Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Identification: People & Terms
Leland Stanford Vertical integration Share-croppers
James J. Hill Horizontal integration National Labor Union
Cornelius Vanderbilt Trusts Knights of Labor
“stock watering” Standard Oil Haymarket Riot
Pools Bessemer process American Federation of
The Grange Andrew Carnegie Labor
Wabash case JP Morgan Samuel Gompers
Interstate Commerce U.S. Steel Corporation
Act John D. Rockefeller
Alexander Graham Social Darwinism
Bell Sherman Anti-trust Act
Thomas Alva Edison of 1890
Chapter 24 Focus Questions:
1. In what ways did the U.S. government support the building of the transcontinental railroad?
Why did they do this?
2. What was the Union Pacific Railroad given for each mile of track constructed?
3. Who were the primary workers who built the Union Pacific railroad? The Central Pacific
railroad?
4. What financial problems sometimes occurred with the building of the railroads?
5. What two improvements were made to the railroads? How did they improve the railroads?
6. In what ways did the development of the railroads change American life?
7. How and why did “standard time” come about?
8. Why did farmers consider the ways in which the railroads were operated unjust?
9. What did the Interstate Commerce Act allow the federal government to do?
10. Why was steel making so successful in America?
11. How did the oil industry evolve?
12. What obstacles lay in the way of the industrialization of the South?
13. How did industrialization change the relationship between the owner and the laborer? Why
did this matter?
14. Why were workers powerless to battle corporations?
15. What reforms did the National Labor Union and the Knights of Labor fight for?
16. What were the goals of the AFL? Why was this union more effective?