UNIT 3 EXAM: Chapters 5-8 - Study Guide
CHANGES ON THE WESTERN FRONTIER
The Great Plains Indians
Treaty of Fort Laramie
Sitting Bull & General Custer
Lakota/Sioux Indians
Dawes Act – Assimilation
Wounded Knee
Cowboys & Cattle drives
Homestead Act
“exodusters”
soddy
Morrill Act
Grange - Oliver Hudson Kelley
Farmers’ Alliance
A NEW INDUSTRIAL AGE
Transcontinental Railroad
Bessemer Process
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Trusts, Monopolies, & Holding Co.s
Vertical and Horizontal Integration
Andrew Carnegie – US Steel
John D. Rockefeller – Standard Oil
J.P. Morgan
Social Darwinism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Rise of the Labor Movement
1892 Homestead Strike
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Great Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Affair
Pullman Strike
Eugene Debs
IMMIGRANTS AND URBANIZATION
Ellis and Angel Island
Chinese Exclusion Actof 1882
Nativists
“Gentleman’s Agreement”
Americanization Movement
Social Gospel Movement
Settlement Houses
Hull House
Jane Addams
Urbanization
Tenement Houses
Political Machines
Graft & corruption
Boss Tweed-Tammany Hall
Thomas Nast cartoons
patronage
Pendleton Service Act
James Garfield Assassination
Populists – People’s Party
Bimetallism “free silver”
Gold Standard
Panic of 1893
William Jennings Bryan
William McKinley
LIFE AT THE TURN OF THE 20TH CENTURY & SEGREGATION
Louis Sullivan & Daniel Burnham
Frederick Law Olmstead
Orville & Wilber Wright
George Eastman
Skyscraper technology
Plessy v. Ferguson
“Separate but equal”
Jim Crow Laws
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
W.E.B. DuBois
Niagara Movement
Rise of public education
Ida B. Wells
Segregation & Jim Crow Laws
Poll Tax
Debt Peonage
Grandfather Clause
Literacy Tests
UNIT 3 EXAM: Chapters 5-8 - Study Guide
WRITING SECTION:
- What caused people to migrate west into the Great Plains after the Civil War and describe the culture clashes that resulted in the region?
- What were the causes and effects of industrialization on American society?
- Should the leaders of industry like John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie be considered as heroes or as villains (“Robber Barons”) in American history? Explain.
- What caused so many immigrants to migrate to America and what were the specific problems that they faced once they arrived?
- How did laws and organizations discriminate against African-Americans in the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
- What problems faced farmers in this era and how did they respond and organize politically?
- What were the causes and effects of rapid urbanization in this era including the rise of political machines?