Tasks:
- Welcome back!
- Review industrialization process from prior to break by answering the following questions:
- What factors facilitate economic growth?
- Which factor is most significant to understanding change?
- Which factor is an inferior choice?
- Review impact of Big Business on politics and economy by analyzing political cartoon.
- How did Big Business influence politics?
- How did Big Business influence the economy?
- Segue into the changing working conditions.
- Describe the working conditions of the 1830s and 1880s. Use the following notetaker to organize your thoughts. Use the following readings to described the working conditions: Lowell Mills (ch. 14 in Kennedy) and the Union Stockyards (excerpt from The Jungle).
Reminders:
- Zinn p. 262 - 282 due Friday January 9.
