THE FOLLOWING ARE EXAM QUESTIONS FOR YOUR NEXT UNIT TEST. TWO OF THESE QUESTIONS WILL BE ON THE EXAM; YOU WILL CHOOSE TO WRITE ON ONE

1.      To what extent was the path to labor organization marked by false starts and wrong moves during the period 1865 – 1900.

 

2.      Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the wealth that was created in the United States during the late nineteenth century.

Andrew Carnegie

Horatio Alger

Ida M. Tarbell

Eugene V. Debs

Booker T. Washington

 

 

4.      Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900.

Government actions

Labor Unions

Immigration

Technology changes

 

5.      Assess the changing status of Blacks between emancipation and the end of the nineteenth century.

 

6.      To what extent was the economic growth of the United States between 1860 and 1900 encouraged and sustained by direct governmental intervention and not attributed to a governmental policy of laissez-faire.

 

7.      Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late nineteenth century.

 

8.      How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions?

10. "The Progressive movement of 1900 to 1917 was a triumph of conservatism rather than a victory for liberalism." Assess the validity of this statement.