During the late 1800s, many people connected labor unions with violence and foreign influences. Why might people have associated these things with labor unions?

Summarize the arguments for and against monopolies and trusts.

Suppose you were asked to create a graphic organizer in the shape of a pyramid showing the growth of American industry in the last half of the 1800s. At the bottom you plan to write three developments that caused this growth. What three developments would you choose?

Study the given map of industrial centers of the United States. Then, write a paragraph explaining why Pittsburgh's location helped it to become the steel-making capital of the United States.

Why did writers Mark Twain and Charles Warner name the late 1800s the Gilded Age?

How did the Triangle Fire influence public opinion?

How was factory work in the late 1800s different from factory work before the Civil War?

What was the assembly line, and how did it transform manufacturing?

What advantages did the corporation offer to investors?

What methods did railroad companies use to limit competition?

Write sentences that use the given chapter vocabulary words, leaving blanks where the vocabulary words would go. Exchange your sentences with another student, and fill in the blanks in each other's sentences.

trade union

Write sentences that use the given chapter vocabulary words, leaving blanks where the vocabulary words would go. Exchange your sentences with another student, and fill in the blanks in each other's sentences.

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Explain the significance of: (a) Knights of Labor, (b) Haymarket Riot, (c) American Federation of Labor, (d) ILGWU, (e) Triangle Fire.

Explain the significance of: (a) William Vanderbilt, (b) George Westinghouse, (c) Cornelius Vanderbilt.