We precede this section with a map quiz and with brief backgrounds on the Civil War, Reconstruction, the Compromise of 1877, and the Constitution.
1. How does big business get to be big
business?
Tip: If you want to cheat in the United
States, how do you do it safely any time? And in this period?
2. The concepts: Railroads,
incorporation, trusts, horizontal (Rockefeller) and vertical (Carnegie)
integration, industrial capitalism and finance capitalism
3. What are the new technologies for
business and for urban life and what are a few examples of what they do to and
for people?
o Study Tool: Chronological Events of
the 1877-1887 Era -
Look at the column US Economic Development.
Purpose: Notice the technologies are primarily
about new industries.
o
Study Tool: Chronological Events of
the 1887-1893 Era -
Look at the list of inventions beneath the table.
Purpose: Notice
the technologies are primarily about
urban life.
4. What happens to laboring people—and
who are they and what are the differences in what they have to sell?
Snapshot of America in the
1870s-1890s (PDF) –
This provides a searchable resource.
5. What are laborers’ attempts to
organize, what’s the difference in the Knights of Labor and the American
Federation of labor, and what is the response to labor by varied levels of
government and business?
What do these words mean: Pinkertons, state militia, federal troops?
o
Without answers for self-testing: Comparison
of Labor Events from 1874 through 1893 – and to the End of the 1890s
o
With
answers for observing patterns: Comparison with Answers
Purpose: Notice where is the labor unrest and
in what industries. Notice how strikes are stopped—is that what you expected to
be the method?
What are these key labor events:
·
Haymarket
– 1886 Chicago
·
Homestead
– 1892 Pennsylvania
·
Pullman
– 1894 Pullman, Illinois
What’s anarchism? Socialism?
If Needed, Going Back in Time: 1867_1877_Andrew
Johnson_to_Hayes Color Coded to Show Trends