Homework/In-class Assignment Railroads and the Gilded Age 30 points Please read your chapter, the attached lecture notes. Then answer the following questions. Remember to use complete sentences and write with clarity and good analysis. 1. Discuss the concept of laissez-faire as it was used in the late nineteenth century to describe the ideal relationship between the U.S. government and the American economy. How was the relationship between the two truly “laissez faire” during the Gilded Age and how, on the other hand, did government actually work to build and strengthen corporate capitalism? 2. Discuss the concept of social Darwinism. Include a summary of its roots and an explanation of the theory itself. How did Andrew Carnegie's gospel of wealth refine the concept? 3. Describe and explain Vertical Integration and Horizontal Integration. (This is an Identification question; your answer should include information about who developed it, what it was, how it was implemented, what the effect was, what the consequences were for business and for the people of the time and why it is important for students to understand it today.) 4. Using the internet, your text and other outside sources, discover and then describe in detail one instance of Labor Violence between 1877 and 1889. Remember to include information about who was involved, what started and ended the violence, where it took place, when and why it happened, what were the consequences for the people of the time and why it is important for students to understand it today. 5. Discuss three ways leading industrialists transformed American business in the late nineteenth century. Considering Ida Tarbell's criticism of John D. Rockefeller, should those industrialists be considered symbols of American business ingenuity or of ruthless business practices?