Linking to the Past

1. Compare the lives of migrant workers and industrial cowboys in the West to workers in the nation’s cities. What are the major similarities? (See chapter 17.)

2. You have already looked at the development of America’s industries in the nineteenth century from the vantage point of moguls such as Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller. How does your view of industrialism change when the focus is shifted to the nation’s workers? (See chapter 18.)