Transcript Feedback on Immigration Questions * US History Periods 3, 4

Desirous
Avarice
Pestilence
1. Read the questions
◦ What is being asked?
◦ Is there more than one question?
2. Read the text
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Look for the answers and make notes.
Don’t know words? Look them up!
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Recycle words from the question.
Integrate paraphrasing or quotes from the text.
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Did you answer ALL parts of every question?
Does your writing make sense?
3. Answer the question
4. Proofread
Check your answers to see if you included all of this
information.
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Role of government = enforce 8hr work day…ensure
that the working class has legal rights. Objective of
Unions = make sure the government takes care of
the working class.
If the government leaves businesses alone, then
things work out for the best for all...government and
unions should stay out legislating workers’ rights.
Stow: Concerned about workers health, thinks that it
is in the interest of employers to contribute to public
programs and healthcare. Livermore: Not
concerned, it will work itself out on its own.
Everyone is responsible for themselves.
(personal choice) but be sure to explain WHY.
If you are missing full marks, check to see if you
included all of this information:
1. Views workers as suffering, disease-ridden. Views
employers as greedy. Make sure you know what
avarice means.
2. Had no money to leave the job. There weren’t
many union jobs. Were worried that they would be
fired if they joined a union. Didn’t understand
what unions were, as they didn’t speak English.
3. Make sure you know what pestilence means (It
symbolizes the plague). Plague/disease of the cigar
are the workers themselves due to their poor
working conditions. This is symbolic, not literal.
If you were the teacher, what comments would
you give about these answers.
2. Thomas Livermore’s Testimony reflects the
views of social Darwinism by Livermore
saying that the person has to work for power,
“A man shall work, and what wages he shall
get to himself”
3. Dr. Stow does not think making the laborers
work long hours in a factory is healthy, while
Mr. Livermore believes they should do what is
necessary to make a living.
1. He views the workers as normal people. His
attitude toward them is that he feels sorry for
them.
2. So many workers were forced to live in
tenement factories maybe because they
were unskilled and immigrants.
3. It means the smell of the cigar.