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Lesson Objectives:Upon completion of this lesson, students should be able to: weigh the effects of industrialization and immigration after 1850 identify the political conflicts of the 1890sIdentifications:Read Digital History (texbook tab): Gilded Age, “Industrialization and the Working Class,” “The Huddled Masses,” and “The Political Crisis of the 1890s,” http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtID=2 (Links to an external site.)In preparation for the midterm exam, define:Unionization, the Great Railroad Strike, New Immigrants, the Chinese Exclusion Act, PopulismEssay Question:Read Emma Goldman, “Anarchism: What It Really Stands For,” http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm (Links to an external site.)Describe Goldman’s critiques of religion, property, and government. Would her ideas be appealing and empowering to laborers in the United States during the Gilded Age? Why or why not?4 Citation needed