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538 Chapter 18 | Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900
15. Describe the various attempts at labor organization in this era, from the Molly Maguires to the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor. How were the goals, philosophies, and tactics of these groups similar and different? How did their agendas represent the concerns and grievances of their members and of workers more generally?
16. Describe the various violent clashes between labor and management that occurred during this era. What do these events reveal about how each group had come to view the other?
17. How did the new industrial order represent both new opportunities and new limitations for rural and working-class urban Americans?
18. How did the emergent consumer culture change what it meant to be “American” at the turn of the century?
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