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Robber Barons and Rebels, Exercises of United States History

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APAH Name: _____________________________
Zinn Ch. 11
Chapter 11 “Robber Barons and Rebels”
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present.
1. What was the technology that transformed the work-place from 1865-1900? What economic and social effects did the
new technology have on American society?
2. Why did it “take money to make money” during the period of rapid economic expansion after the Civil War? What are
the implications of this for the potential for social mobility?
3. How many railroad workers were killed or injured in 1889?
4. How did JP Morgan justify his methods of doing business?
5. What methods did each of the following use to build his fortune:
A) Morgan (banking, railroads, and steel)
B) Rockefeller (oil)
C) Carnegie (steel)
6. Are there any facts surrounding the presidential election of 1884 and its outcome (Cleveland defeats Blaine) that
supports Zinn’s assertion that “Whether Democrats or Republicans won, national policy would not change in any
important way.” Do the policies or legislation during either of the two Cleveland administrations or Benjamin Harrison’s
administration support any or all parts of Zinn’s statement above? How persuasive in Zinn on this point? Explain.
7. How does Zinn argue that the Supreme Court cannot possibly act in a neutral fashion?
8. What was Henry George’s solution to the unequal distribution of wealth? What was Edward Bellamy’s? What
evidence indicates that these ideas were popular at the time?
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APAH Name: _____________________________ Zinn Ch. 11 Chapter 11 “Robber Barons and Rebels” A People’s History of the United States: 1492 to the Present.

  1. What was the technology that transformed the work-place from 1865-1900? What economic and social effects did the new technology have on American society?
  2. Why did it “take money to make money” during the period of rapid economic expansion after the Civil War? What are the implications of this for the potential for social mobility?
  3. How many railroad workers were killed or injured in 1889?
  4. How did JP Morgan justify his methods of doing business?
  5. What methods did each of the following use to build his fortune: A) Morgan (banking, railroads, and steel) B) Rockefeller (oil) C) Carnegie (steel)
  6. Are there any facts surrounding the presidential election of 1884 and its outcome (Cleveland defeats Blaine) that supports Zinn’s assertion that “Whether Democrats or Republicans won, national policy would not change in any important way.” Do the policies or legislation during either of the two Cleveland administrations or Benjamin Harrison’s administration support any or all parts of Zinn’s statement above? How persuasive in Zinn on this point? Explain.
  7. How does Zinn argue that the Supreme Court cannot possibly act in a neutral fashion?
  8. What was Henry George’s solution to the unequal distribution of wealth? What was Edward Bellamy’s? What evidence indicates that these ideas were popular at the time?
  1. What was the primary obstacle to worker unity in the 1880s?
  2. Why would employers want there to be large numbers of unemployed workers around? Why wouldn’t employers want large numbers of unemployed workers?
  3. What evidence exists that the Knights of Labor recruited women and/or blacks? Why was the IWPA (International Working People’s Association) a “powerful influence” within the Central Labor Union of Chicago? Why would a worker belong both to the IWPA and the CLU?
  4. Were the executions of Spies, Parsons, Fischer, and Engel a tactic on the part of business and government to damage the effectiveness of the labor movement? If it was, did it work and why or why not?
  5. What successes did the labor movement score in the 1880s and 1890s?
  6. Why did the Thibodaux workers go on strike? Was the strike successful? What accounts for its success or lack of success?
  7. What were the demands of the Tennessee coal miners in 1891?
  8. Debate Resolution : Evaluate the validity of the following statement and justify the truthfulness or falsehoods of it. “The labor movement was more successful in the North and West than in the South.”
  9. What was Henry Clay Frick’s strategy to break the steelworkers’ union at the Homestead steel plant in Pennsylvania? Did the plan work? What is the evidence to support your answer?
  1. Debate Resolution : Evaluate the validity of the following statement and justify the truthfulness or falsehoods of it. “In the fight against monopolies, farmers ensured their failure by engaging in electoral politics.”
  2. How did the Democratic party use race to defeat the Populists in the South?
  3. Zinn writes: “C. Vann Woodward points to the unique quality of the Populist experience in the South: ‘Never before or since have the two races in the South come so close together as they did during the Populist struggles’” How “close” was that?
  4. Why would creating an alternative culture be a priority for both the Alliance and Populist movements? (How did Alliance and Populist teachings differ from the official teachings in the public school system?)
  5. (Use Brinkley also with Zinn) During the period from 1865 to 1898, how did the political/economic elite: A) contain the demands of blacks for equal rights B) contain the demands of farmers and laborers for economic justice C) and respond to Indians’ desires to be allowed to exist?
  6. Debate Resolution: : Evaluate the validity of the following statement and justify the truthfulness or falsehoods of it. “ The Populist movement failed because it did not attempt to attract labor to its cause.”