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Test review chapter 14

Test review chapter 14. People to know. Edwin L. Drake Mary Harris “Mother” Jones Eugene V. Debs George M. Pullman Christopher Sholes Alexander Graham Bell John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie Thomas Alva Edison Henry Bessemer. topics.

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Test review chapter 14

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  1. Test review chapter 14

  2. People to know • Edwin L. Drake • Mary Harris “Mother” Jones • Eugene V. Debs • George M. Pullman • Christopher Sholes • Alexander Graham Bell • John D. Rockefeller Andrew Carnegie • Thomas Alva Edison Henry Bessemer

  3. topics • Understand that land grants were given to railroad companies by the government • The Central Pacific railroad employed thousands of Chinese immigrants • The Union Pacific employed Irish immigrants • The US in divided into 4 time zones • What the Granger laws were ( who they protected and from what)

  4. By the end of the 19th century a quarter of the nation’s railroads had been taken over by financial companies.

  5. The Bosses of the Senate What is the setting? What do the large men in the back of the room represent? Who are the smaller men in the picture? Understand the main idea of this cartoon

  6. topics • Inventions • Pullman • Triangle Shirtwaist Factory • know that radical unionists and socialists started the Industrial Workers of the World • know that Carnegie dominated the steel industry

  7. Do you think that the actions of the industrialists were more beneficial to the • United States than they were harmful? • Consider the major inventions of the late 19th and early 20th century. List at least three inventions and discuss their effects on life at the time. • What factors allowed the United States to industrialize very rapidly during the • last half of the 19th century? • How did 19th-century industrialists encourage competition? How did they discourage competition?

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