Module 3 Industrialization Essay Outline (2 pages) Essay Question: Industrialization raised living standards and made many business
owners wealthy. However, many Americans were still desperately poor. In 1899.
women earned an average of $267 a year, nearly half of men's average pay of
$498. In contrast, Andrew Carnegie made $23 million, with no income tax, in 1900.
Write an argument against the growing wealth and influence of big business. Focus
on unfair business practices, exploitative practices towards workers, government
corruption, and loose laws and regulations.
Directions: Please follow directions given in class. The purpose of this activity is to
outline and plan your essay. You will create your introduction paragraph, your
thesis, topic sentences for each body paragraph, select 3 sources to support your
claim (2 pieces of textual and or observational evidence), and concluding topic
sentence.
Introduction: Answer the essential question, "Did rapid industrialization benefit
economic and social systems in the United States?" in one paragraph (5 to 6
sentences)
Thesis statement (last sentence of your introduction): Big business had a
negative impact on Society due to
1)
2)
and
3)
Paragraph 1:
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Topic Sentence:
• Primary Source:
Paragraph 2:
Topic Sentence:
Primary Source:

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

the founding fathers did not think women were asmportant as mern were and men could do more and better things then women

the church governed the society after the empire fell.   constantine took charge of rome and ended the confusion which had over religion and made christianity as the only religion and that started ruling the roman empire. he also divided the empire into two and fortified the eastern part.   he ruled the eastern part.