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STEP 3: PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

CHAPTER 18 STUDY GUIDE

PUT IT ALL TOGETHER

Now, take a step back and try to explain the big picture. Remember to use specific examples from the chapter in your answers.

THE RISE OF BIG BUSINESS What role did railroads and new technologies play in the rise of American big business? How did the business pioneers of the late nineteenth century organize and grow their businesses?	LATE-NINETEENTH-CENTURY POLITICS How did ideas about gender and race shape late-nineteenth-century politics? How did new social philosophical theories justify business and political practices in the late nineteenth century?
ECONOMIC ISSUES AND POLITICAL CONFLICT How did each Gilded Age president react to economic issues? How did Supreme Court decisions affect economic issues? What made free silver such a powerful and emotional issue in the late nineteenth century?	LOOKING BACKWARD, LOOKING AHEAD How did the role of business in politics in the late nineteenth century differ from its role in the first half of the century? How did the rise of big business affect the economic and political landscape of early-twentieth-century America? In what ways did Americans try to deal with the excesses of big business?

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