AP U.S. History Period 6: 1865-1898
Titan of Industry or Robber Baron?
November 1902, Ida Tarbell wrote a series of 19 carefully researched articles in McClure's Magazine, detailing how John D. Rockefeller ruthlessly forced his competitors to "sell or perish." She correctly identified railroad discounts, specifically outlawed by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, as key to creating Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly. Tarbell helped push the federal government to investigate the Standard Oil Trust.
The Woman Who Took On Standard Oil
Influential Biography page for Ida Tarbell, Investigative Journalist and Muckraker
Working Conditions
Link here for a page on the Rise of Unions and Radical Political Parties
Topics on the Rise of the Unions page
Unions and Their Goals
- History of Labor Day and the Pullman Strike
- The Great Railway Strike of 1877
- Bread and Roses Strike (1912)
- The New York Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
- Knights of Labor
- The Haymarket Riot of 1886
- American Federation of Labor headed by Samuel Gompers
- Industrial Workers of the World
Radical Political Parties and Their Goals
- the Populist Party
- the Socialist Party headed by Eugene Debs
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