The American Nation A History of the United States, Combined Volume (14th Edition)

470 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Rockefeller and other Standard Oil offi- cials that without violating their con- scie ...

American Ambivalence to Big Business 471 covered an entire block and employed 2,000 persons. John Wanamaker in Philadelphia and ...

472 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges supply a hard scientific substitute for Smith’s “invisi- ble hand” as an explanation ...

Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd 473 Although in isolated cases monopolists did raise prices unreasonably, generally they did n ...

474 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges in 1888 by Edward Bellamy. This book, which sold over a million copies in its first f ...

The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation 475 “are just as harmonious as roast beef and a hungry stomach.” Yet ...

476 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges commissions were incompetent and even corrupt. When the Supreme Court, in the case of ...

The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act 477 Federal action came in 1890 with the passage of the Sherman ...

478 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges The Labor Union Movement At the time of the Civil War only a small percentage of the ...

Labor Militancy Rebuffed 479 the sense of belonging to a group. In other words, despite statements such as Strasser’s, unions, i ...

480 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Baltimore and Ohio system in response to a wage cut and spread to other eastern lines ...

Whither America, Whither Democracy? 481 suggestion for a man of Cleveland’s conservative, laissez-faire approach to economic iss ...

482 Chapter 17 An Industrial Giant Emerges Key Terms American Federation of Labor (AFL) A union, formed in 1886, that organized ...

Chapter Review 483 Read and Review Chapter 17 Railroads & New Transportation Systems,p. 460 J.P. Morgan, p. 460 Edison,The S ...

Have you been kicked out of a mall? 484 The Mall of America outside Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the largest enclosed mall in the ...

18 American Society in the Industrial Age American Society in the Industrial Age CONTENTS ■Lewis Hine’s 1910 photograph shows a ...

486 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age The Breakfast(1911), by William McGregor Paxton, shows a middle-class husb ...

Skilled and Unskilled Workers 487 Increasingly family life was defined in terms of tan- gible goods: especially large houses, wh ...

488 Chapter 18 American Society in the Industrial Age As businesses grew larger, personal contact between employer and hired han ...

Working-Class Family Life 489 spent most of their income on food; others saved substantial sums even when earning no more than $ ...