Directions: Incorporate the material from the Industrialization, Immigration, and Early Progressive Era page. Please make sure to properly cite any material you use. While I recommend in-text parenthetical citation, you may use any citation method you prefer (Author’s Last Name or Title of Chapter/Article, page number if possible).
Minimum length: 500 words
Industrialization and Immigration: Read three primary sources; read one secondary source; watch the first 24 minutes of Race: the Power of an Illusion; watch Banished
Progressive Era: Read two primary sources; read one secondary source; watch Triangle Fire (optional)
Based on the course material, develop an interpretation about immigration, race/citizenship, and/or industrial capitalism in the late 1800s and early 1900s. In your analysis, be sure to include a thesis statement (a one-or-two sentence summary of your interpretation) and use the class material as your supporting evidence. (The main idea is to critically use the class material to tell the story of American society in the late 1800s and early 1900s. For example, you could consider how Americans defined and understood citizenship during this era and how ideas about race/citizenship contributed to the debates over immigration and discriminatory policies against nonwhites or analyze both how beneficiaries of industrialization justified economic inequality and how workers, farmers, and reformers sought to change the economic/political system.) In a concluding paragraph, discuss how the class material influenced your understanding of American history. What is the significance of this topic and why is it important that we understand it today? What connections, if any, can you make between this material and the present? (What parallels do you see between the late 19th century and the early 21st century in relation to debates on immigration and/or economic inequality? How would you compare justifications for economic inequality in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to justifications for economic inequality today? How do we define Americanism and citizenship today? Why do you think nativism (anti-immigrant sentiment and policy) and/or debates on economic inequality have been recurrent features in American history?)
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