HOMEWORK SHEET ONE

Homework Sheet One

Chapter 18-The Machine Age (1877-1920)

# 1 (#89 for those of you keeping track!)
Read and outline pages 505-511
1. What were the technological and business innovations of the second half of the 19th century?
DUE TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH

#2 – Read and outline pages 511-517
1. How did industrialization change work for employees?
2. How did the workers respond to the new work environment?
DUE WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10TH

# 3 – Read and outline pages 517-522
1. How did workers fight back against their increasingly poor working conditions?
DUE THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11th

# 4 – Read and outline pages 522-528
1. How did large companies increase their wealth?
DUE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH

#5 – Read and outline pages 528-534
1. What is the theory of Social Darwinism
2. How did individuals and the government try to stop trusts?
DUE DATE TO COME

Chapter 19-The Vitality & Turmoil of Urban Life (1877-1920)

#6 – Read and outline pages 537-547 (up until Influence on Religion)
1. Why did people immigrate in large numbers to the U.S. in the late 19th century?
2. How did the type of immigrant change?
DUE DATE TO COME

#7 – Read and outline pages 547-552 (up until Family Life)
1. What were the problems immigrants encountered?
2. How was reform attempted?
DUE DATE TO COME

#8 – Read and outline pages 565-570
1. What was the politics of Bossism?
DUE DATE TO COME