Identifications
Chapter 18:
The Rise of Industrial America, 1865-1900
After reading Chapter 18, you should be able to identify and explain the historical significance of each
of the following:
Jay Gould, Collis P. Huntington, James J. Hill
Interstate Commerce Act and Interstate Commerce Commission, 1887
J. Pierpont Morgan
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
United States v. E. C. Knight Co., 1895
Thomas A. Edison
Henry W. Grady and the "New South Creed"
William H. Sylvis and the National Labor Union
Terence V. Powderly and the Knights of Labor
Mother Jones
Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
Samuel Gompers and the American Federation of Labor
railroad strikes of 1877
Haymarket Square bombing, 1886
Homestead strike, 1892
Pullman strike, 1894
Eugene Debs
William Graham Sumner and conservative Social Darwinism
Lester Frank Ward
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backward
Marxist socialists
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