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Answer the following questions as you view each of the presentations of the Core Content and read the notes from Module 8! Click below each question to type your response. Please have all of your answers in either blue or red color. This portion of Module 8 is worth 60 points!

VUS.8a; The Emergence of Modern American

  1. When was this period of great change from agriculture to manufacturing (industrialization)?
  1. What was the key to allowing people to live further out in the Great Plains?
  1. Why was it that the end of the Civil War prompted many to move out west to try farming?
  1. What was the “long drive”?
  1. What were some of the dangers that the American Cowboy faced?
  1. What was the Homestead Act?
  1. How did the Homestead Act affect western settlement?
  1. Why were Southerners and the newly freed slaves the most logical people to take advantage of the Homestead Act?
  1. What new inventions made the prairies of the Great Plains capable of supporting agriculture?
  1. Why could it be said that we are a nation of immigrants?
  1. What are the differences between the “Old Immigrants” and the “New Immigrants”?
  1. Why were these New Immigrants coming to America?
  1. What were some of the various contributions made by these new people?
  1. Why is the Statue of Liberty so important to these immigrants and their future generations?
  1. What happened at Ellis Island?
  1. What is assimilation?
  1. Explain the concept of the “American Melting Pot”:
  1. Why would these immigrants have settled in their own ethnic enclaves?
  1. What were some of the obstacles these immigrants faced in their new country?
  1. What were the purposes of the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1881 and the Immigration Restriction Act of 1920?
  1. What is urbanization?
  1. What factors contributed to urbanization of America?
  1. Describe some of the problems faced by the people in the cities:
  1. What part of government is responsible for allowing states to enter the union?

VUS.8b; Industrialization

  1. What is industrialization?
  1. When was the great period of American Industrialization?
  1. What is the difference between an invention and an innovation?
  1. How did corporations work? Why would this help encourage large businesses?
  1. What is “limited liability”?
  1. Explain what the Bessemer Process does and why would it be essential during this period of urbanization and industrialization?
  1. What were the key inventions of Thomas Edison? How did these inventions change the way Americans worked and lived?
  1. Who invented the telephone? What new opportunities did this create for women in the workforce?
  1. What did the Wright Brothers invent? When was the first flight?
  1. What was the key innovation of Henry Ford?
  1. What was Ford’s product?
  1. How did the automobile help encourage the growth of other industries?
  1. Identify the primary industry of each of these capitalist leaders and explain how they came to dominate the field:

Andrew Carnegie:

J.P. Morgan:

John D. Rockefeller:

Cornelius Vanderbilt:

  1. Why would some believe these men to be considered “Robber Barons”?
  1. What is the difference between horizontal integration and vertical integration?
  1. What were the key factors that contributed to America’s ability to become an industrial giant during this period?
  1. Why would this be considered a time of contradictions for America?

VUS.8c; The Jim Crow Era – Prejudice and Discrimination

  1. What does “antebellum” refer to?
  1. Who was the “real Jim Crow”?
  1. What does the Jim Crow Era refer to?
  1. What were the “Black Codes”?
  1. What is discrimination?
  1. What is segregation?
  1. What were the Jim Crow Laws?
  1. What methods were used to attempt to restore the old social order?
  1. Why was lynching not regularly enforced as a crime?
  1. What did the court rule in the case Plessy v. Ferguson?
  1. What is meant by the phrase “separate but equal”?
  1. Which of the Civil War amendments did this circumvent?
  1. What was the Great Migration?
  1. Did these migrants find what they were looking for?
  1. Who was Ida B. Wells and what was her “cause”?
  1. Why was she not successful?
  1. How did Booker T. Washington believe African-Americans should attack the problem of prejudice and discrimination?
  1. How did W.E.B. DuBois believe African-Americans should attack the problem of prejudice and discrimination?
  1. What is the NAACP?