CHAPTER 14 STUDY GUIDE
Mrs. Johnson American Studies II
THE
INDUSTRIAL AGE
ISSUES
TO UNDERSTAND
Answer
the following in your notebooks:
Section
One
1.
Explain how the abundance of natural resources and the new methods for
developing those resources led to the rapid growth of industry.
2.
Explain how new sources of power contributed to changes in how
businesses
operated.
3.
How did the growth of industry in the late 1800s change the way people
worked
and lived?
4.Who
were some of the key inventors during this period?
Section
Two
5.
What role did the railroads play in unifying America in the late 1800s?
6.
What were the positive and negative effects of the railroad on the
nation’s
economy?
7.
How did railroads promote trade and interdependence among different
parts of
the country?
8.
How and why did the town of Pullman develop?
9.
What was the Credit Mobilier
scandal?
10.
How were farmers particularly hurt by the
unfair
practices of railroad companies?
11.
What were the Granger Laws?
12.
Explain Munn v. Illinois.
13.
Why was the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 important?
Section
Three
14.
How did Andrew Carnegie create his steel empire?
15.
What was horizontal consolidation?
16.
What was vertical consolidation?
17.
How were Darwin’s theories of evolution applied to society by
Herbert
Spencer?
18.
What were the Horatio Alger “rags to riches” stories? How
did they
affect workers and capitalists in the late 1800s?
19.
What is a monopoly?
20.
How does a monopoly affect an industry?
21.
What are positive and negative effects of a monopoly?
22.
Identify John D. Rockefeller.
23.
Read point and counterpoint on the tycoons of the late 1800s.
Which
position do you agree with?
24.
How did the industrial revolution affect the South?
25.
Discuss some of the hardships workers endured.
26.
What is a labor union?
27. What
was the National Labor Union?
28.
What did Stephens try to do with the Knights of Labor?
29.
What were the goals of Samuel Gompers
with the American Federation of Labor?
30.
Who was Eugene Debs?
31.
Define socialism.
32.
How and why did labor unions become involved in violence?
33.
What happened in the Homestead Strike?
34.
What did “Mother Jones” advise the miners
to do…and
why?
35.
What role did the government take against the labor unions?
Why? Do
you agree or disagree?