1. How is Zinn critical of the enormous amount of philanthropic measures that were conducted by the likes of Carnegie, Morgan, and Rockefeller?

2. What role did newly arrived immigrants from eastern and Southern Europe and China play in the economy at the end of the 19th century?

3. Why were acts such as the Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Act prove to be ineffective?

4. How is Zinn critical of public schools at this time?

5. In general, how did the government respond to labor movements such as the Pullman strike, Haymarket riot, and coal and railroad strikes in 1892?

6. Why can the election of 1896 be considered the end of the Populist movement?

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