History Week 2

Questions for consideration in this forum:

1. What was the role of the railroads in the settlement of the Great West?

2. What factors account for the rise of the American steel industry in the late nineteenth century?

3. Why did the AFL prevail over the Knights of Labor?

4. It would be hard to imagine American voters today getting excited about the money supply. So why was free silver the hot topic of the 1896 election?

5. Why was Darwin’s On the Origin of Species, which was strictly about biology, important in the development of the ideology of conservatism?