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Additional Class Topics
For Further Interest: Additional Class Topics
Chapter 14:
Forging the National Economy, 1790 - 1860
- Discuss the roots of Irish immigration
to America. Consider the changing historical image of Irish-Americans
and their culture from the nineteenth century to the present, and the relationship
between popular stereotypes (Irish police, St. Patricks Day) and the
actual experience of Irish-Americans.
- Discuss one or more of the early inventions
and their relation to economic growth, e.g., the cotton gin, the sewing machine,
the mechanical reaper, the telegraph. Consider how much technological progress
depends on the proper social and economic conditions.
- Compare the early-nineteenth-century American
economy with those of developing Third World countries today. Discuss the
absolutely crucial role that developing a basic infrastructureparticularly
transportation and communication facilitiesplay in the early stages
of industrial development.
- Focus on the lives of early factory workers,
perhaps using the female textile workers of Lowell, Massachusetts, as a case
study.
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