Name________________________

CH4: The Triumph of Industry 1865-1920

Date______________ Block_____
PRIOR KNOWLEDGE: pre/post SELF-ASSESSMENT
Directions: Respond to the following questions specifying your current general knowledge and comprehension of the concepts,
people, places, issues, and events and their impact on this particular era in American Studies.
1. Why did industry continue to dramatically expand after the
Civil War? What factors spurred industrial growth in the late
19th and early 20th Centuries?

6. What assumption does Social Darwinism make about the

poor? How were workers exploited by big business?

2. What is a patent? Why would a patent encourage the work

of inventors? How did new inventions impact the lives of
ordinary American?

7. How did the federal government respond to big business at

the turn of the 20th Century? Protective tariffs? Laissez-faire?

3. Explain the Bessemer process and analyze its impact on

American business, economy and society? Who capitalizes
most on its utilization? How so?

8. What was the Haymarket Riot? What impact did it have on

the labor movement?

4. What strategies did corporations use to decrease costs and

increase profits? Vertical integration? Horizontal integration?
Monopoly? Trusts? Etc.

9. Who was Eugene V. Debs? How did the government respond

to his actions in the Pullman strike?

5. Why were entrepreneurs at the turn of the 20 th Century

looked upon as Robber Barons and or Titans of Industry?

10. Name some early labor organizations. How did they use
collective bargaining? How di the rise of labor unions shape
relations among workers, big business, and government?

entrepreneur

protective tariff

laissez-faire

monopoly

communism

Social
Darwinism

Interstate
Commerce
Commission

Bessemer
process
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trust

corporation

Sherman antiTrust Act

patent

company town

collective
bargaining

Homestead
Strike

Haymarket
Riot

horizontal
integration

Knights of
Labor

Pullman Strike

vertical
integration