Strayer University Economic Approaches in the Age of Industrialization Essay

In Assignment 2, we ask you to choose one of two
topic choices listed below on the subject of economic change and
innovation in the period of the late 1800s and early 1900s, then use the
Writing Guide provided in Blackboard to write a paper on the subject.
One topic is on the individual level of pioneering entrepreneurs of the
period, who developed distinctive strategies for the production and
marketing of very different parts types of products. The other topic is
on the macro level, exploring successful and unsuccessful government
attempts to shape and regulate the changing industrial economy of the
period.

As you prepare and brainstorm your paper, first read and review what
our Schultz textbook covers on the subject. Then, consider the other
sources listed with each topic below. It is important that you review
these sources carefully because you must use a minimum of three sources
(from the list below) to write your paper.

Be sure to review the other help (documents or video) provided by
your instructor. For information on the SWS format, see the “Strayer
Writing Standards” tab on the course menu.

TOPIC CHOICE ONE: Innovative Entrepreneurs – Walker and Ford

Here you will focus on the business approaches of Madame C. J.
Walker and Henry Ford. Both developed innovative and successful
approaches in a time of rapid economic change. You will compare them in
the way they started their respective businesses and the key innovative
features that made each successful. One might find virtues, problems,
and successes associated with both. You might see elements of each in
strategies of later leaders and related issues even today.

Sources: Schultz, p. 396-7 (only Ford is discussed in our textbook). For Madam C. J. Walker (1867-1919), see http://www.madamcjwalker.com/bios/madam-c-j-walker/; and https://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/100-amazing-facts/madam-walker-the-first-black-american-woman-to-be-a-self-made-millionaire/. For Henry Ford, see https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/henry-ford.

TOPIC CHOICE TWO: Government Economic Policies – Hits and Misses

Here you will choose two historical examples from the following list: Prohibition; Hawley-Smoot
Tariff; Sherman Antitrust Act; Pure Food and Drug Act; Federal Trade
Commission; Civilian Conservation Corps; Agricultural Adjustment Act;
the Wagner Act, and the Social Security Act. These are examples of
government economic intervention or economic policy in the long period
from 1870 to 1940. These might be thought of as burdensome government
interference or as needed government regulation, depending on the
example and one’s thinking on those things. For your paper, you will
explore and describe each of your two examples, its historical context,
and the reasons it arose. One might find virtues, problems and successes
associated with both. You might see elements of each in examples in our
current economy today.

Sources: Schultz, p. 362-4, 367, 401-2, 417, 425-9, 432. Besides the
textbook, use any two of these sources that you think relevant to your
paper: http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/impact_factory.htm

http://college.cengage.com/history/wadsworth_9781133309888/unprotected/ps/attack_meatpackers.htm and https://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/mod/1884hdlloyd.asp.

Your assignment must follow these formatting requirements:

• Use the Strayer Writing Standards (SWS)
  . The format is different than other formats like APA. Please take a moment to review the SWS documentation for details.
• Be typed, double spaced between lines, using Times New Roman font,
  Calibri, Arial, or Courier (size 10, 11, or 12), with one-inch margins
  on all sides; citations and sources must follow SWS format. You must
  have a Sources list at the end; each source listed must also be cited in
  the body of the paper with an in-text citation.
• Include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the
  student’s name, the professor’s name, the course title, and the date.
  The cover page and the Sources page are not included in the required
  assignment page length.
• The body of the paper should be five paragraphs and a total of
  500-to-800 words in length. The 500 minimum is firm; you really have not
  adequately developed the paper if less than that. The 800 maximum is a
  loose guideline. The body of the paper is to be double-spaced.
  Typically, if you follow these instructions, the body of your paper will
  be 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 pages in length; add a page for your title page and
  another for your sources list and that then gets to 4-1/2-to 5-1/2. But
  the length requirement is evaluated by word count.

The paper must be submitted (uploaded and attached) in the course shell provided online.

The specific course learning outcomes associated with this assignment are:

• Discuss events after 1865 in terms of social and economic
  conditions that caused corresponding changes in the attitudes of the
  people and policies of the government.

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