It's March! Booyah!
The Gilded Age continuous...and comes to an end!
- What industries where Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, and J.P. Morgan dominant in? (List them)
- How did John D. Rockefeller just dominate, and I mean, dominate the oil industry?
- What were three companies J.P. Morgan owned at one point?
- After reading about Henry Ford, briefly tell me who he was as a person and what his effects were on the automobile industry? (This is a tough Q...)
- How did the Chicago Fire of 1871 change the way modern cities were built?
- What were some of the pros and cons of immigration & how did/do immigrants contribute to society? Where did most immigrants from 1880-1920 come from? How "well" did immigrants live when they lived in the cities? (Check out the pics...)
- What are two contributions/positive impacts immigrants have on the nation they move to? (This is
- What were two pros and cons of urbanization in the late 19th century?
- What were some new inventions in the late 19th century? Watch the black & white flick. Seriously, it's legit....How did the inventions of the late 19th century make America a "modern" nation?
- How do we still live in a "gilded" age? (You gotta think about this one...This is an inference-based Q....it ain't an easy one.)
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“The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men -- go to farming, work hard, and they did not want to anyway...If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many Indians…”
-Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of Santee Sioux
