|
 |
|
 |
|
|
| | | | | | | |
|||||
| |
| Home » Topics » NCSS » 7 |
|
||||||||||||||||
| |
NCSS-7
Production, Distribution and Consumption
Resources:
History as Destiny: The Case of New York City
Relevant interactive tools:
Colonial City: Revolutionary Battleground
Relevant transcripts:
Relevant interactive tools:
Urban Crisis: Fire and Water
Relevant texts:
Relevant transcripts:
Relevant interactive tools:
Urban Crisis: Disease, Crime, and Space
Relevant texts:
New Deal Order
Relevant pages:
Relevant transcripts:
The Stable Fifties
Relevant pages:
Relevant transcripts:
The Old South
Relevant pages:
The Origins of Slavery in the New World
Relevant pages:
The Struggle for Freedom
Relevant pages: Resource Type: Primary Source Still from In Our Hands, Part 2: What We Have (1950). The Affluent Society Resource Type: Primary Source Galbraith's classic study of 1950s America discusses the irony of the existence of significant poverty in affluent America. Discovery and Settlement: New Amsterdam Resource Type: Document-Based Question The present-day issues of tolerance and diversity are explored in colonial society. These primary sources provide contemporary perceptions of Native Americans, African Americans, Jews, and European settlers. The American Revolution: Defeat and Victory in New York Resource Type: Document-Based Question New York City was a center of loyalist support and trans-Atlantic trade during the revolutionary era. The documents on the Battle of Brooklyn, the British occupation, and the end of the Revolutionary war demonstrate how these events were turned into victories for New York, establishing the city's path toward national and world prominence. Petition to Have the Five Points Opened Resource Type: Primary Source Merchants owning property along the periphery of Five Points petitioned the municipal government in 1829 to demolish the heart of the slum by widening and extending Anthony and Cross Streets. Urban Society: Central Park and Social Reform Resource Type: Document-Based Question This microhistory of Central Park in New York City provides students with a laboratory for learning how social reformers attempted to clean the city of its slums and promote the well-being of its residents. These tools can be applied to the study of any large city. New Deal Liberalism and Postwar Economic Growth Resource Type: Document-Based Question The primary sources in this DBQ help students explore the legacy of New Deal liberalism as American society is transformed during the 1940s and 50s. Economic, political, and social issues interact to simultaneously and paradoxically enhance and undermine government intervention in American society. Eisenhower and the Politics of the 1950s Resource Type: Document-Based Question This selection of primary sources gives students an opportunity to examine different layers of dissent during the Eisenhower presidency. Although President Eisenhower enjoyed great public support, his administration was challenged by problems at home and abroad. Homogenized Society and Conformity Resource Type: Document-Based Question This carefully crafted selection of primary sources will allow students to weigh the multiplicity of factors that influenced American culture in the 1950s, such as the Cold War, government policies, legislation, corporations, and television. Students can focus on the extent to which consensus and conformity dominated relations among or within various social groups. The Counterculture Resource Type: Document-Based Question Although the decade of the 1950s deserves its reputation as an age of political, social, and cultural conformity, seeds of social discontent nevertheless permeated American society. This carefully crafted DBQ focuses on the intellectual and artisitic critics of the affluent society, as well as the origins of the women's and civil-rights movements. Levitt On Communism and Home Ownership Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its mass-produced housing. William Levitt is quoted as saying the following. Levittown, New York Resource Type: Primary Source As the first community of its kind, Levittown, New York, located 25 miles east of Manhattan on Long Island, heralded the postwar arrival of suburban America with its hundreds of acres of mass-produced housing. The Affluent Soceiety: Public vs. Private Sectors Resource Type: Primary Source John Kenneth Galbraith, a prominent Harvard economist, outlined in this article the necessary balance that should exist between the private and public sectors of the American economy. The Other America Resource Type: Primary Source With this book, writer and social activist Michael Harrington helped launch the New Left movement of the 1960s and its concerns about American poverty and social injustice. The Feminine Mystique Resource Type: Primary Source Founder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Betty Friedan wrote this influential treatise critiquing the loneliness and dissatisfaction felt by many suburban housewives in postwar America. Capitalism, Slavery, and Free Labor Resource Type: Primary Source Apologists for slavery, like George Fitzhugh, often argued that the investment in slaves positively influenced the way slaveowners treated them. Manumission of Slaves in North Carolina Resource Type: Primary Source In the wake of the Revolution, many Southern states liberalized their provisions for manumission. By 1790, slaveholders could manumit their slaves throughout the South, except in North Carolina. The Environmental Movements Resource Type: Document-Based Question The larger issues of western expansion, industrialization, urbanization, and progressivism are explored in this DBQ on the environmental movements that arose at the end of the nineteenth century. Railroad Ad Resource Type: Primary Source This Northern Pacific Railroad advertisement appeared in a 1900 issue of Harper's Weekly. The advertisement promotes travel to Yellowstone National Park. Scientific Advances and Thinking Resource Type: Document-Based Question By the late-nineteenth century, science and scientific thought influenced American intellectual life and culture. The documents attached to this DBQ allow students to assess how the achievements of science were both admired and feared. Kodak Camera Ad Resource Type: Primary Source This advertisement for Kodak cameras appeared in a 1900 issue of the magazine Youth's Companion. Remington Typewriter Company Ad Resource Type: Primary Source In a 1905 advertisement, the Remington Typewriter Company used two letters by Mark Twain to illustrate how his attitude toward the typewriter had changed over a period of thirty years. The Principles of Scientific Management Resource Type: Primary Source Frederick W. Taylor was a mechanical engineer who wrote extensively about scientific management, a method of managing groups of people based on scientific principles, as part of progressive notions of efficiency. His ideas influenced business management theory in America and around the world. The Principles of Scientific Management is a collection of his essays published in 1911. Mechanized Home Laundry Resource Type: Primary Source This drawing dramatically illustrates the increasing mechanization of domestic life during the second decade of the twentieth century. Social Darwinism: Its Influence and Legacy Resource Type: Document-Based Question Social Darwinism is usually understood as an ideology that justified survival of the fittest, that argued against government intervention or social reform to improve society. The documents in this DBQ, however, point to the complexity of social-Darwinist thought, considering how a progressive version fueled the Progressive Era and how a conservative strand exerted tremendous influence in American political thought. The Political Economist and the Tramp Resource Type: Primary Source In this poem, Phillips Thompson pokes fun at certain notions of Social Darwinism. Sumner on Social Darwinism Resource Type: Primary Source William Graham Sumner was an American social scientist influenced by Herbert Spencer and Charles Darwin. Sumner applied Darwin's evolutionary theory to human society. Carnegie on Wealth Resource Type: Primary Source Andrew Carnegie made millions in the steel industry during the nineteeth century. While he was willing to share his wealth with those less fortunate than himself, he did set certain restrictions, as outlined in his 1889 article "Wealth." Evolution and Labor Movements Resource Type: Primary Source In this 1893 magazine, an unknown writer comments on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution as it applied to the labor movement. Exhibition of American Negroes at World's Fair Resource Type: Primary Source The Exhibition of American Negroes at the 1900 Paris World's Fair tried to show that blacks in America had become part of the American middle class. The Master-Slave Relationship Resource Type: Document-Based Question The recent scholarship on slavery explores the complex relationship between master and slave and re-examines the historical agency of slaves. In reading the slave narratives provided in this DBQ, students can assess how slaves tried to retain their dignity in the worst of circumstances. Slave–Sale Broadside Resource Type: Primary Source A slaveowner advertises his slaves as valuable commodities, identifying each slave. Letter from a Slaveowner Resource Type: Primary Source In this letter, Henry Tayloe, a slaveowner, reveals to his brother the interest of Southern slaveholders in the institution of slavery. Account of a Former Slave Resource Type: Primary Source In his 1846 autobiographical account, Lewis Clarke, a former slave, answers questions about the manner in which he lived before he gained his freedom in 1841. Ran Away Resource Type: Primary Source This broadside promised a reward for the return of a fugitive slave. Shackles Resource Type: Primary Source These iron leg shackles are typical of those used on Southern plantations in the mid-1800s to restrain slaves when they were being moved from one location to another and to punish slaves who attempted escape. Frederick Douglass on Slavery Resource Type: Primary Source Frederick Douglass was an escaped slave who gained fame as an orator and a writer promoting the cause of abolition. He wrote the following testimonial to the demoralizing effects of slavery in his autobiography. Slaves Picking Cotton Resource Type: Primary Source In this illustration, slaves are shown picking cotton while overseers watch from horseback. Compromise Between the North and South Resource Type: Classroom Simulation In this dramatic simulation students will explore the possibility of an eleventh-hour compromise between the North and the South on the eve of the Civil War (1861–65). Students will understand how mounting tensions in the 1850s eventually led to the outbreak of war. Decisions of Slaves to Leave the Plantation: Should I Stay or Should I Go? Resource Type: Classroom Simulation In this simulation students will examine the very complex decision that slaves faced regarding whether to leave the plantations in the early years of the Civil War and whether to join the Union forces. Students will understand how a single decision gravely affected the lives of slaves, their families, the outcome of the war, and even the period of Reconstruction. Middle-Class America and Its Discontents Resource Type: Classroom Simulation This simulation asks students to place themselves in a Greenwich Village coffeehouse on the eve of the 1960s. Replicating a broad spectrum of American society, from conservatives to counterculture critics, students will understand how the fifties represented an era of consensus that paradoxically carried the seeds of protest that would fuel the rebellion of the sixties. Historians Debate: Who Is Responsible for the Cold War? Resource Type: Classroom Simulation This simulation involves a fictitious conference held in the year 2002, in which three groups of Cold War historians—orthodox, revisionist, and post-revisionist—debate the origins of the Cold War. Who is to blame, the United States, the Soviet Union, or both? Abundance Resource Type: Primary Source Poster from the U.S. Housing Authority (1940s). Abundance Resource Type: Primary Source New York City housing project (c. 1950). The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Ad describes the rush by veterans to buy homes in Levittown, N.Y. The Suburbs: Conformity and Isolation Resource Type: Primary Source Customers wait in line to buy houses in Levittown, N.Y. National Politics: Looking to Business Resource Type: Primary Source President-elect Eisenhower, Viscount Bernard L. Montgomery, and Don G. Mitchell, president of Sylvania corporation (1958). The Cotton Kingdom: The Industrial Revolution Resource Type: Primary Source Power loom weaving in a New England textile factory. The leather belts transmitted power from a central waterwheel or a steam engine. Cities Deal with Water Resource Type: Primary Source The Oceanus logo, which the Bank of the Manhattan Company carried over from its origins as a water business. | |
|
||||||||||||
| © Columbia University 2004 | Help | About | Subscribe | Feedback |
| CAHO is being provided to you for your own use. Any copying or distribution of CAHO materials is prohibited. |
