Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture. Women made hides for hunter and cooked the men were hunter and warriors they moved with the buffalo they used all of it never wasted any. Wonka Tonka was their spirit god everything had a spirit
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains? Missouri river and Rocky mountains. thought they were going to start mining and they thought it was going to make them rich there weren't nice town run down dirt roads. Sand creek massacre Cheyenne creek Indians started moving back into Colorado
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies? Doz act trying to Americanis them make them like white people gave them 160 acres of land. but eventually white took over there land. Hunting for buffalo 65 million to a thousand tourists liked to do it and Indians ran low on them. The battle of wounded knee. cavalry last native American war. U.S waged war against him. Battle of little bighorn win for the native Americans but just angered us
-Describe a cowboy's life. worked 10-14 hour days. spring round up all the cattle on there land wouldn't feed them so they would stay and graze. long drive lasted about 3 months 1 cowboy per 250 heat of cattle had to drive them up north Texas to Kansas because lack of transportation.
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? when settlers moved west to great planes if they built one mile of track they got 10 miles of land every mile made they got 10 square miles. Homestead act government gave farmers and settlers 160 acres of land could start building houses 1862 - 1900. Morril act happened between 1862 - 1890 this was when the government gave to land to the states to help finance agriculture.
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? Settlers had to build houses on hills out of the land they called them dugouts and soddies farmers went into debt because the equipment was to expensive. issues farmers faced crop prices good land was hard to find railroads overcharged farmers. worry about native American attacks
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? ground was hard.
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains? crop prices dropped. hard to find good land, and railroad importation were charging more.
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in? wanted to help people out. Oliver Hudson Kelley formed a group the grange helped farmer trying to lower prices helped trying to educate them how to have a better farming operation trying to get the workers more of a say within the government wanted larger money
helped factory worker also graduated income tax 8 hour work day federal loan program
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's? support from the government for businesses- growing urban population- technological improvements roads railroads hydraulic potential the Bessemer steel process made the steal stronger. there was cheap labor. lots of natural resources, oil boom
laissez- faire- let them do what they want very few rules big businesses government said let them do what they want that's why industrial revolution took off and because so many people were coming in
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives? creation of machines to replace human workers creation of machine to improve life telephone typewriter light bulb cotton gin the use of steam power. improved the standard of living population moving into cities. grim lpoor condition of living for working. strikes and riots feminist movements.
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US? central pacific and union pacific connected people cheered bought community closer together. went through cities and towns helped businesses brought goods and exported them.
-Why were many people upset with the railroads? farmers misuse of government land grants which railroads sold to other businesses railroads overcharged them
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads? grange farmers organization state by state fight railroad abuses trying to regulate the railroads but they were struck down by other courts interstate comers act federal law it allowed the government to regulate railroad prices
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie. 1848 came to America when 12 private secretary of Pennsylvania railroad started own steel business in 1873 searched ways to make products better then made products cheaper one of the first millionaires after the civil war supported charities Carnegie steel was his business
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller. started the standard oil company developed a monopoly in the oil market would lower prices to increase demand when the competition got driven away he would raise prices back up
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business? named for the collection of theories US UA strong live and weak die out similar to Charles darwins theory of natural selection hstong elements of society will survive economists used this to institute a laissez fair market
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts). holding companies would go out and by the stock of other companies other companies would go out of business the holding company would be the only supplier
Trust agreements campanies would from trusts with each other the owners would give their products to a head companies the head company would pay out profits in the form of dividends
vertical when oil company buying out transportation stores
horizontal where you own the resources buying out other oil companies
-How did the government try to regulate business? Cherman antitrust asked made trust agreements illegal but eventually the government stopped
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose? long hours dangerous environment salary was low child labor group of people trying to change
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples. brought 8 hour work day child labor
Ch. 7.1:
Why did immigrants come to the US? wanted to escape religious prosecution have a better life escape rising population in home country sought to find independents expected to find jobs
Where did immigrants come from? Japan China Europe Asia Germany England Russia Poland Mexico west indies
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here? the ships had diseases had to find places to lives and jobs had to learn different languages had to deal with discrimination
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions? to much crowding let to fighting band the Chinese immigrants got band because of racism mostly same with Japanese. if immigrants couldn't read 40 words in English they weren't allowed to enter.
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?
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Well done!