Jacob Riis Assignment

Jacob Riis Keynote Assignment

Your task is to create a keynote presentation by following the requirements below.

Refer to this link for basic information about Jacob Riis to get you started. Other credible websites may also be used.  

-       All information must be in YOUR OWN WORDS

Slide 1:

-       Summary of Jacob Riis’ childhood/background and Jacob Riis’ occupations?

Slide 2:

-       Explain the purpose of Riis’ work How the Other Half Lives (be sure to include the location of where the photos were taken). In what year was it it published?

Slides 3-7

-       Find 5 pictures that were a part of How the Other Half Lives

Slide 8:

-       Explain the impact of Riis’ work- what reforms or changes took place?

Slide 9:

-       Compare Riis’ pictures to a picture of William Vanderbilt’s Marble House.  On your slide, put a side-by-side picture set-up of a picture of the Marble House and one of your Jacob Riis photographs.

Slide 10:

-       Provide background information about the Marble House. Location, year built, reason for being built, size of house, and how William Vanderbilt made his fortune.

-    Refer to this link.

Slide 11:

-       How does the information on the previous slide relate to the distribution of wealth in the late 1800s?

Total value: 20 points
Due: Fri, Dec 19

Unit 5 Quiz - Post Civil War America

Ch. 13 and 14

Ch. 13 Changes on the Western Frontier
- Transcontinental RR- effects on industry
- Homestead Act
- Stereotypes of the West- why did they develop?
- Push factors that forced settlers to the West
- Pull factors that attracted settlers to the West
- Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
- The last frontier- when was the frontier "discovered"- how does manifest destiny fit with this idea?
- How did land ownership differ between Americans and Native Americans?
- Define assimilation and explain two attempts to assimilate Native Americans. Be specific.

Ch. 14 A New Industrial Age
- Identify Edwin Drake
- Impact of the Bessemer process
- New towns from the railroad
- Identify George Pullman; explain his factory town
- Identify problems with the railroads
- Credit Mobilier scandal
- The Grange response to the rr's
- Munn v Illinois  and the Interstate Commerce Act
- The role of JP Morgan's investment company
- Andrew Carnegie's steel business
- vertical consolidation
- Gospel of Wealth
- Philanthropy 
- Social Darwinism
- John Rockefeller's oil business
- horizontal consolidation
- Arguments for "robber barons" or "captains of industry"
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Why did labor unions emerge in the late 1800s?
- Samuel Gompers and the AFL
- Eugene Debs; socialism
- Great Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Affair
- Homestead Strike
- Pullman Strike
- Employer response to unions? Growth of unions in the early 20th century

Unit 5- Post Civil War: The Gilded Age

Click on this link and make a list of the wealthiest Americans who were born between the years of 1830 and 1850.  Next to each name, cite the industry in which the individual's fortunes were made.

Unit 5- Post Civil War America- Industry

Ch. 14, section 1: A Expansion of Industry (1877-1900)

Read page 436-441.  You will read in detail about the period following the Civil War, which was characterized by the significant growth of technology and inventions. According to our text, between 1790 and 1860, the government issued only 36,000 patents.  A patent is a license that gives an inventor the exclusive right to make, use, or sell an invention for a set period of time.  In contrast, between 1860 and 1890, the government issued 500,000 patents. Inventions such as the typewriter, telephone, and phonograph influenced changes in the economy, business practices, and the daily lives of Americans.  Thus, America experienced the “Gilded Age,” as termed by Mark Twain.  Gilded means “covered with a thin layer of gold,” and the term implied that the thin layer covered the poverty and corruption in the country.  However, the Gilded Age was a golden period for industrialists, and many Americans became rich as a result of booming industries.

Your task is to research one invention from the post-Civil War era (1860-1890).  Each student in the class will have a different invention as chosen at random.  Answer the following questions from your research and create a keynote/powerpoint presentation. 

-       Use bullet points and PARAPHRASE

-       Include pictures

-       8-10 total slides

Refer to your textbook and credible sources from the internet to find the information. DO NOT plagiarize, as this will result in the grade of a zero.

1.     What is the invention? Identify who invented the product, the time frame (year) of the invention, and the progression of the idea/finished product. (at least 5  bullet points)-  5 points

2.     Explain and analyze the IMPACT of the invention on the American economy as well as on the daily lives of Americans. Be as specific as specific as possible in your answer. (at least 8 bullet points)- 7 points

3.     Compare the invention to a modern day product, or how it has transformed to a product at the present time (at least 3 bullet points) 3 points.
4. Last slide: list the website URL used. At least 3 sources needed. (3 points)

Neatness, organization= 2 points

Work ethic and completion on time= 3 points

Total point value= 23 points

Due: Friday, December 5^th at the beginning of class.