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Study Questions Howard Zinn Chapters 13-15 Chapter 13 Why is the suffrage movement included in a chapter called “The Socialist Challenge”? Emma Goldman argued that “the cause of the Spanish-American war was the price of sugar…..” How could that be? In a letter to the New York Herald in 1900 characterizing the U.S. government’s conduct of the Spanish-American war, Mark Twain refers to the United States as “Christendom.” Why? Why does he refer to battles as “pirate raids”? How might the war have had the effect of filling America’s “soul full of meanness”? What was the topic of Upton Sinclair’s 1906 novel, The Jungle? What might have accounted for its popularity? For Jack London, what details/evidence/facts may have led him to the conclusion that the “capitalist class has mismanaged…criminally and selfishly mismanaged”? Of the following, who cannot be considered a muckraker? Explain your rejections as well as your choice. Ida Tarbell Lincoln Steffens Henry Frick Upton Sinclair Are there other muckrakers whom Zinn mentions who are not in the list above? Explain. How was Taylorism a response to the concerns of big business (concerns raised by the financial collapse of 1907)? Which of the following was not a year that marked the beginning of an economic collapse: 1819, 1857, 1873, 1907, 1837, 1861, 1893, 1929 9. What would be the best word to describe the economic cycle of ups and downs in American history? Spasmodic? Cyclical? Sporadic? Fitful? Predictable? Why did Clara Lemlich call for a general strike? Why was it particularly impressive that the shirtwaist workers went on strike at the time that they did? How did working-class culture sustain strikers? Why did 146 Triangle Shirtwaist Company workers die in the fire of 1911? What reasons/factors might explain the following disparities: In 1910, women were 20 percent of the labor force but 1 percent of union members. In 1910, black workers made 33 percent of the earnings of white workers/ Why did