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Chapter 5-8 questions
September 12th- Mr. Bruns was gone, work day
Septemeber 17th Tuesday- We talked about the test tomorrow, then we started talking about/fixing our questions below
Ch. 5.1:
-Describe Native American culture.- Spaniards and Europeons gave them guns and horses, young men made war and raiding parties counting coup, territory boundaries. Buffalo were very important because it provided them with tools, clothing everything so they followed them. Keeping one with the land nature was important
-Battles- massacre of sand creek 1864, Bozeman trail 1866 crazy horse killed a lot of American soldiers, red river war 1868, Custer's last stand 1876, wounded knee 1890
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?-cattle industry, farming, homestead act, railroads
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?- each Indian tribe had their own boundaries Dawes act attempt to Americanize by splitting up their reservations
-Describe a cowboy's life.- cattle industry, drought in 1883, demand for beef fell, winter of 1886. American settlers learn how to take care of cattle from mexico. Most cowboys were white 25% were African Americans an 12% were Mexicans worked 10-14 hours a day, usually didn't have horses of their own they used the company's. Cattle driving, cattle driving could last 3 months or more usually across the country most started in Texas to the Midwest. 12 man crew could manage a herd of 2000-3000
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains? made in 1862, 160 acres free to head of family yllowstone national park created in 1872 1889 massive land rush in OK 2 million acres in a day, 1890 govt declared that the frontier line no longer existed land settlement ended around 1900
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains? extreme hardships, dugouts and soddies, women woork, machinery, farmer debt, bonaza farms
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?extreme hardships, dugouts and soddies, women woork, machinery, farmer debt, bonaza farms
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?- Farmer, factory workers, common people. Party for the people, known as the Omaha platform. help farmers out of debt, give people a greater voice in government, increase money supply in circulation, graduated income tax, federal loan program, direct election of Senators, single terms for pres./v.p, secret ballot 8 hour work day, restrictions on immigration
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
the industrial revolution was from 1760 to 1840 without the industrial revolution most of what you use today wouldn’t exist. The UK had a massive expansion and was ahead of other countries for most of the industrial revolution because of more population. One of the things that caused it to take off was an increase in people who can work there were also more factories being built. The downside of all this growth was that a lot of people had to work and eventually so much work was needed that kids had to work
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
water wheel, steam engine, typewriter, telegraph, lightbulb
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
1753 first rail road in colonies brought profound political ecoonamic and social change
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?farmers did not like the railroads because land sold to the railroads were the settlers land and it was expensive to live near them
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
basically an organization sponsored by political candidates made sure rail roads were fair to farmers
Laissez Fairre- Govt. stays out of businesses
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.- Came to the country in 1848, opened steel company with stock money, became private secretary to superintendent of the Pennsylvania railroad
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.- trusts were no legal mergers, his standard oil company had different mergers, joined with competing companies in trust agreements gained total control of the oil industry in America
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?-Survival of the fittest
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).- made it illegal to form a trust that interfered with free trade, Sherman antitrust act, a corporation, that did nothing to buy other companies stock, set up holding companies, complete control over production wages and prices. Trust=monopoly. Big business control everything
-How did the government try to regulate business?-
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?-workers from related fields who have come together to protect and further their rights and interests, the workers included- skilled and unskilled, female and male and blacks and whites. issues violence occurred in several incidents, child labor, strike
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.- Yes workers from realted fiels who have come together to protect and further their rights and interests, the workers inluded skilled and unskilled female and male and blacks and whites
Ch. 7.1:
Why did immigrants come to the US?- Escape famine land shortages religion birds of passage industrial boom
Where did immigrants come from?-Europeans Chinese Japanese, west and north than 1890 south and east Europe Italy Austria Hungary Russia Jamaica Cuba Puerto Rico more islands and west indies
What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?- challenges llong trip, hatred and healthy living conditions had to get examined
Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? in 1907 over one million people immigrated Chinese helped us but also hurt us by 920 more that 200,000 Japaneses lived in the west coast about 700,000 people 7% percent of the pop of mexico at the time came to the us over the next 20 yrs
What were those restrictions?= United States annexation of Hawaii in 1898 chines to west coast 1902 national reclamation act0 created new farland westerna states irrigatio of arid land 1882 congressional act
W.A.S.P.- White, anglo, saxons, protestant
Ch. 7.2
Why did cities grow so quickly in the late 1800's and early 1900's? people immigrating
What problems did cities fact due to the rapid increase in population? Housing, overpopulation, sanitation,
What did some people do to try to help the bad situation in the cities? Settlement houses
Ch. 7.3
What was the political machine and what did they do for a city? it offered services to the people the position of a mayor in a town was created immigrants had chances to grow it was the start of local government they collected more loyal voters
Tell me about Boss Tweed and the Tweed Ring. boss tweed william tweed was the third largest landowner and he was a major leader in the democratic party he was convicted of stealing 25 million dollars from new your city taxpayers through political corruption in 1877
What caused all this corruption in government? Municipal Graft and scandal, election fraud was used for votes, bribes patronage spoils system, Rutherford b Hayes, reformers, stalwarts, James a Garfield, Chester a Arthur, Charles Guiteau pendleton civil service act, merit sysetem
What laws came about to reform government?civil service act, merit system. ealthy business oweners, tariffs, Grover A cleveland, Benjamin Harrison mckinley tariff act
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?stalwarts, James a Garfield, Chester a Arthur, Charles Guiteau pendleton civil service act, merit system. ealthy business oweners, tariffs, Grover A cleveland, Benjamin Harrison mckinley tariff act
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended? lieracy test, poll tax, grandfather clause, Jim Crow laws, Plessy V. Ferguson
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.case against segragation in the southern states
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