JOHN GAST’S AMERICAN PROGRESS (1872)
ANALYZE JOHN GAST’S AMERICAN PROGRESS (1872) AND TELL ME WHAT THEMES FROM LECTURE (THIS WEEK’S AND PREVIOUS LECTURES) ARE CAPTURED IN THIS PAINTING. HOW DOES THIS PAINTING RELATE TO MANIFEST DESTINY AND FRONTIER THESIS? WHO IS EXCLUDED IN THIS IMAGE? HOW DOES THIS IMAGE GESTURE TO THE RISE OF THE GILDED AGE?
Assignment 2 (3 pick 2, each question at least 300)
•Based on lecture and the Historians on Housewives podcast episode, how did Milton Hershey and the Hershey company exemplify the Gilded Age through company practices, the idea of the self-made man, and the American dream? Use at least two examples from the assigned podcast.
•Discuss the relationship of wealth inequality and Robber Barons/entrepreneurs at the end of the 19thcentury. How did the railroad help to shape these conditions? Use at least two assigned sources and include at least two examples.
•How is Frontier Thesis similar to and different from Manifest Destiny? Based on lecture and the assigned sources how can we see that Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis is problematic? Use at least two assigned sources and provide at least two examples.
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