The chapter "robber barons and rebels" begins by immediately engaging the audience:

in the year 1877, the signals were given for the rest of the century: the black would be put back; the strikes of white workers would not be tolerated; the industrial and political elites of north and south would take hold of the country and organize the greatest march of economic growth in human history. (254)

with this sentence, the author sums up the issues that dominated the end of the nineteenth century and sets up the reader for a detailed look at this complicated part of us history.

in order to correctly incorporate the evidence, what should be added to the passage?
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