Chapter Review

1. Question

   How did industrialization change the American workplace? What challenges did it create for American workers?

2. Question

   How did workers resist the concentrated power of industrial capitalists in the late nineteenth century, and why did such efforts have only limited success?

3. Question

   Why was life so difficult for American farmers in the late nineteenth century?

4. Question

   What were the similarities and differences between farmers’ and industrial workers’ efforts to organize in the late nineteenth century?

5. Question

   How did the federal government respond to the depression of 1893?

6. Question

   What were the long-term political consequences of the depression of 1893?