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    The document provides reading and analysis questions to guide students in their review of Chapter 17 content presented in class. It includes questions about the transition of the US economy from agricultural to manufacturing-based between 1861-1890, the role of industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller and business practices like horizontal and vertical integration. It also questions monopolies, trusts, their impacts on consumers, arguments made by industrialists in their defense, and attempts to temper those arguments. Immigrant demographics and characteristics of immigrant women and children workers are discussed. The Knights of Labor union and American Federation of Labor are described in terms of membership and leadership. The impacts of the Homestead and Pullman strikes on workers are noted. Factors impeding union and worker progress

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    The document provides reading and analysis questions to guide students in their review of Chapter 17 content presented in class. It includes questions about the transition of the US economy from agricultural to manufacturing-based between 1861-1890, the role of industrialists like Carnegie and Rockefeller and business practices like horizontal and vertical integration. It also questions monopolies, trusts, their impacts on consumers, arguments made by industrialists in their defense, and attempts to temper those arguments. Immigrant demographics and characteristics of immigrant women and children workers are discussed. The Knights of Labor union and American Federation of Labor are described in terms of membership and leadership. The impacts of the Homestead and Pullman strikes on workers are noted. Factors impeding union and worker progress

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    CHAPTER 17 ANALYSIS Part 1

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    CHAPTER 17 ANALYSIS

    The reading and analysis questions are meant to supplement the presentations and the content being presented in class. They will also act as a guide for the Chapter 17 assessment.

    Part 1: Please read pages 472-479 (up to The Trust & the Holding Company)
    1. hat proo! is there that the "nited #tates $ent !rom an agri%ultural &ased e%onomy in 1'(1 to a manu!a%turing &ased e%onomy &y 19))* 2. Ho$ did te%hnologi%al inno+ations impa%t this transition* ,. hat role did Carnegie- .o%/e!eller and 0organ play in &usiness 1meri%a* hat %ompanies did they represent* hat /ind o! &usiness2e%onomi% pra%ti%es did they su&s%ri&e to* 4. hat is the di!!eren%e &et$een hori3ontal and +erti%al integrations*

    Part 2: Please read pages 479 (starting at The Trust and the Holding Company) through 4'4 (up to 1lternati+e 4isions). 1lso read pages 4'4 (starting at The Pro&lems o! 0onopoly) through 49) (up to The 5reat .ailroad #tri/e)- and pages 49) (starting at the 6nights o! 7a&or) through 494.
    1. 2. ,. 4. :. (. 7. '. 9. hat are monopolies* hat are trusts* Ho$ do &oth hurt %onsumers $hile helping &usinesses* hat t$o arguments $ere made &y industrialists to de!end their $ealth* 1nd- ho$ did &usinessmen attempt to temper these arguments* hat is the main reason that ur&an populations in%reased so dramati%ally during industriali3ation* hat is the di!!eren%e &et$een 8ne$9 and 8old9 immigration* hat ethni% group %onstituted the largest num&er o! immigrants in the "nited #tates &et$een 1'()-19))* Pro+ide : %hara%teristi%s o! immigrants- $omen and %hildren in the industrial $or/!or%e. hat $ere the 6nights o! 7a&or* hi%h types o! $or/ers did they $el%ome and $ho did they e;%lude* hat issues did they %hampion* ho $as their leader* hat $as the 1<7* hi%h types o! $or/ers did they $el%ome and $ho did they e;%lude* hat issues did they %hampion* ho $as their leader* Ho$ is the Homestead #tri/e seen as a set&a%/ &y $or/ers* The Pullman #tri/e*

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    hat !a%tors impeded progress !or $or/ers and unions at the turn o! the 2)th %entury*

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