Today is presentation day.
These are Key Point for each Chapter
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
native Americans, were the first settlers here, they hunted buffalo and got used them for everything. Everything was an important to them and praised a lot of stuff.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
The moved west for more food, and land for a place to live. Homestead act. cattle ranching, mining, farming, gold rush, Oregon trail.
-custers last stand and wounded knee battle
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
we constantly took their land.
Made them be in the great plains and put in reservations- dawes act: putting the native americans in reservations and give the other land to americans. it was not sussefull.
stampedes, Texas to Kansas, open range, long drive.
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. steel rich people drove people out of business formed monopolies.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller. oil rich people drove people out of business formed monopolies.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).lowered prices, got people out of business, then raised their prices.
-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? religious, land, jobs,
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?
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Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
Immigrants.
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population?
transportation, water, sanitation.
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities?
made a settlement houses - where immigrants came in for a better place to live.
Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city?
it is not a machine, it is an organization of people trying to run the government with the towns.
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring.
will tweed was the third largest landowner and he was a major leader in the democratic party. He stole a lot of money from taxpayers. THOMAS NAXT- famous cartoon guy
What caused all this corruption in government?
What laws came about to reform government?
Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, James Garfield, Chester Arthur, Grover Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Grover Cleveland and William Mckinley were all presidents during the late 1800's. Were they a reform president or a status quo president? reform
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
literacy test- very few african americans could read and write, so you take this to know if you can vote
poll tax- if you cant pay the tax you cant vote
hrandfather clause- if your grandpa could vote you can vote
jim crow laws- separate thing from blacks and whites
Plessy vs. ferguson- SEPERATE BUT EQUAL
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
black things had to be the same as the white things.
test tomorrow over everything and other post!!! STUDY.
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