Using Zinn, the readings from Ruling America, and Hoefle’s “Bitter Harvest” answer the following questions. Please follow prompt, cite the appropriate pages, and fulfill the assigned page numbers.
Using Zinn and Nasaw’s “Gilded Age Gospels” (from Ruling America), describe the evolution of industrial capitalism in the U.S. after the Civil War. How did business argue for their interests, and how did the emerging labor union movement argue for their interests? (2 pages)
What was significant about the year 1877 in the North and South, and what outcomes did this significance produce? (2 pages)
According to Hoefle, how did ideas of race influence violence on the frontier? (1 page)
