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pRacTIcIng historical Thinking

Identify: Summarize DeLeon’s advice to the strikers.

Analyze: Why does DeLeon draw a contrast between politics and religion? Why

does he draw a connection between politics and wages?

Evaluate: To what extent is DeLeon’s argument the opposite of Andrew Carnegie’s

argument (Doc. 13.6)? Explain your response.

applyIng ap® historical Thinking Skills

sKill review Periodization and historical argumentation

All of the documents in this chapter are from the same time period, sometimes called the

Gilded Age. Name and justify three events that could qualify as the turning points that

began the Gilded Age. In what ways do at least three of the documents above reflect each

of the turning points that you chose? Refer to your textbook and class notes for outside

information, as well as chapters 13 and 14, as needed.

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