U.S. History - Due for class on 9-11-18
Gilded Age – PBS
Divorce in the Gilded Age
Standard Oil
Gilded Cage Chapter 1
Student Project / Gilded Age
There is a reading assignment to complete as well. See the handout you received in class on 9-6-18.
1.
What did the divorce cost Alva?
2.
When someone gets married into an Aristocratic
Family, what does that mean for the non-aristocrat family?
3.
How did railroads change farming? 4. How many people did Standard Oil/ J.D. Rockefeller employ at the highpoint of the company?
5. What broke up Standard Oil?
6. What family helped to weaken the Rockefeller hold on the oil industry?
7. Who wrote the Book that the Gilded Age is named after?
8. What does the name refer too?
9. What do the videos and book say about the rise of manufacturing because of the American Civil War?
10. The “broadened scope” during Constitutional/Legal Review of what law recognized that corporations should be legally viewed as people?
10b. Do you agree or disagree?
10c.Why?
11. What is a business monopoly?
12. What illegal thing did Rockefeller demand that railroads do for him?
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