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Challenges to the Gilded Age Economy

Challenges to the Gilded Age Economy. Primary Source Papers.

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Challenges to the Gilded Age Economy

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  1. Challenges to the Gilded Age Economy

  2. Primary Source Papers Choose at least two primary sources to analyze from the readings assigned for your topic. After reading them carefully, write a 2-3 page paper that explains the significance of the sources and how they relate to the secondary readings for that week. Your papers should make an argument about each of the primary sources based on the following questions: • Who wrote this source? • Why? • What is the perspective of the author? Can you see bias in the source? • What does the source tell us about when it was written? • How does the source connect to the secondary readings in the chapter?

  3. Key Terms • Workingmen’s Party/Anti Chinese Movement • Homestead Strike • Pullman Strike • Farmers Alliance/Populist Party

  4. Anti Chinese Movement

  5. Chinese Massacre, Los Angeles, 1870s

  6. Pullman Car

  7. Pullman Strike, 1894

  8. Primary Sources: The Omaha Platform • Read your source and discuss • Who wrote this source? • Why? • What is the perspective of the author? Can you see bias in the source? • What does the source tell us about when it was written? • How does the piece relate to larger themes in lecture and Zinn?

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