APUSH - Cornwell
FEB 16-24, 2011
1. INDUSTRIAL AMERICA in the LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY
 Corporate consolidation of industry
 Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
 Labor and unions
 National politics and influence of corporate power
 Migration and immigration: changing face of the nation
 Proponents and opponents of the new order (e.g. “Social Darwinism and Social Gospel”)
AMSCO pp. 333-347 (CH 17)
EV pp. 543-573 (CH 18)
ESSENTIAL QUESTION (S):
INDUSTRY
AMSCO
To what extent is it justified to characterize the industrial leaders of the 1865-1900 era as either “robber barons”
or “captains of industry”?
2001 FRQ #4
How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in
the United States?
LABOR
1998 FRQ #3
Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900.
 Government actions
 Immigration
 Labor Unions
 Technological changes
2000 DBQ
How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900?
Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved.
Use the documents and your knowledge of the period from 1875 to 1900 to construct your response.
2009 FRQ #4
Choose TWO of the following organizations and explain their strategies for advancing the interests of workers.
To what extent were these organizations successful in achieving their objectives? Confine your answer to the
period from 1875 to 1925.
 Knights of Labor
 American Federation of Labor
 Socialist Party of America
 Industrial Workers of the World
IMMIGRATION
2005 FRQ #4
Describe the patterns of immigration in TWO of the periods listed below. Compare and contrast the responses
of Americans to immigrants in these periods.
 1820 to 1860
 1880 to 1924
 1965 to 2000
2009 FRQ #4
Choose TWO of the following organizations and explain their strategies for advancing the interests of workers.
To what extent were these organizations successful in achieving their objectives? Confine your answer to the
period from 1875 to 1925.
 Knights of Labor
 American Federation of Labor
 Socialist Party of America
 Industrial Workers of the World
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Jay Gould
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Transcontinental RR
Union & Central Pacific RR
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce
Commission, 1887
7. J. Pierpont Morgan
8. Laissez-faire capitalism
9. Gospel of Wealth
10. Andrew Carnegie
11. U.S. Steel
12. Bessemer Process
13. Vertical integration
14. Horizontal consolidation
15. John D. Rockefeller &
Standard Oil
16. Robber Barons
17. Captains of Industry
18. Industrial Statesmen
19. Sherman Anti-Trust Act,
1890
20. United States v. E. C.
Knight Co. (1895)
21. Thomas A. Edison
22. William H. Sylvis and the
National Labor Union
23. Terence V. Powderly and
the Knights of Labor
24. Samuel Gompers
25. American Federation of
Labor
26. Railroad strikes of 1877
27. Haymarket Square
bombing, 1886
28. Homestead strike, 1892
29. Pullman strike, 1894
30. Eugene V. Debs
31. Panic of 1893
32. William Graham Sumner
33. Horatio Alger “rags to
riches”
34. Conservative Social
Darwinism
35. Lester Frank Ward
36. Henry George, Progress and
Poverty
37. Edward Bellamy, Looking
Backward
38. Chinese Exclusion Act,
1882
39. Thomas Edison
40. George Westinghouse
41. Sears and Roebuck
42. Montgomery Ward