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Critical Thinking 23. How have recent inventions such as the personal computer and the cell phone changed your daily life? The computer makes life easier. It has lots of information thats hard to find looking in newspapers and other resources. The cellphone makes it easier to keep in contact with my parents and associates. It also convient because you cant always find a pay phone.

24. Choose two visuals from the chapter and explain how they reflect the impact of industralism on American society. My first visual is people looking at electric building at 1893. The building boasted more than 18,000 eletric light bulb and showed how important electricty was in 1800s. My second visual was wealthy industralist enjoying wealth and side picture the many workers living in boarding houses. It shows how some struggle and rich prosper.

25. Why do you think the federal goverment was friendly to the industrialist even when much of the public did not support them? The goverment just saw how the industralist was making for United States, but public didn't realy know about it, but the goverment is always about the money.

26. How did the emergence of beliefs in social Darwinism and / or socialism reflect the new challenges facing American society in the late 1800's? Socialism meant not just individuals should have nations wealth. Most Americans opposed socialism. The wealthy thought threathened there fortunes. Social darwism said goverment should interfere as little as possible. If those would goverment would stay out of affairs with business who succeeud and become rich.

27. What challenges did labor unions have to overcome in order to achieve their main goals? Labor unions faced the panic and depression of 1837. Unions in general suffered a steep decline in membership as a result in poor economy. Also measure took by employors to stop unions.