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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
What is a trust? Why is the Standard Oil trust ended?
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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> |
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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. List two of these steps and explain how they might help the common laborer?
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