Ch. 5.1:-Describe Native American culture.Nomadic, received guns and horses from europeans, many accidental trespassing between native american lands,-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?Gold, land.-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?They killed native americans and forced them to agree to treaties, assimilation, took their land and moved them onto other land, waged war.-Describe a cowboy's life.Based from mexican traditions, herded cattle, only spent about 10-14 hours on the ranch itself, lived off the land whilst on the trail.Ch. 5.2:-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?Homestead Act gave each man 160 acres of land which was used to settle the plains (make farms). Railroads brought the people out into the plains.-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?Weather, native american attacks.-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?Hard soil, debt, railroad companies.Ch. 5.3:-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?Land price increased because of railroads.-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?Mary Elizabeth - helped the populists, moved into other governmental issues.Believed in bimetallism.Ch. 6.1:-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?Discovery of wealth, business support by government, large urban population, laissez - fairre.-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?Steam engines (for oil drilling), Telephone, Barbed wire.Ch. 6.2:-What impact did railroads have on the US?The nation was connected by train. Time zones. Jobs.-Why were many people upset with the railroads?Railroads could determine any price they wanted because they had no competition.-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?Protected farmers and got rid of discrimination, States controlled the railroads, federal government overruled the state railroad control and put railroads under federal overviewCh. 6.3:-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.A young fellow who worked his way up to Privatre SEcretary at the Pennsylvania Railroad COmpanyIT left the Pennsylvania Railroad Company and started Carnegie Steel COmpanyBy 1899 they were fmanufacturing more steel than all of teh factories of GreaBritain.-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller. "Robber Baron"Establishee Standard Oil COmpanyJOined with competing companies in truse agreementsTrust-Participants in a trust turn their stock over to a group of trustees who run the companies as one large corporationA trust is a monopoly-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?According to Laissez Faire that the market place should not be regulatedSocial Darwinism and Business. THeory that success and failure in business was governed by natural law and no one had the right to invervene.-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).Vertical: when a business buys out its suppliers in order to control the raw material and railroadHorizontal: When companies producing similar products merge or get bought out by other companiesTrusts: when participants turn their stock over to a group of trustees people who ran the separate companies as one large corporation. In return, the companies were entitled to dividends on profits earned by the trust.-How did the government try to regulate business?Governmetns was concerned that expanding corporations would stifle free competitionSherman Antitrust Act- made it 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?To give rights to the workers and higher wages, work conditions, benefits.Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.THey did achieve their goals it just took them a long time to do that.They would mostly prevail on their first strike but everything would go downhill from there on out.Ch. 7.1:Why did immigrants come to the US?Choices made in regard to push and pull factors.Where did immigrants come from?Other countries... duh.What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?Poor transportation conditions. Going through an inspection at a immigration station. Restarting their life as a whole. Viewed as a threat to American way of life.Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?Chinese Exclusion Act, Chinese segregation.Ch. 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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