9.17.13

gonna add things that aren't in my blog

note-tastic

Ch. 5.1:

-Describe Native American culture.

-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?

  • Homestead act
  • Farming


-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?

  • We kept taking their land
  • We started a war against them.
    • Custer's Last Stand
    • Battle of Wounded Knee
  • People tricked Native Americans out of their land.


-Describe a cowboy's life.


Ch. 5.2:

-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?

-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?

-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?

Ch. 5.3:

-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?

-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?


Ch. 6.1:

-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?

  • bessemer process - that process that carnegie bought
  • railroads


-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?


Ch. 6.2:

-What impact did railroads have on the US?

  • started time zones

-Why were many people upset with the railroads?

-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?

  • fought loneliness
  • interstate commerce act
    • set up interstate commerce commision
    • failed to help farmers at first
    • eventually under roosevelt started enforcing



Ch. 6.3:

-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.

  • they were philanthropists


-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.

  • they were philanthropists



-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?

  • survival of the fittest


-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).

-How did the government try to regulate business?

-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?

Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.


Ch. 7.1:

Why did immigrants come to the US?

Where did immigrants come from?

What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?

Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?


Ch. 7.2

Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?

What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?

What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?


Ch. 7.3

What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?

Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.

What caused all this corruption in government?

money and dishonest people

also lack of laws to regulate the govt.

spoils system which allows whoever wins to put whoever they want in the office

What laws came about to reform government?

penelton civil service act - made people take tests before they got govt. jobs

8.3

Poll taxes

Literacy test

jim crow laws - legally segregated

Plessy v. Ferguson established segregation

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