Questions Case

Questions:

1a. The improvement I saw most dominate was that from 2% in 1870 to 9% in 1910, high school students that graduate with degrees has increased tremendously.

1b. The most shocking decrease I saw was of the infant mortality rate. From 170 in 1870 to 117 in 1910, was a downfall I never expected.

2. Edison's incandescent electric lamp, or known today as the light bulb, has changed American lives today. The bulb biggest change was that it kind of extended the waking living hours and it changed a wild range of things. Entertainment in my opinion was the area which gained new life, because now people could work during the day and attend theater plays in the evening hours. The theater, the Symphony and so much more gained new life with the light bulb.

3. Henry George described that a wedge was being forced into society, and he was right. Industrialization created a gap in the social classes. Those who would benefit from the gap would be those who ran the company or owned it. The people on top only cared about themselves and how much money they could get by cheating the regular hard working folk. So those being "crushed" by the wedge was the regular Joe, they were on the receiving side of the scam. They would work hard in terrible conditions and still maybe not get paid enough for food.

4a. Carnegie's attitude about the accumulation of wealth and power is the theory of "survival of the fittest." He believes in good and healthy competition, not bad and treacherous.

4b. According to Carnegie, the problems of poverty are solved by entrusting the rich to give to the poor, like God has intended.

5. The miner had to endure closed spaces, deadly gas, and the fear of the tunnel collapsing.

6. In the United States, the Industrial Revolution was somewhat driven by the use