Today is HUMP DAY! We are also presenting today and here are the questions for the presenting
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture. One with the land, nomads, hunter and gathers, medicine men.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? more land to farm
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies? there was a policies that gave all of the great planes and then they said that they had to have reservation
-Describe a cowboy's life. they wanted to make a lot of money. they had to herd cattle and cross a lot of land in one day to keep the cattle full. in the winter of 1886 a lot of cowboys and cattle died. they worked 10 to 14 hours a day. they never had their on horse. most of the cowboys did cattle drives and it lasted up to 3 mouths or more. and they would drive them up though Texas to Kansas
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? the Homestead act was to make more people settle and they gave 160 acres to everybody in the family. the land settlement ended around 1900
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? extreme hardships and they had to make dugouts or soddie houses. women had more work that men when out there. they did have equipment putting in them into debt
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? Locust pleagus and crops dying and always in debt.
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? attacks from native american
-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?more immigrants more new inventions tons of natural resource cities were growing Laza far
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives? Incandescent light bulb the cotton gin
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US? Could move goods faster
-Why were many people upset with the railroads? they cost a lot of money to go a short distance
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads? they help farmers by maximizing the rate that farmers had to pay. in 1893 a lot of banks went bankrupted and in 1895 unemployment when up
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. Immagrant and he worked for the railroads and then he earned more money in stock then in pay. He used the money to make Carnegie Steel and he made more steel than great Britan
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller. he was the owner of Standard Oil Company and he join with competing companies in trust agreement
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business? it is survival of the fittest for companies
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts). if some one is making a product that no one else makes then you can control that product and make the price higher than what it is suppose to be
-How did the government try to regulate business? Sherman trust Act makes companies that have form a bigger company break up
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose? worker from related fields who have come together to protect and further their rights. they went on strike and and they achieved their goals
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Ch. 7.1:
Why did immigrants come to the US? they came to escape famine and some came because of religion persecution and some came just to farm
Where did immigrants come from? mostly from all of the world
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here? there were to many taking our jobs and others were racial to blacks that were coming over.
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions? they had to be healthy and they had to be clean crime wise
Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's? Immigrants
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population? the Cities got crowded and there was sanitation issues and rooms were crowded
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities? the streets were covered with poop and dead animals and human waste and the roads were horrible
Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city? they are people running the government in towns. political machine offered services to the people and created the position of the Mayor. Immigrants had chances to grow and it started local government
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring. He would use the Immigrants as a bribe their vote with money houses and he gave houses to immigrants
What caused all this corruption in government? people taking taxes form taxes payers
What laws came about to reform government? Pendleton civil act
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended? Separate but Equal and then they had the grandfather clause. Native Americans had to walk the trail of tears and they were but on reservations but they got over ran by white men
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
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