WESTWARD EXPANSION INDUSTRIALIZATION URBANIZATION 1870 1900
AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT IN THE GILDED AGE
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Question
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From the Flocabulary lesson “The Gilded Age":Why did Pulitzer’s newspapers exaggerate details about Spanish rule?
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to help workers organize into unions
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to help Teddy Roosevelt get elected president
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to shame robber barons
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to sell more newspapers
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -The so-called captains of industry became household names: John D. Rockefeller of Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie of Carnegie Steel, and J. Pierpont Morgan, the powerful banker who controlled a great many industries. Their tactics were not always fair, but there were few laws regulating business conduct at that time.
Detailed explanation-2: -From the text “The Coeur d’Alene Miners’ Uprising": How does paragraph 18 contribute to the development of ideas in the text? It shows that violence was a necessary course of action for the miners.
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