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Chapter 13 Study Guide The Expansion of American Industry

Directions: Answer all of the questions on this study guide; it is due on the day of the test. Study Guides must be handwritten. Don’t forget to study your terms also!

1. Describe daily life in 1865 compared to 1900: 2. Why are patents important to inventors? 3. What important thing did Edwin L. Drake do? 4. What important thing did Thomas Edison do? 5. What important thing did Lewis Latimer do? 6. What important thing did George Westinghouse do? 7. What did the growth of railroads lead to? 8. List and explain the ways in which railroads played a key role in revolutionizing

business and industry in the United States: 9. The Bessemer process made it possible to do what? 10. What began in the United States as a result of the Bessemer process? 11. When Americans thought of the business owners and industrialists of this time, they

could either think of them as “robber barons” or “captains of industry”. Explain the difference between these two views:

12. What did Social Darwinists believe? Be specific. 13. What did the Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 try to do? 14. What was factory work like in the late 1800s? Be specific. 15. How did the relationship between workers and owners change at this time? 16. Why were children forced to work in the late 1800s? 17. What problems did children have to deal with in America at this time? 18. Describe the gulf/gap between the rich and the poor: 19. What were early labor unions like? 20. List and describe the three big labor unions of this time: 21. How did employers react to labor unions? (there are five specific ways that they

reacted) 22. Describe the Great Railroad Strike of 1877: 23. What important thing did Eugene V. Debs do? 24. Describe the Haymarket Strike of 1886: (when it took place, where it took place, why

it happened, who was involved, the outcome, etc.) 25. What was the Haymarket Riot? 26. Describe the Homestead Strike of 1892: (when it took place, where it took place, why

it happened, who was involved, the outcome, etc.) 27. Describe the Pullman Strike of 1894: (when it took place, where it took place, why it

happened, who was involved, the outcome, etc.) 28. What were the positives (good things) about such fast industrial growth and what

were the negatives (bad things) about such fast industrial growth? 29. What is the difference between a primary source and a secondary source? Give

examples. 30. What happened at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory on March 26, 1911? How did this

event lead to better working conditions for factory workers? You must be very specific and give lots of examples and details!