pages 433-438

1. What developments take place in the steel industry? What are some of Thomas Edison innovations.

2. How does the government help the railroads? What role did the railroads play in the industrial development of the United States between 1865 and 1900? How were the railroads pioneers of administrative practices and management techniques for big business?

3. Where do the railroads get to money? Who was J. P. Morgan and what did he do for a living?
Andrew Carnegie? John D. Rockefeller? What did these men think about competition? Why?

4. How did industrial growth affect the environment?

pages 439-460

5. What happens to United States economy between 1873-1879 and 1893-1897?

6. What explains the increase in the number of immigrants, including Mexican, entering the United States in the late nineteenth century?

7. What were the characteristics of a working-class neighborhood, including the African-American neighborhoods of the North? How did these people cope? How does public transportation help determine where the middle class lives?

8. What is life like for middle class men and women?

9. Describe the importance of Horatio Alger, in the development of the success myth? What was the background of the typical big businessman in the United States during this time?

10. Describe the composition of the work force, the nature of work, and working conditions in the late 19th century. What per cent of wealth did richest 10 per cent of the population control? Which categories of industrial workers benefited the most and least from industrialization? Why?

11. How did working-class families cope? Why was child labor common? What role did women play, both inside and outside the family unit?

12. Why is their a need for labor unions? Describe the significance of the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor. Why did they generally fail to accomplish their objectives?

13. Describe the significance of the American Federation of Labor. Why was it successful? Why was Samuel Gompers important?
14. Describe and explain the strike activity and industrial violence as it affected silver miners and workers at Homestead and Pullman. What is the significance of Eugene V. Debs in the labor movement?