It's been awhile since I last posted... so here is an update from the past couple of weeks:
1) We have been talking about the growth of industry and how railroads helped those industries.
2) We spent a week talking about Big Business and monopolies, tycoons, entrepreneurs, trusts, anti-trusts, etc.
3) We spent half a week on labor unions: looking at the different unions out there, the types (craft and industrial), and how labor affected outcomes in the workplaces, through strikes.
4) We also have been talking about immigration- old v. new; why people came to America to begin with; Angel Island (CA) v. Ellis Island (NY); Asian immigraton v. European immigration; and laws that were put in place to slow down immigration into the US (during the late 1800s and early 1900s). You had a RAFT assignment with these, which won't be graded until late next week, BUT look good from what I've seen. :)
5) This week is SHORT, but we'll be talking about life in the cities and try to fix urban problems. We'll be talking about political corruption in the cities and how political machines were a big factor for that. And we'll end the week with an activity on statistics practice, by looking at statistics from the Gilded Age.
6) A REMINDER THAT DCN 7.3 is DUE on Wednesday. 9.1 is DUE on Monday, November 1.
