UNITED STATES HISTORY SINCE 1865 Industrial America Work:
Women and Minorities: What additional problems and challenges did women and minorities face in the industrial workplace?
Forms of Business Integration: Discuss the difference between vertical and horizontal integration. If you had a big business, which form would you use? Why?
Workers: What were the working conditions in factories at this time?
Modern America and the Gilded Age Industry and Urbanization: How did industry impact urbanization and how did urbanization impact industry? Explain.
Growth and Urban problems: What problems did such rapid urbanization create? How did people deal with these problems?
Technology: How did new technology impact cities at this time? Progressivism Progressivism: What was progressivism as a movement? Who led it and what did it seek to accomplish?
President Taft: Was Taft like Roosevelt or not in regard to progressive reform?
Muckrakers: What were muckrakers and what impact did they have on progressive reform?
The American Empire Manhan and his ideas: Who was Alfred T. Mahan, what did he want to do, and was he successful? Explain.
Hawaii: Why did we become involved in Hawaiian politics and, eventually, take it as a territory?
The Spanish war: Why did the war begin? Why did we win?