Problem: Businesses are controlling the market, unfair price setting and extreme labor practices.
Key Terms that need to be included in your project:
Sherman Antitrust Act
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
Ida Tarbell
Resources:
A Nation Transformed (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Diane Hart; Date: 2005; Publisher: TCI
Regulating Business (Answers question #2 and #3)
Citation: Author: Boyer and Stuckey et al.; Date : 2001; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
An Explosion of Industrial Growth (Answers all 3 questions)
Citation: Author: Diane Hart; Date: 2008; Publisher: TCI
Inspiration for Reform (Answers question #2)
Citation: Author: Boyer and Stuckey et al.; Date : 2001; Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (Answers questions 2 and 3)
Essential Research Questions
What was the problem that your activist group was trying to improve? (Standard #1B)
What methods/strategies did they use to try to solve this problem? (Standard #1B)
How effective/successful was this group at creating change and why? (Standard #1A and #1C)
How are activists today trying to solve problems that are similar or related to your topic? (Standard #4)
Modern Day Connections for Question #4: