Industrialization After the Civil War Thesis Outline & Paper

Change this to your PAPER TITLE (Click on View – Header and footer - to change Assignment 1.1 Outline: Industrialization After the Civil War Name Strayer University If you want me to revise your outline in advance – email, call or text me. (832) 794 -2228 1 outline section = 1 full paragraph ( at least ). (It could be more if you have more than one focus or example) Instructions: . Delete my headings and all the instructions I have typed. Each heading that I list below can be multiple paragraphs (and probably will be to meet page requirements). Make sure to start a new paragraph when your topic changes. Cite your sources within you r outline and paper - To indicate direct quotations with both quotation marks around what you copied and a citation. For APA help, see Announcements and Instructor Insights – Week 2 and 3. Change this to your running head 2 (Click on view header and footer) Introduction Paragraph An intro paragraph is like movie previews: a short, general idea of your paper. An introduction has two things: 1. Your topic + 2. Your thesis statement (your opinion) Examples: 1. Industrialization in Northern cities after the Civil War made the United States a rich superpower, and brought three kinds of positive (negative) changes…(list the changes) 2. Northern cities industrialized, profiting a few “robber barons” at the expense of many urban, industrial workers. #2. Discuss three major aspec ts of Industrialization (social, political and economic) Like the paper, three outline sections equals at least three (3) paragraphs in the paper. Each aspect should equal one section in the outline or one paragraph in the paper. (It could be longer if y ou want to discuss more than one example). 1 #3. Discuss/detail the five (5) different, specific groups : This section should contain five outline section or paper paragraphs, one for each group. Examples (just a few examples of the many you could ch oose) : 1. foreign immigrants who came without English or industrial skills 2. female women who worked in factories (35$ -40% of industrial labor) 3. child industrial labor (see handout in Week 2 with photos by Lewis Hine) 4. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory (videos in Instructor Insights, Week 2) 1 IMPORANT HISTORCAL INFORMATION. Remember, this paper is on industrialization which occurred only in Northern ci ties. There was no significant, major industry in the South. Change this to your running head 3 (Click on view header and footer) 5. industrial owners (Robber Barons) and their wealth (egs. Rockefeller, Carnegie) a. Crédit Mobilier b. Carnegie and U.S. Steel c. Robber Barons d. Rockefeller’s monopoly (horizontal immigration) over oil, Standard Oil 6. middle -class Pro gressive reformers like Jane Addams and Upton Sinclair; 7. “nativists” who opposed foreign immigrants (Chinese Exclusion Act) 8. former slaves who left the South for Northern industrial jobs a. the Great Migration (largest domestic migration in U.S. history) b. creation of Harlem c. from sharecropping to industrial labor for former slaves 9. urban corrupt politicians like Plunkitt in Tammany Hall. 10. unions a. Pullman Strike; American Railway Union and Eugene Debs #4. Discuss/detail the five ways industrializati on affected the life of the average working American that you listed above: The outline section should have at least five outline sections, or at least five paragraphs in paper. Each outline section equals a minimum of one full paragraph and could be more if you have more than one focus or example to discuss in your paper.. #5 Conclusion paragraph: Summarize the main ideas of your paper. Remember to restate your thesis in a slightly different way. Do not introduce any new info in the co nclusion. References • Delete my notes and write references in APA format • You must include at least three references other than the textbook (you can use the text, but it will not count as one of those three). 1. Your references must meet standards for college research. Change this to your running head 4 (Click on view header and footer) 2. Wikipedia and other generic -type websites (like ask.com, about.com, infoplease, you tube,) are not acceptable. 3. You must use scholarly sources only. Academic journals from the library search engines are best (like Jstor etc.). 4. A long list of both acceptable and unacceptable sources are provided in Week 3, Instructor Insight. Unacceptable references will not earn points. 5. Use the collection of databases accessible in the Learning Resources C enter Web page. 6. Do not use generic websites, 7. You can also include primary sources, which are very valuable to a research paper. (a source that was written during this time - like a diary entry or newspaper article from the time period.) 8. You can also use http://scholar.google.com/ - which will bring up scholarly references. If it asks you to pay - do not do that. You can write down the author and name of article and probably find it in the Strayer library resources. Remember references should be a separate page at the end of your paper. Make sure to cite your references throughout the paper any time you use info from the source that is not common knowledge (you can group it at the end of a paragraph if all the info in that paragraph came from t he same source). Make sure to put any direct quotes in quotation marks and cite immediately at the end of that sentence. Change this to your running head 5 (Click on view header and footer) Remember that direct quotes should be no more than 10% of your paper. The rest should be explained in your own words. – DELETE THIS In -text citations are required in the outline and paper.