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The Enduring Vision, Fifth Edition
Paul S. Boyer, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Clifford E. Clark, Jr., Carleton College
et al.
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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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