Exam 19: The Rise of Corporate America, 1865-1914

In the 1920s, few Americans could afford automobiles.

The strike at the Homestead plant in Pennsylvania is famous for

During the nineteenth century, the Sherman Antitrust Act

One leading painter of American Impressionism was William Merrit ____________________.

The winner of the 1896 presidential election was

In the late nineteenth century, the ___________________ was celebrated in popular culture as the symbol of modern, educated, independent womanhood.

The leader of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, the largest women's social organization of the late nineteenth century, was​

The issue that caused the Populist Party to be absorbed by the Democratic Party was

A violent confrontation in Chicago between workers and police that was blamed on anarchists occurred at ____________________.

William McKinley ran a ____________________ campaign, inviting various delegations to his Ohio home to  hear carefully crafted speeches on a host of topics.

The Sherman Antitrust Act was first used against labor unions during the ____________________.

The Knights of Labor sought equal pay for women.

During the Homestead strike, public sympathy began with the strikers but shifted against them over time.

During the Gilded Age, railroad pricing practices meant that

In Lochner v. New York, the Supreme Court ruling was a victory for the

Jay Cooke opposed risky speculation.

American grain production grew at about the same rate as the nation's population from 1870 to 1890.

The Interstate Commerce Act outlawed

The president of the American Railway Union who became a socialist after being jailed during the Pullman strike was ____________________.

Examine the changes  in women's lives in the decades after the Civil War, both in terms of new ideas about their roles and opportunities as well as the resistance to these changes. Your discussion should address class dynamics as well.