AP US History Chapter 24 Dickinson/ Page 1
Name/Date/Period:
Industry Comes of Age, 1865—1900
1.Leland Stanford - Collis P. Huntington
16. trust
Central Pacific Railroad
17. interlocking directorate
2.Samuel Gompers American Federation of Labor
18. land grant
19. capital goods
3.James J. Hill
20. plutocracy
4.Cornelius Vanderbilt
21. injunction
5.Jay Gould
22. Union Pacific Railroad
6. Alexander Graham Bell - Telephone
23. Grange
7. Thomas Edison
24. Wabash case
8.Andrew Carnegie - United States Steel
25. Bessemer process
9.John D. Rockefeller -Standard Oil Company
26. National Labor Union
10. J. Pierpont Morgan
27. Terence V. Powderly- Knights of Labor
11. stock watering
28. John P. Altgeld- Haymarket riot
12. pool
29.William Graham Sumner - Social Darwinism
13. rebate
30. yellow dog contract
14. vertical integration
31.Russell Conwell - gospel of wealth
15 .horizontal integration
AP US History Chapter 24 Dickinson/ Page 2
Name/Date/Period:
Industry Comes of Age, 1865—1900
32.Charles Dana Gibson
34. Anarchist
33.Henry Grady- New South
1.Compare the impact of the new industrialization on the North and the South. Why was the “New South” more a slogan than a
reality?
2. What was the impact of the transcontinental rail system on the American economy and society in the late nineteenth century?
3. Identify the abuses in the railroad industry and discuss how these led to the first efforts at industrial regulation by the federal
government. How effective were these efforts?
4.Discuss the growing class conflict caused by industrial growth and combination, and the early efforts to alleviate it.
Was the growing class division of the time a threat to American democracy? Why or why not?
5.What was the effect of the new industrial revolution on American laborers, and how did various labor organizations attempt to
respond to the new conditions?
Why were business and the middle-class public generally hostile to allowing workers to organize as industry did? Why did the AF of
L survive while the Knights of Labor failed?
6. Describe the benefits and drawbacks of industrialization for various groups (business, labor, women, minorities, immigrants).
7. Using Edison as a symbol of the emerging technological and industrial age, show how his inventions were quickly taken up and
incorporated into huge new industries.
8. Use the Haymarket affair to illustrate the growing class conflicts in industrial America and to highlight the debates over how
American workers should respond to the new industrial conditions.
9.How did the huge industrial trusts develop in industries such as steel and oil, and what was their effect on the economy?
10.William Graham Sumner said that the wealth and luxury enjoyed by millionaires was justifiable as a “good bargain for society.”
Based on the industrialists’ role in the late 1800s, support or criticize Sumner’s assertion.
11.How did the industrial transformation after the Civil War compare with the earlier phase of American economic development?
(See Chapter 14.) Why were the economic developments of 1865-1900 often seen as a threat to American democracy, whereas
those of 1815-1860 were not?
Required vocabulary:
1.pool
9.Third World
2.rebate
10.socialist (socialism)
3.free enterprise
11.radical
4.regulatory commission
12.lockout
5.trust
13.yellow dog contract
6.syndicate
14.cooperative
7.patrician
15.anarchist (anarchism)
8. plutocracy
AP US History Chapter 24 Dickinson/ Page 3
Industry Comes of Age, 1865—1900
Name/Date/Period: