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Annotated by:
Mark Pohl
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The Gilded Age
http://www.ushistory.org/us/36.asp
What industries grow during the Gilded Age?
Explain the effect the Government had on the growth of industries.
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The history of Standard Oil
http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Standard_Oil_Company?rec=988
<p /><p>What is a trust?</p><p>Why is the Standard Oil trust ended?</p>
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Standard Oil political cartoon
http://regentsprep.org/Regents/ushisgov/graphics/3b_5.gif
How is Standard Oil portrayed in the cartoon?/p><p
Is the cartoonist for or against the Standard Oil Company? Explain your answer. |
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The Bessemer process of steel production
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessemer_process
What effect did the Bessemer process have on steel production and the industrial growth of the nation? Explain your answer |
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Andrew Carnegie biography
http://www.biography.com/people/andrew-carnegie-9238756#steel-tycoon
What were the two different views people had of Andrew Carnegie and why? |
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Carnegie and the Homestead Strike
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/carnegie/peopleevents/pande04.html
Based on Andrew Carnegie's response to Mr. Gladstone, did he support Mr. Frick's approach to ending the strike? What sentence in his response supports your answer? |
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Gilded Age political cartoon
http://www.asjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/politicalcartoons-keppler_bosses_of_the_senate.jpg
What is being inferred by the author of this cartoon?
Explain your answer
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Gilded Age timeline
http://www.fasttrackteaching.com/ftap/Timeline6_E5_300g15.gif
After 1880 many steps are taken to help the workers in America and not the Trusts.</p><p>List two of these steps and explain how they might help the common laborer?
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