Andrew Carnegie is what I'm doing for my assigned blog
Ch. 5.1: -Describe Native American culture. settled in small villages, lived near Lower River, hunted and planted crops, hunted and gathered food, Western tribes were nomadic
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? because the plains were unsettled so they wanted to go and claim the land out there
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies? passed an act that gave the Native Americans land for their tribes, all the tribes were to live on the same land, but then the government changed and gave each tribe their own areas in different parts
-Describe a cowboy's life. -learned everything from the vaqueros, they were the first to wear spurs and leathers, worked 10-14 hours a day on a ranch, 14 or more hours on a trail, some were as young as 15
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? so that people would want to go out west to settle the land. and the railroads helped so that people could get out there
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? locust plagues, tornadoes, blizzards, droughts, Native Americans, animals, outlaws
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? lots of problems with the railroad companies, bad crops, in debt
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in? they wanted to help farmers
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's? lots of resources, government supported business, cheap labor, oil, development of the Bessemer Process
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives? electricity, typewriter, telephone
Thomas Edison didn't invent the light bulb, he perfected it
**laissez faire - let it be. let business do what they want to do.
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US? it was so much quicker to transport people and goods across the country, and it helped settle the west
-Why were many people upset with the railroads? they were making it cost more for taxes and stuff
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. Born november 25, 1835; came to America at age 12 from Scotland; six years after coming to america he became a secretary for the local superintendent for the Pennsylvania Railroad; rewarded by his boss, Thomas Scott, to buy a stock; left the railroad company in 1865; after he left the railroad, he bought a steel mill which manufactured more steel than all British steel mills in Britain; he sold his steel business in 1901 and started working on his management work; he also set up libraries, public institutions, and a college; his business was known as Carnegie Steel; he sold his company to John P. Morgan; his company was in Pittsburg; died April 11 in 1911;
1. Find ways to make better products cheaper
2. He brought in people with talents and offering them stock. He also encouraged his assistants to be competitive
3. Vertical integration - a process in which he bought out his suppliers in order to control the system
4. Horizontal integration - companies producing similar products merge
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller. He was attracted to the oil business when oil was found in Titusville Pennsylvania; John treated everybody equally, he wanted the future good will of his partners and employees; he drove other companies out of business
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business? - started by charles Darwin; means that the states who have the fittest will strive in the society; those who were poor were automatically weak and lazy; people who believed in Darwinism thought they were superior; "Survival of the fittest" little businesses that are smaller and weaker wouldn't do as well as bigger businesses; either rich or poor, not really an inbetween; lazy and uneducated would be chosen to be in poverty' people of Darwinism thought that poor people would ruin society; Carnegie believed the rich should just become richer; certain businesses started to strive; Carnegie didn't give things to the poor, he believed that was favoring them; it was also bad for other business because they didn't have good workers; caused big businesses to overtake small businesses
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts). when businesses try and buy out other businesses; a merger is when one corporation bought out the stock of another to become one; when this happens a monopoly could be formed by setting up a corporation that did nothing but buy the stock out of other countries
-How did the government try to regulate business?
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose? a union of workers working together to get better pay; they would work together to try and get more money; some women worked for doubled wages; the labor unions were formed in the year 1866 by William Syvis who was an iron worker;
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Ch. 7.1:
Why did immigrants come to the US? escape things such as famine, land shortages, religious or political persecutions
Where did immigrants come from? western and northern Europe, Italy, Austria-Hungary, and Russia
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here? everyone over here was really racist, segregation, had to go through inspections at Ellis Island and Angel Island ( on the trip over, the boats that they took were really gross cause they had to share bathrooms with lots of other people, and they slept in bug infested beds
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions? people didnt like immigrants cause they were different, and too many would come in at once, and they would take Americans jobs; put restrictions on jobs, places they could go, schools
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