Question

1. Explain the main features of the “First Industrial Revolution” and how it differed from the “Second Industrial Revolution”.
2. Identify the factors that contributed to the USA’s economic growth in the late 1800s.
3. Identify the UNIQUE advantages the USA enjoyed over its industrial rivals of Great Britain, France, Germany, and other European nations.
4. Explain the concepts of horizontal and vertical integration as practiced in the U.S. in the late 1800s.
5. Define the term “laissez-faire”; explain U.S government policies toward the economy and their impact in the late 1800s.
6. Identify Frederick Winslow Taylor and explain the concept of “scientific management.”
7. Identify prominent “Robber Barons” (powerful industrialists from the Gilded Era) and the economic activities that produced their wealth.
8. Explain the concepts of Social Darwinism & the Gospel of Wealth.
9. Describe the Impact of rapid industrialization on the standard of living, life expectancy, distribution of wealth, and workforce (kinds of jobs created) in the United States in the late 1800s.
10. Identify the main industrial strikes of the late 1800s and explain the outcome of those strikes.
11. Explain how the Knights of Labor differed from American Federation of Labor in the late 1800s.
12. Identify the factors that caused the organized labor (union) movement in the USA to be WEAK compared to European unions.
13. Explain the basic ideas put forward by authors Edward Bellamy, Thorstein Veblen, and Henry George in their books from the late 1800s.

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