March 2, 2009
to syllabus
Paper
Topic Instructions and Options
History
350: American Radicalism
Notes: 1. Papers
are due at class time on Wednesday (March 4). Late papers should be brought to
my office. Note the time and date you’re submitting a late paper and slide it
under my door if I’m not there.
2. Make sure your paper is securely stapled
together and that your name is on it.
3. Possible essay questions and instructions
for the final exam will be ready and online by Monday, March 9.
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I. Was the struggle for women's suffrage a mistake?
II. Cady Stanton and today's Women's Movement
Link to study questions on Haymarket and radical labor
I. Labor in Industrializing America
A. Rise of Big Business--Speed, Size, Scope
B. Urbanization The Lower East Side [New York] Tenement Museum
C. Immigration and an Evolving Labor Force Immigration History Research Center
II. Labor Organization and Labor Protest
A. Workers and Capitalists: Escape? Cooperation? Confrontation?
B. Union organizations:
1. Knights of Labor
2.
American Federation of Labor
III. 1877: Revolt on the Railroads Website on the 1877 strikes
Another
strike exhibit
Terence
Powderly, Knights of Labor
Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor
Railroad Power Threatens American Workers, 1877
1877 Strike Scenes from Popular
Magazine