The Rise of Smokestack America

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The Rise of Smokestack America

• Chapter 18

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Timeline
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Discussion Questions

• 1. Discuss the major factors that promoted the
  development of industrialization in the United
  States during the late nineteenth century.
• 2. Discuss the development of the railroad
  business during the last half of the nineteenth
  century in the United States and explain how
  railroad companies manifested the structure and
  problems of American corporations during that
  period.

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• 3. Discuss the characteristics of the American
  population in the late nineteenth century and
  analyze the nature of immigration into the
  country during that period.
• 4. Discuss the lifestyle of the typical
  middle-class American woman during the late
  nineteenth century.

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• 5. Assume you were a middle-class American man
  residing in an industrial city during the late
  nineteenth century. Describe the values you
  might hold and the opportunities which might be
  open to you.
• 6. Assume you were a member of a working-class
  American family residing in a major industrial
  city during the late nineteenth century.
  Describe the conditions under which your family
  would probably have lived.

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• 7. Discuss the composition of the American
  industrial working class during the late
  nineteenth century and indicate the hierarchy of
  jobs among the various groups that composed that
  working class.
• 8. Suppose you were a typical industrial worker
  in the United States during the late nineteenth
  century. Describe the conditions under which you
  would probably be working.

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• 9. Discuss the various means by which industrial
  workers in late nineteenth-century America
  protested against what they considered to be
  unsatisfactory working conditions.
• 10. Trace the attempts to organize American
  industrial labor on a national scale during the
  late nineteenth century and evaluate the success
  of those attempts.

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Size of Industry
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Foreign Immigrants
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Working class
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Labor Force
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Number of Women