REVOLUTION BY RAILROAD
Terms and Thinking Points (I)
transcontinental railroad
Pacific Railroad Act (1862)
Homestead Act (1862)
Union Pacific
Central Pacific
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
pool
rebate
trust
monopoly
Crédit Mobilier scandal
vertical integration
oligopoly
Standard Oil
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
holding company
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Santa Clara v. Southern Pacific Railroad Company (1886)
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad v. Illinois (1886)
U.S. v. E.C. Knight (1895)
Henry Demarest Lloyd
Edward Atkinson
J. P. Morgan
investment banking
Andrew Carnegie
Gospel of Wealth
John D. Rockefeller
Jay Gould
"robber baron"

 Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer
William Graham Sumner
laissez faire
Henry George
Lester Frank Ward
E. L. Godkin
The Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Panic of 1873
Molly Maguires
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Sqaure Riot (1886)
American Federation of Labor
Homestead Strike
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Pullman Strike
Eugene V. Debs
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW)
"Big Bill" Haywood
Socialist Party
Clarence Darrow
Western Federation of Miners
Ludlow Massacre
American Protective Association
Chicago



1.  Describe the revolutionary growth of corporations in America after the Civil War.  What kind of challenges resulted from this transformation?
2.  What were some of the positive and negative contributions of the post-war entrepreneurs also known as "robber barons"?
3.  How was the economic growth of the postwar years tied to consumer spending?
4.  How did the nature of work change as a result of industrialization?
5.  Describe the growth of unionism in America and how it compared to unionism in other countries.
6.  How did cities change in the postwar years?


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