Unit Overview: Westward Expansion, Industrialization & Imperialism

Chapters 17, 18, 19, & 20

These are some of the people, places and things you need to know by the end of the unit. Do not rely solely on the list below.

The West
Lakota Sioux
Red Cloud
Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)
Great Plains
The Ghost Dance movement
Chief Joseph and Nez Perce
Mexican migration
Union Pacific railroad
Buffalo soldiers
Asian migration
Central Pacific Railroad
Sioux War of 1876
Anti-Chinese sentiment
Transcontinental railroad (Promontory Point, Utah)
Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
John Deere plow
General George Custer
John Muir and the Sierra Club
Cyrus McCormick reaper
Indian territories in OK and Dakotas
Barbed wire (Joseph Glidden)
Massacre at Sand Creek (1864)
A Century of Dishonor – Helen Hunt Jackson
Comstock Lode in Nevada (1859)
Homestead Act (1862)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Frederick Jackson Turner “The Closing of the American Frontier”
Capital and Labor
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
J. P. Morgan
corporations
The “New South”
Pinkerton Detective Agency
Bessemer process
George M.. Pullman
time zones
mass production
Pullman Strike (1894)
George Westinghouse / Eugene V. Debs
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Scientific management
Socialist Party of America
refrigerated railroad cars
Knights of Labor
Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies
Terence Powderly
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
Andrew Carnegie
Samuel Gompers
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
U.S. Steel
American Federation of Labor
Wabash Case (1886)
Gospel of Wealth
Haymarket Riots (1886)
U.S. v. E. C. Knight Co. (1895)
John D. Rockefeller
yellow-dog contracts
In re Debs (1895)
Standard Oil
Homestead Steel Strike (1892)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Politics, Rise of the City
The Gilded Age by Mark Twain
Blaine amendments
Omaha Platform
Rutherford B. Hayes
Stalwarts
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
James A. Garfield
Halfbreeds
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Chester A. Arthur
James G. Blaine
Coxey’s Army
Grover Cleveland
Mugwumps
McKinley Tariff (1890)
Benjamin Harrison
Panic of 1893
machine politics
William Jennings Bryan
Pendleton Act (1883)
Greenback – Labor Party
“Cross of gold” speech
Civil Service Commission Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU / Mark Hanna
laissez-faire economics
Frances Willard
William McKinley
Horatio Alger
Grange movement
Front porch campaign
Roscoe Conkling
Farmers’ Alliances
Election of 1896
Social Darwinism
Populist Party
Tammany Hall
patronage system
James B. Weaver
William “Boss” Tweed
Blue laws
Thomas Nast
An Emerging World Power, 1877 – 1914
Commodore George Dewey
Secretaries of State: William H. Seward, Elihu Root, John Hay
Battle of Manila Bay
Seward’s Folly
Battle of San Juan Hill
Josiah Strong, Our Country
Annexation of Hawaii
Pan-Americanism
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Queen Liliuokalani
Platt Amendment
Cleveland and Hawaii
Philippines, Guam, Puerto Rico, Guantanamo Bay
Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Seapower upon History (1890)
Jingoism
“White Man’s Burden”
Insular cases (1901)
Yellow journalism
William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer
Anti-Imperialist League
Philippine insurrection
Maine
de Lome letter
Teller Amendment
Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Riders

The West

The factors that affected the life, culture, and economics of western Indian tribes in the late nineteenth century and the varying responses of the Indians to the pressures they faced

The characteristics of the various frontier societies (mineral, timber, farming and ranch frontiers.) What brought those frontiers to a close?

The role of women and non-whites in frontier society

The responses of Plains settlers to the living conditions and challenges they encountered, and the impact of their experiences on their lives

The impact of the closing of the frontier on American history

How the government contributed to the economic development of the West
The Gilded Age: Industry and Labor
The factors that led to acceleration of industrialization in the years following the Civil War and the effects of the rapid industrialization of the late 19th century on American politics, economics, and society
The factors that stimulated the spread of the railroads and the effect of the spread of the railroads on American history
Major industrialists and how they acquired power and wealth; is it correct to call them “Robber Barons” or “Captains of Industry?”
Changes in the nature of work, in working conditions, and in the workplace itself, and the impact of these changes on American workers
The rise of unionism in the late 19th century, and the reaction of employers, the government, and the public to manifestations of worker discontent; the success of the various labor movements of the era
The impact of new technology on American society
The role of immigrants, women, and blacks in industry and the labor movement
Economic and social changes in the South in this period
Politics in the Gilded Age
The characteristics of American politics at the national and state levels during the Gilded Age
The characteristics of American presidents during the Gilded Age and how each one carried out the duties of his office
How city bosses maintained their control of politics in this period
The reasons for splits in the Republican Party in this period and the rise of third parties in the 1870s and 1880s and how these factions and third parties fared in American politics
The oppression of southern blacks in this period and the different responses from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
The various forces affecting farmers during the late 19th century; the development of rural activism from the Grange through the Populist Party; the political, economic, and social programs of the Populists
The issues in the election of 1896 and the political and economic significance of the outcome of that election
The different economic philosophies of the period: laissez-faire, social Darwinism, scientific management, and Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
Urbanization
Factors influencing the increasing urbanization in the Gilded Age and the effect on American society of this growth in cities
Classes and religion in American society
The conditions for immigrants as they arrived in America and how Americans reacted to the increasing numbers of immigrants