What did Congress desire to do with the passage of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

  • 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?