Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization

Study Guide/Guided Reading Questions

The Rise of Big Business
(text pgs 68-72)

1. How did the government contribute to the building of the transcontinental railroad?

1. What made American industrial growth of the late 1800s possible?

1. What revolutionized American communications in the late 1800s?

1. What did critics (people against) of powerful industrialists call men like Carnegie and Rockefeller?

1. What did the theory of Social Darwinism want government to do?

1. What was the goal of the Sherman Antitrust Act?

1. What did Andrew Carnegie believe that the success of wealthy industrialists did?

1. What caused the government to regulate businesses during the Gilded Age?

1. How did industrial growth affect the distribution of wealth in the U.S.?

1. Which workers did the American Federation of Labor organize?

1. How did the government respond to the Pullman Strike?

1. What practice of the railroads did the Interstate Commerce Act outlaw?

1. What were the things that the Republican Party favored in the late 1800s?

(text pgs 73-79 & pgs 100-101)

1. What are the reasons immigrants have traditionally come to America?

1. How did the pattern of European immigrants shift in 1890 or where did most of the second wave of European immigrants come from?

1. What was the port of entry for the majority of immigrants in the late 1800s? (what city?)

1. Why did immigrants support political machines?

1. What was one of the main reasons political machines gained power in the late 1800s?

1. What was the Prohibitionists and purity crusaders goal?

1. What attracted Asians to the U.S. in the late 1800s?

1. What drew many new immigrants to the West?

1. What is the largest immigrant group in America today?

1. What was the main objective of the “nativists”?

1. What contributed to the migration from farms to cities in the late 1800s?

1. What were the characterizations of most urban areas by the early 1900s?

1. What resulted from rapid urbanization?

1. What things contributed to the growth of the cities?

1. What general concepts could you say describe the post-Reconstruction era?

Also be familiar with the 15th Amendment, the way globalization has affected the American economy, the Family Medical Leave Act, the largest immigrant groups in US today, what happened to Native Americans as people moved West, and how economic globalization has exposed people to new ideas and technologies