Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.
*Tribes: Osage Iowa Sioux Cheyenne
*hunters and gatherers
*horses were given to tribes in New Mexico in 1598
-wores broke out due to this
*kuved ub snakk extebded family groups
*young men trained to be hunters and warriors
*young women butchered game and prepared hides
*tribes controlled by nultiple people
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
looking for gold silver and other riches
manafest destiny saying they had the god given right to move west
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
reservation systems were their policies
-Describe a cowboy's life.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
- from 1850-1871 fedeal.
-1862 congress passed the homestead act
-offered 160 acres of land free to any citizen who head of household to establish a farm
-1862-1900 600,000 families took the chance
-thousands were exodusters, african americans who moved for the reconstruction south to kansas
-only 10% of land was actually settled by families the rest was taken advantage of by land speculaters who -later sold it for a ton of money when they got it for free
-Iowa & Minnesota, was enough but western needed more for farming
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
drought, lack of water, fires, blizzards, insects, locust plagues, floods, non fertle landwoman would work beside their husbands
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
not fertle land, farmers did bonanza farms; enormous farms of the same crop so they experienced drought
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
farming land became very scarce because farmers were in debt and the banks closed their farms
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe?
populism is the moement of people
demanded reforms to lift debt of farmers/other workers and a greater voice in government
what they wanted:
-increase in money supply
-graduated income tax(the more money you make the more taxes you pay)
-federal loan program(to give money to farmers to help them keep their farms)
-single terms for presidents(so they could get someone that wasn't for big businesses)
-secret ballot
-8 hour work day
-restriciton on immigration(immigrants would accept a lower pay and so they couldn't get raises because they would just trade them for an immigrant)
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.
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 Rights
Ch.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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