UNIT 2 EXAM Chapters 5-8

UNIT 2 EXAM Chapters 5-8

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:

  1. What caused people to migrate west into the Great Plains after the Civil War and describe the culture clashes that resulted in the region?
  2. What were the causes and effects of industrialization on American society?
  3. 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.
  4. What caused so many immigrants to migrate to America and what were the specific problems that they faced once they arrived?
  5. How did laws and organizations discriminate against African-Americans in the South in the late 1800s and early 1900s?
  6. What problems faced farmers in this era and how did they respond and organize politically?
  7. What were the causes and effects of rapid urbanization in this era including the rise of political machines?