Industrialization, Imperialism, and America’s Entry Into WWI

Industrialization, Imperialism, and America’s Entry Into WWI

REQUIRED RESOURCES

In your American History course, you will utilize scholarly sources to address questions in the weekly assignments. Please be advised that History.com, Wiki, Wikipedia, or websites such as cliffnotes.com, studymode.com, coursehero.com, and the like are not deemed scholarly sources. Therefore, use your course text and incorporate an additional scholarly source from the Chamberlain Library in your response.

Below is a list of resources you must choose from:

• Textbook: Chapters 17 (section 17.4), 18 (section 18.3), 19 (sections 19.1, 19.2), and 21 (sections 21.2, 21.4)
• Lesson
• Minimum of 1 scholarly source from the Chamberlain Library resources below:
  • Sources for the Week 5 Discussion are available by accessing this link.Links to an external site.
  • The “Popular Data Bases” within the Library Guide for scholarly sources and videos via Search Popular History DatabasesLinks to an external site. or the History Library GuideLinks to an external site..

INITIAL POST INSTRUCTIONS

In preparation for the initial post, consider two (2) of the minority groups during 1880–1914:

• Women’s rights activists
• African Americans
• Immigrants from southern and eastern Europe
• Child workers
• Great Plain Indians

Then, in one (1) to two (2) paragraphs, address one (1) of the following:

• Explain the socio-economic status and challenges of your minority groups at the turn of the century. Evaluate how the Industrial Revolution affected your chosen minority groups.
• Analyze how the Progressives brought reform to your selected minority groups. Do you find that the Progressives successfully made government responsive and improved the conditions of your chosen minority group?