1st 9 weeks Common Assessment Concept ReviewName______

Use the power point on my website to answer the following questions. You will be turning this assignment in after your DCA Thursday.

  1. What are the five values de Tocqueville identified as keys to America’s success as a constitutional republic?

Egalitarianism, Liberty, Individualism, Populism, Laissez faire

  1. How was the anti-trust legislation of the Progressive Era a response to the values of laissez-faire and individualism?

The government responded to a need to balance the opportunity for businesses to operate with the protection of individual rights.

  1. Why did the Homestead Act encourage people to move to the Great Plains?

The US needed to show it could control the territory it claimed

  1. How did the railroad impact business and Native Americans?

Business-established a national market

Native Americans-were moved off their lands

  1. What was the purpose of the Dawes Act? Explain how the editorial cartoon and drawing are illustrating the Dawes Act.

The purpose of the Dawes Act was to assimilate Native Americans into American culture.

  1. What is the most important legacy of the Populist movement?

The Populist movement set up the idea of giving a voice to groups whose needs were not being met by the two main political parties.

  1. How did electricity change life in America?

Makes longer work days possible; electrified mass transit

  1. How does industrialization lead to urbanization?

Industry creates jobs, people move to the jobs, people make cities

  1. What were some of the causes of urbanization?

Better farm equipment, increased immigration, migration of African Americans

  1. What issues develop as a result of urbanization?

Overcrowding; housing shortages, diseases, crime, tenement housing

  1. Define vertical integration. Explain how vertical integration helped Carnegie to create a monopoly/trust.

System of taking control of all the steps of a product’s manufacture

  1. Define horizontal integration. Explain how horizontal integration helped Rockefeller to create a monopoly/trust.

System of consolidating many firms in the same business

  1. How were Carnegie’s and Rockefeller’s treatment of their workers and their philanthropic activities conflicting?

Carnegie and Rockefeller treated their workers very badly, yet gave away millions of dollars for libraries, universities, and other “charity” causes

  1. How was the Sherman Anti-Trust Act a “first”?

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act was the first attempt by government to regulate big business and unfair business practices. It went against the idea of laissez-faire economics.

  1. Explain the difference between push and pull factors.

Push factors are those which cause people to move away from an area or country.

Pull factors are those reasons people move to an area or country.

  1. Explain nativism. What were the reasons for nativism?

Nativism is the idea that people who have lived in a country longer are better than the newcomers.

Reasons: crime, “stealing” of jobs, diseases

  1. What were the benefits to political machines? What were the drawbacks?

+ People who live in certain areas get jobs and public services

-Someone controls your vote, payoffs cause corruption of city officials

  1. What were the purposes of initiative, recall, referendum, 17th amendment, secret ballot?

To make government more responsive to the people

  1. How did muckrakers influence American society?

Showed people the “dirty underbelly” of American society so that there would be calls for reform

  1. List the most important muckrakers, their works, and the area they targeted.

Jacob Riis-How the Other Half Lives; urban poor

Upton Sinclair-The Jungle; meat packing industry

  1. How did women go about getting the right to vote, or suffrage?

Pushing for a constitutional amendment with protests, demonstrations; lobbying

Susan B. Anthony important leader in movement

19th Amendment

  1. How did reformers go about protecting the natural environment in the Progressive Age?

Setting up the National Park System

  1. How did the Federal Reserve Act work to reform the banking industry?

Set up a system which allowed a government agency to regulate the money supply by setting interest rates for loans

  1. Identify:
  1. 16th Amendment-income tax
  2. 17th Amendment-direct election of US Senators
  3. 18th Amendment-prohibition; banned sale and use of alcohol
  4. 19th Amendment-women’s suffrage
  1. Identify the Progressive Presidents and their major accomplishments.

Theodore Roosevelt-park system

William Howard Taft-trust buster

Woodrow Wilson-Federal Reserve System

  1. What was the purpose of the Bull Moose Party?

To serve as an outlet for supporters of Theodore Roosevelt

Fun Fact: the Klondike Gold Rush encouraged the settlement of Alaska