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Can someone help me with these history questions? I will reward you if you can help me out.

(1:) What is the difference between the First Industrial Revolution and the Second Industrial Revolution?

(2:) How did the development of railroads affect the country?

How did new inventions affect the economy?

(3:) What changes took place in Florida during this time and who was responsible for them?

(4:) What is the difference between vertical and horizontal integration?

(5:) How did business leaders work to increase their control over the economy using things like trusts, pools and holding companies?

(6:) Why did farmers have a hard time making money?

(7:) What organizations worked to improve life for farmers and how did they help?

(8:) Why did most farmers support the Free Silver Movement?

(9:) What people and issues were involved in the Election of 1896?

(10:) What are the differences between “old immigration wave” and the “new immigration wave”?

(11:) Why did immigrants come to the United States?

(12:) What was the immigrant experience like? How did it differ depending on where the immigrants were from?

(13:) How were immigrants viewed by the U.S. government and American citizens?

(14:) How did political machines work?

(15:) Who was “Boss” Tweed and how did he use his power?

(16:) Why did the idea of socialism become more popular during this period?

(17:) Who was fighting for the rights of women and African Americans during this period and what methods did they use?

(18:) Why did workers need labor unions? What were their goals?

(19:) How were the Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor similar and different?

(20:) Who fought against the unions? Why?

(21:) Why did some Americans turn to socialism and communism during this period?

(22:) What was the status of unions at the end of the 19th Century?

(23:) Events (Describe the event, its causes and effects)

Haymarket Riot –

Homestead Strike –

Pullman Strike –


(24:) How were immigration, industrialization and urbanization connected?

(25:) What inventions led to the upward and outward spread of cities?

(26:) Describe the three social classes that emerged during this period.

(27:) Why was child labor so common? How did social reformers work to protect children?

(28:) What were the goals of the Social Gospel Movement?


I need help as soon as possible. :(

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2.) the development of railroads affected the country because historians aruge over the fact whether railroads determened the pace of economic development in nineteenth-centry America
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1) The first industrial revolution increased use of coal,and developed steam power

the second revolution introduced electric power ,automatic symbols and structural steel for building or construction

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