Questions:
● In the reading “A Reporter’s Account of Lynn Women’s Mass Meeting During the Great Strike, 1860,” a depiction of working class women’s activism is provided. What does this text tell us about the role that women played in this strike?
● How might a middle class woman involved in the reform movement respond to such an account?
● What were the demands and what was the result?
● What does this strike tell you about industrial America in the mid 19th century?
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Answer at least two of the questions
Please indicate which questions you are answering, and separate each into its own paragraph. At least 6 sentences!
Shackles and Dollars (Parry on Baptist):
Questions:
● Historians and economists are, as the Chronicle of Higher Education described, upset at each other about interpretations of slavery.
In your own words: what's at stake in these debates?
● What is the position of the historians and the economists?
● Which side do you agree with most and why?
● What does this debate tell you about the legacy of slavery?