Who were the four “biggest” business leaders during the Gilded Age of
Industrialization and what industry did they dominate?
What makes business leaders during Industrialization of the late 1800s a “captain of
industry”? a “robber baron”?
What is a monopoly and what methods or strategies did business leaders use to
create monopolies?
How did monopolies affect immigrants and the general population?
What was the motivation of labor unions?
What methods and strategies did labor unions use to accomplish their goals? How
effective were they?
What was the government’s role in business during the Gilded Age?
What was the reason for unlimited immigration during the late 1800s and early
1900s?
Why was there so much migration from the rural areas of the west and the south?
Who were nativists and why was there a conflict between nativists and immigrants?