Posted by 7Jessica on September 30, 2011 at 2:30pm
Assigned blog due sunday, your choise. Have 15 more posts by sunday too. for an assigned blog im thinking of doing a famous cowboy.5.2Homested act:-any person got 160 acres free-weather,nativea americans,animals was a mojor hardace for the prarie people-lots of dept for farmers,railroads5.3Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?Mary Elizibeth was a big help to the populists group, farmers tryed to buy more land to get more crops to get more money(didnt work too well)soo i dont know where 6.1or 6.2 went...but ill find it!Ch. 6.3:-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.he was born in scotland in 1838worked at Pennslyvania Railroad CompanySarted Carnegie Steel-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.born1839established Standard Oil Companynicknamed Robber Baronhe would gain controll and then spike the priceshe gave away over 500 million dollars!he created a medical institute that gound a cure for Yellow Fever-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?the theory that success and failure in business was governed by natural law and no one had the right to intervene-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).verticle-when a business buys out its suppliers in order to contrill the raw materials and railroadshorizontal-when companies produce similar products merge or get bought out by other companiestrusts-when participants turn thier stock overr to a group of trustees-- people who ran the separate companies as one large corporation.-How did the government try to regulate business?they made the sherman antitrust act-made ti illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade between states or with other countries-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.alot of the labor unions failed, but they somewhat got what they wanted..Ch. 7.1:-Why did immigrants come to the US?better life, escape defficult conditions(push,bad things in home country, and pull good apertunities in new place.) rising population,wernt many jobs,-Where did immigrants come from?Europe, italy, russia, hungary,austriaWhat problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?crowded ships, dirty conditions, illness, questioning ,ellis island-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?because of race,chinese exclusion actCh. 7.2Why 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. 7.3What 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?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?Ch. 8.1:-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?Ch. 8.2:-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?Ch. 8.3:-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.Ch. 8.4:-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.Ch. 9.1-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?-What did the 17th Amendment do?Ch. 9.2-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.Ch. 9.3-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.-Square Deal-Breaking up strikes-Regulating railroads-Regulating food and drugs-Conservation-Civil RightsCh.9.4-Describe the major accomplishments and problems of William Howard Taft's presidency-Payne-Aldrich Tariff-Land disputes-Breaking up trusts-You will have to look elsewhere for some other accomplishments as the book is limited-Break-up of the Republican Party-Describe the outcome of the 1912 Presidential Election.Ch. 9.5-Describe the major accomplishments/issues of Woodrow as President.-Breaking up trusts-Underwood Tariff-16th Amendment-Federal Reserve System-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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