What do the primary sources in Chapter 16 reveal about the conflict between capital and labor during the Gilded Age? Identify three reasons for industrial workers and farmers’ discontent or frustration. Use the editorial cartoon ‘The Tournament of Today’ (1883) and at least two of the three documents listed below.
Media: ‘The Tournament of Today — A Set-To Between Labor and Monopoloy’ (1883)
Documents: Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth (June 1889) Grover Cleveland’s Veto of the Texas Seed Bill (February 16, 1887) The ‘Omaha Platform’ of the People’s Party (1892)