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2. Read Chapter 18, “Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900,” pp. 521-550.

• Describe the ways in which old industries were transformed in the late nineteenth century, and identify what new industries were born. Explain the roles that the expansion of the railroad industry, the rise of Andrew Carnegie and the steel industry, John D. Rockefeller and the oil industry, and new inventions, including electricity and the telephone, played in this transformation. • Define the factors that engendered the move from competition among American businesses to corporate consolidation. Describe the role J. P. Morgan and finance capitalism played in this consolidation. Explain how the theories of social Darwinism and “The Gospel of Wealth” encouraged it and how the Supreme Court affirmed laissez-faire economics. • Describe the political culture of the late nineteenth century. Explain what made citizens loyal to political parties, and what compelled people to participate in American politics. Define the role race and gender played in political culture. • Describe the issues and personalities that drove presidential and party politics at the national level

Watch excerpts from documentar//y// //or A&E BIO: The Rockefellers//

Video Clip Screening and Analysis – Team 2

History Workshop – Building Carnegie Hall, 1889

Journal – Provide an analysis of each of the following slides (not including the intro)