- Why were Horatio Alger novels popular?
- What did Congress desire to do with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act?
- Rapid industrialization was enabled by what kind of relationship between business and government?
- What was needed to develop the national market for raw materials and finished goods?
- What was the key to the transformation of the former Confederacy to the “New South”?
- Why were farmers and rural residents able to participate in the new consumer culture of the late 19th century?
- Advocates of the free maker argued that what was the key to success?
- What did trusts destroy?
- How did businessmen of the Gilded Age believe the government protected their rights?
- How did the numbers of white-collar workers change between 1870 and 1910?
- Approximately how many African Americans were lynched between 1884 and 1900?
- According to James Bryce, what was to blame for the mediocre cast of presidential candidates during the Gilded Age?
- Who were the majority of unskilled workers during the Gilded Age?