaluation of whether new communications and transportation affected the lives of working Americans more or less than changes in industry and business, and an explanation of these effects. Effects should be more direct, changes that would affect their daily lives rather than long-term
Key Terms:
-Emergence of Newspaper chains- Pulitzer/Hearst
-"Ladies' Home Journal"- 1899
-Social Realism
-Increase in Railroads
-Chisholm Trail- mid-1870's
-Electric Trolley Line (Richmond, VA)- 1888
-Subway (Boston)- 1897
-Growing urban population (throughout time period)
-Immigration, Nativism
-Increase in Fire/Disease
-Labor Unions- Molly Maguires (1870's), Knights of Labor (peak 1886), American Federation of Labor (1881)
-Strikes- Great Railroad Strike (1877), Homestead, Pullman
-Poor living conditions- tenements, "How the Other Half Lives" (could be either paragraph)
-Growth of Middle Class
-Leisure
-Consumerism
-"Self Made Man" + Social Darwinism
-Rise of Corporate Powers + Taylorism
Thesis: Although new forms of communications and transportation were an important factor for the changing lifestyle of working Americans from 1875 to 1900, business and industry had a much more profound impact as it created new jobs and different working standards.
Body 1: Impact of new communication/transportation
-Talk about how it these innovations impacted Americans, but ultimately was not critical to everyday lives
For example:
-journalism/newspaper chains- news became more prominent=more connected + supposedly educated
-Pulitzer/Hearst
-"How the Other Half Lives"
-effect seen in rise in social realism
--- however, Americans still fairly ignorant as seen in lack of solutions to these problems (eg Riis wanting to simply burn down tenements), rise in sensationalized journalism
Body 2: Impact of new business/industry
-Discuss what changes in business/industry meant for Americans in their everyday lives
For example:
-growing industry=growing population
-Immigration, rise in unskilled workers
=rise in nativism, "us vs them" mentality (Am Protective Association 1894)
-Poor living conditions
=tenements, fire, disease
=Social Darwinism for higher class
-other ideas: rise of big business (effect=less job stability, hope to become a self made man, monopolies), growing middle class (consumerism, women as consumers=more power, leisure)