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Impact of Industry Document Activity

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The Impact of Industrialization on American Society [1865 to 1900]
While Industry makes the country smaller and brings people into an integrated marketplace with new consumer products, their only avenue for participation is as an overworked and underpaid factory worker.

1. Based on the ingredients we outlined in class, what to do feel is the most important ingredient that helped the United States develop into a world industrial power? Please explain your choice. REVIEW NOTES

2. Rapid Industrialization presented very different outcomes for Americans. Which element of American society benefited from the creation of a domestic integrated marketplace? Which element of American society did not enjoy the benefits of this newly integrated marketplace?

The Economics of Industry

3. How does the American Beauty Rose metaphor capture the perspective of Robber barons like can be John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and Andrew Carnegie during the age of industry?

4. The industrialization, which followed the Civil War, had a great impact on many different area of life in the United States. One of the groups most affected by the growth of industry was the American worker. In class we spoke about the literal and figurative death during the age of Industry. Using the documents provided please select at least one document that supports each element of the acronym “D.I.E.S”

Historical Evidence: AGE OF INDUSTRY DOCUMENTS

NOTES: As Industrialization radically transformed the practices of labor and the condition of American working people, industrial strife and the efforts of various reformers and unions attempted to develop effective labor organizations to match corporate forms of business. Go to your notes State of the Union and read the content provided. Please complete the notes on page #8 under LABOR MOVEMENT REVIEW

5. A number of writers and reformers in the period 1865-1914 discussed the growing gap between wealth and poverty in the United States. Using the notes outlined on page #11 and the web support under “The Power of Ideas: Social Thought in the Gilded Age” Explain how the following writers address the growing gap between the rich and the poor during the Gilded Age.

Andrew Carnegie

William Graham Sumner

Henry George

Edward Bellamy