Benson
AP U.S. History
Unit 6 Overview and Study Guide
The Gilded Age (1870-1900)
Required Reading:1. Amsco chapters 16, 17, 18 and 19
2. Selected primary sources in class
Assessments:Unit test on Friday, January 15th
AmscoChapter 16( Industrialization) Important Terms:
Factors that contributed to f large-scale industrial growthconsolidation of railroads
Andrew Carnegievertical integrationThe Gospel of Wealth (p. 571)
trustsJohn D. RockefellerStandard Oil
Sherman Anti-trust Actlack of anti-trust enforcementholding companies
Singersewing machineBell’s telephoneEdison’s lightbulb
Baldwin Locomotive Worksadvertising techniquesenvironmental costs
slow Southern developmentareas of Southern growthhardships for laborers
Eastern European immigrantsworking class married womenHoratio Alger
National Labor UnionKnights of LaborUriah Stephens
Amer. Federation of LaborSamuel Gompersthe Great Railroad Strike
Haymarket Square riotHomestead Strikethe Pullman Strike
Amer. Railway UnionEugene V. DebsAdam Smith
The Wealth of Nationssocial Darwinism
Amsco Chapter 17 (The Last West) Important Terms:
effects of mining on peopling and the environmentForeign Miner’s Tax
Chinese Exclusion Actcattle ranchingJoseph McCoy
End of the open rangeHomestead Actenvironmental problems
Turner’s thesisreservation policyIndian Appropriation Act
Little Big HornNez PerceSioux War/Sitting Bull
Battle of Wounded KneeHelen Hunt JacksonCentury of Dishonor
assimilationDawes Severalty Actconservation
preservationNational ParksForest Reserve Act
John MuirSierra ClubSears catalog
Problems for farmersthe GrangeOliver Kelly
Interstate Commerce ActWabash v. IllinoisOcala Platform
The Populist movement
Amsco Chapter 18(Immigration and Urbanization) Important Terms:
push & pull factorssources of immigration1882 restrictions
vetoed literacy testAmerican Protective Assoc.west to east migration
urban transportationsuspension bridgessuburbs
steel skyscrapersethnic ghettostenements
spread of diseaseFrederick Olmsteadmunicipal infrastructure
political machinesparty bossesTammany Hall (Boss Tweed)
settlement housesJane Addams/Hull Housethe Social Gospel
Walter Rauschenbuschthe Salvation ArmyChristian Science
increased divorcedecreased family sizeNAWSA
suffrage in WyomingWCTUCarry A. Nation
public high schoolsland grant collegesRealism
Mark TwainStephen CraneTheodore Dreiser
Thomas EakinJames WhistlerGeorge Bellows
Ashcan SchoolLouis SullivanFrank Lloyd Wright
Joseph PulitzerWilliam R. Hearstvaudeville
the circusboxingprofessional baseball
Dynamic SociologyHenry GeorgeProgress and Poverty
Edward BellamyLooking BackwardLester Frank Ward
AmscoChapter 19(Politics of the Gilded Age) Important Terms:
Gilded Agelimited governmentpopular campaigning
Party patronagehalfbreedsstalwarts
Garfield’s assassinationChester ArthurPendleton Civil Service Act
Grover ClevelandInterstate Commerce Actthe gold standard
soft vs. hard money“the crime of ‘74”Bland-Allison Act
tariff issueBenjamin HarrisonThe McKinley tariff
Sherman Antitrust Actagrarian discontentFarmers Alliance
The Populist PartyOmaha platformPanic of 1893
J.P. MorganCoxey’s Army the election of 1896
William Jennings BryanCross of Gold speechWilliam McKinley
“whistle stop” (train) vs. “front-porch” campaigngold discoveries in Alaska
Dingley Tariff
In class terms
How the Other Half Lives
Thomas Nast (cartoonist)
William James (pragmatism)