Post Reconstruction Study Guide

Post Reconstruction Study Guide:

Industrialization, Immigration, Urbanization, Age of Jim Crow, Gilded Age

1. Explain why people moved west after Reconstruction. (Include specific reasons)
2. What was the Homestead Act of 1862 and how did it encourage westward migration?
3. Who were the Exodusters?
4. Explain how the transcontinental railroad impacted westward migration and what made it possible to complete.
5. Explain how the Bessemer Steel process impacted steel production, and how the increase in steel production affected America.
6. List who invented each of the following and how they impacted America: Light Bulb, Telephone, Airplane, Assembly Line
7. Who was Andrew Carnegie and why was he important?
8. Who was J.P. Morgan and why was he important?
9. Who was John Rockefeller and why was he important?
10. Who was Cornelius Vanderbilt and why was he important?
11. Explain why cities developed after Reconstruction. What factors encouraged their growth? What cities developed?
12. How did immigration change in 1871?
13. Where did most immigrants enter America through? (include both the East and West coast)
14. Describe what life was like for immigrants in America.
15. Describe what life was like in the cities in the late 1800s. Explain who exposed these conditions.
16. Who was Jim Crow and what did he symbolize?
17. What was the purpose of the Jim Crow laws in the South?
18. Describe the argument of Plessey in Plessey v. Ferguson. What was the overall result of the case?
19. Explain the impacts of Ida B. Wells, WEB DuBois, and Booker T. Washington.
20. Describe why the Gilded Age was called the Gilded Age. Was this an accurate name for the time? Why or why not?
21. What issues led the Progressive to Develop?
22. What improvements came out of the Progressive Era? (Include local and state governments, elections, child labor, women’s suffrage, working conditions, antitrust laws, labor unions)
23. List and describe who the presidents of the Gilded Age were and what they accomplished.
24. List and describe who the presidents of the Progressive Era were and what they accomplished.
25. Describe the Settlement House movement. Who was most responsible for them? Why were they important?
26. Explain the “Gospel of Wealth”- who wrote it and what was it’s message?
27. Describe why and where the Farmers Alliance and the Grange developed. What were their platforms?
28. What was the platform of the Populists? Why did they develop?
29. List and describe some of the anti-trust laws, anti-corruption laws and immigration/native American laws that were written during the Gilded Age and Progressive era.
30. Who were muckrakers and why were they important?
31. Describe what Political Machines were, why they were important and what the most famous one was.
32. Summarize the “Social Darwinist” theory.
33. Describe the Progressive Era.
34. List and describe the 16th, 17th and 18th amendments.

Possible Essay Topics

1. Analyze the impact of technological innovations on the lives of TWO of the following groups. Confine your answer to the period 1865–1920.

Factory workers

Middle-class urban residents

Midwestern farmers

1. Analyze the roles that women played in Progressive Era reforms from the 1880s through 1920. Focus your essay on TWO of the following.

Politics

Social conditions

Labor and working conditions

1. Analyze the effectiveness of Progressive Era reformers in addressing problems of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In your answer, focus on reform efforts in TWO of the following areas.

State and federal government

The workplace

Living conditions in cities

1. Explain how TWO of the following individuals responded to the economic and social problems created by industrialization during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Jane Addams

Andrew Carnegie

Samuel Gompers

Upton Sinclair