PART 1

1. Describe how vertical organization could revolutionize your business. The intent for this exercise is for you to create a fictional but modern operation and fully describe how vertical integration becomes a major part of your business plan. You may reference but not describe Swift or Standard Oil. The intent is to use the process described in Ch 17; not to repeat or report on it.

2. Select and review one of the following Western films or TV series - Deadwood, 3:10 to Yuma, Open Range, Once Upon a Time in the West, The Magnificent Seven, Shane, Stagecoach, The Big Valley or The Virginian; what makes it History, what makes it Hype and what makes it Hollywood?

3. Write an article for an anti- labor newspaper describing a railroad strike.

4. Select and Review any Documentary film that deals with subject matter, a figure or a concept from our course dates. You may only use the ‘documentary option' twice during the cycle.

PART 2

1. How and why did America's expanding consumer culture change a woman's life and her role in society?

2. Write a news paper article reporting on the Chicago Exposition (The White City)

3. Some historians claim that America became a far more secular society in the late 19th Century and cite Darwin, Social Darwinism and changes in a woman's role as proof. You buyin' or sellin'?

4. Select and Review any Documentary film that deals with subject matter, a figure or a concept from our course dates. You may only use the ‘documentary option' twice during the cycle.

PART 3
1. If the League of Nations was such a great deal; why didn't the United States ratify the Treaty of Versailles and join? Are you buyin' or sellin' the idea that it was the Republicans that torpedoed Wilson's 14 points?

2. What if: What happens during World War 1 if the United States does remain neutral, does not support the Allies, or enter into the fighting?

3. Write a news paper article describing the flu epidemic of 1918 - 1919 in 'your home town'.