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Assignment:
1. Is it more valid to refer to the United States as a "melting pot" or a "salad bowl"?
2. When and for what reasons did the following groups come to the United States in the largest numbers?
a) British
b) Germans
c) Irish
d) Scandinavians
e) Eastern Europeans
f) Russians
g) Italians
h) Asians
3. Why did most immigrants who came to the United States before 1870 settle on farms? Why did most immigrants who came after 1870 settle in cities?
4. What factors shaped the ways in which US cities expanded in the late nineteenth century?
5. What innovations in technology and business practices helped launch the vast increases in the size and scale of industrial production in the post-Civil War period?
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages for businessmen in each of the following forms of business organization?
a) Single proprietorship
b) Partnership
c) Corporation
7. How did John D Rockefeller use each of the following methods to build Standard Oil?
a) Pooling
b) Rebates
c) Vertical Integration
d) Trusts
8. Why was each of the following men called either "Captains of industry" or "robber barons"?
a) John D Rockefeller
b) Commodore Vanderbilt
c) Andrew Carnegie
d) J.P. Morgan
9. How did the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant and the activities of Boss Plunkett of Tammany Hall illustrate the impact of industrialization and urbanization on American political life?
10. How did each of the following react to the growth of business consolidation, 1865-1890?
a) Farmers
b) Government
c) Labor