(HC)The question is based on the accompanying documents. You…

(HC)The questiоn is bаsed оn the аccоmpаnying documents. You are advised to spend 15 minutes planning and 40 minutes writing your answer.In your response, you should do the following. State a relevant thesis that directly addresses all parts of the question. Support the thesis or a relevant argument with evidence from all, or all but one, of the documents. Support the thesis or a relevant argument by accounting for historical complexity, relating diverse historical evidence in a cohesive way. Focus your analysis of each document on at least one of the following: author's point of view, author's purpose, audience, and/or historical context. Support your argument with analysis of historical examples outside the documents. Connect historical phenomena relevant to your argument to broader events or processes. Synthesize the elements above into a persuasive essay. Evaluate the extent to which large corporations impacted economic and social policies of the United States in the period from 1870 to 1900.Document 1Source: Interstate Commerce Act, February 4, 1887All charges made for any service rendered or to be rendered in the transportation of passengers or property as aforesaid, or in connection therewith, or for the receiving, delivering, storage, or handling of such property, shall be reasonable and just; and every unjust and unreasonable charge for such service is prohibited and declared to be unlawful.Document 2Source: Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," North American Review, June 1889.This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of Wealth: First, to set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent upon him; and after doing so to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgment, is best calculated to produce the most beneficial results for the community—the man of wealth thus becoming the mere agent and trustee for his poorer brethren, bringing to their service his superior wisdom, experience, and ability to administer, doing for them better than they would or could do for themselves.Document 3Source: "The Bosses of the Senate," Puck, 1889© Bridgeman Art Library / Universal Images Group / Image Quest 2015 Document 4Source: "People's Party Platform," 1892.[W]e seek to restore the government of the Republic to the hands of "the plain people," with which class it originated...Our country finds itself confronted by conditions for which there is no precedent in the history of the world;...We pledge ourselves that if given power we will labor to correct these evils by wise and reasonable legislation, in accordance with the terms of our platform. We believe that the power of government—in other words, of the people—should be expanded (as in the case of the postal service) as rapidly and as far as the good sense of an intelligent people and the teaching of experience shall justify, to the end that oppression, injustice, and poverty shall eventually cease in the land. Document 5Source: Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900[Department stores] were along the line of the most effective retail organization, with hundreds of stores coordinated into one and laid out upon the most imposing and economic basis. They were handsome, bustling, successful affairs, with a host of clerks and a swarm of patrons. Carrie passed along the busy aisles, much affected by the remarkable displays of trinkets, dress goods, stationery, and jewelry. Each separate counter was a showplace of dazzling interest and attraction. She could not help feeling the claim of each trinket and valuable upon her personally. Document 6Source: President William McKinley Speech in Buffalo, New York, Sep 5, 1901Business life, whether among ourselves or with other people, is ever a sharp struggle for success. It will be none the less so in the future. Without competition we would be clinging to the clumsy antiquated processes of farming and manufacture and the methods of business of long ago, and the twentieth would be no further advanced than the eighteenth century. But though commercial competitors we are, commercial enemies we must not be...The period of exclusiveness is past. The expansion of our trade and commerce is the pressing problem. Commercial wars are unprofitable. A policy of good will and friendly trade relations will prevent reprisals. Reciprocity treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the times, measures of retaliation are not. If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed, for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, why should they not be employed to extend and promote our markets abroad? Document 7Source: Typewriting Department, National Cash Register, Dayton, Ohio, 1902Library of Congress [LC-DIG-det-4a20574]