Today we were given our chapter we are going to present on. Then we split our chapter in our group and got our own section. Our chapter is chapter 5, Moving West.
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
-Why
did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
-How did the US gov't deal
with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their
policies?
-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?
-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?
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
-What
did the Grangers or government do to regulate the
railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew
Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social
Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-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?
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.
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