California State standards that this research hits upon are as follows:
11.2 Students analyze the relationship among the rise of industrialization,
large-scale rural-to-urban migration, and massive immigration from
Southern and Eastern Europe.
11.2.1 Know the effects of industrialization on living and working conditions,
including the portrayal of working conditions and food safety in Upton
Sinclair's The Jungle.
11.2.5 Discuss corporate mergers that produced trusts and cartels and the
economic and political policies of industrial leaders.
11.2.6 Trace the economic development of the United States and its emergence
as a major industrial power, including its gains from trade and the
advantages of its physical geography.
