American History: A Survey 10/e   Alan Brinkley
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Objectives

1. The reasons for the rapid industrial development of the United States in the late nineteenth century.

2. The specific impact of technological innovation in promoting industrial expansion.

3. The role of the individual entrepreneur in the development of particular industries.

4. The changes that were taking place in American business organization.

5. The ways in which classical economics and certain ideas of Darwin were used to justify and defend the new industrial capitalism.

6. The critics of the new industrial capitalism, and the solutions they proposed.

7. The conditions of immigrants, women, and children in the work force.

8. The several efforts of organized labor to form national associations.

9. The reasons that organized labor generally failed in its efforts to achieve its objectives.

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