Chapter 16: Survival Of The Fittest: Entrepreneurs And Workers In Industrial America, 1865 - 1900

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Identify the factors that led to rapid economic growth and industrial expansion after the Civil War.
   
   
2. Analyze the constraints that faced railroad developers and explain how the choices they consequently made influenced other enterprises.
   
   
3. Explain how technology and prevailing business practices defined the expectations of entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller and how they dealt with competition.
   
   
4. Describe the working conditions that American workers faced during the late nineteenth century.
   
   
5. Explain how American labor sought to improve its working and living conditions in the late nineteenth century, and identify major instances of labor protest.
   
   
6. Explain what is meant by Social Darwinism and by the Gospel of Wealth.