Tasks:
- Purpose of class today is to practice DBQ process with support of peers.
- Introduction to DBQ: Industrialization impacted American farms. Many rural people faced same problems as urban, industrial workers. In some ways, farmers feel their way of life slipping away, as the modern, industrial economy displaces the agrarian way of life. Change arrives, and the farmers will respond by creating the "greatest movement of agrarian rebellion the country had ever seen" (Zinn, 282).
- Farmers were at the mercy of large corporations
- Farmers were trapped in a web of middlemen
- Farmers confronted high tariffs that failed to protect export crops
- Farmers were at the mercy of big banks
- Distribute DBQ
- Read question: What are you being asked to do? (Subject, Task, Time period)
- Brainstorm outside information - This particular DBQ provides the categories for you to focus on (technology, government policy, economic conditions)
- Read documents (10 minutes)
- Outline argument.
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