- Essay AND Key Terms. This is the whole exam. Consider all parts of the question. In answering, you should make use of MOST of the key terms in black, and you are also free to use key terms that are not listed. You should draw on lectures, readings, and student presentations.
Essay Prompt:
Describe and explain the role of commodities in American society from the colonial period to the present in three parts. Your essay should defend the following thesis: “Commodities have played a critical role in American society from colonial times to the present.”
- 1) In the colonial period and early American history, consider the role of commodities like tea, sugar, tobacco, cotton, and slave labor, all part of the Triangle Trade, in the development of society
- 2) In the period of industrialization after the Civil War, consider the importance of “free” or wage labor, westward expansion, vertical integration, imperialism the assembly line, and Fordism.
- 3) In present-day society, or contemporary history, consider the importance of products from poor or “Third World” countries such as coffee, shoes and athletic apparel, and fruit, etc, and key terms such as Green Revolution.

Order Management

15%
get 15% discount on your first order
code:first15
Premium Service
- 100% Custom papers
- Any delivery date
- 100% Confidentiality
- 24/7 Customer support
- The finest writers & editors
- No hidden charges
- No resale promise
Format and Features
- Approx. 275 words / page
- All paper formats (APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago/Turabian)
- Font: 12 point Arial/Times New Roman
- Double and single spacing
- FREE bibliography page
- FREE title page
0% Plagiarism
We take all due measures in order to avoid plagiarisms in papers. We have strict fines policy towards those writers who use plagiarisms and members of QAD make sure that papers are original.