-Describe Native American culture.
before the europeans came, they were nomadic and followed buffalo.
after the europeans came, they brought horses and guns which the indians used. created tribe wars.
family life: lived in family groups and had relations to other groups that spoke the same language. men trained to be hunters and warrior and women prepared things like food and clothes
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
they moved there for gold, farming,cattle
The gold rush started in 1874. In south Dakota, the souix did not like the people invding.
the sioux was in conflict alot with the government.
attacks continued until the gov shut down the bozeman trail. established treaty of laramie.
colonel george custer quoted that the gold was from the grass roots down.
Cutsters last stand: sitting bull and crazy horse flanked and completely destroyed custer and his troops
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
assimilation. 1887 congress passed the Dawes Act intending to "americanize" the native americans
it disbanded reservations and gave land to individual native americans.
an unmarried adult recieved 80 acres of land and the head of household got 100
the native american people didnt get the resulting money from the sale of the land.
battle of wounded knee: the sioux tribe wanted to keep their culture alive. The indians were killed and it was the last of the indians wars
-Describe a cowboy's life.
came directly from the mexican vanqueros. alot came from mexican vanqueros culture
take cattle to illiois and they would put them on a stock car and took them to New York
chicago stock yard opened in 1865
1866 farmers blockaded the cattle drive route because they didnt want them trampling their crops
John Mcoy set up small shipping yards in kansas
25 percent were african american and 12 percent were mexican the rest were white
spent 10 to 14 hours at work a day
typical drive had 250 to 300 head of cows a cowboy
fencing split up the open west into sections making it difficult for cattle drives
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
central and union pacific linked in 1874, trying to make first transcontinental railroad
Homestead Act: act that lets any citizen or person sign up for citizen, got 160 acres of land
1899 oklahoma was for sale
brought people to the West
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
weather, animals, native americans
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
weather and hard soil, debt, did not get along with railroad companies
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
debt, worthless money, hard soil
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
A group who demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers
they also demanded that reforms give the people a greater voice in their government
they wanted
1) an increase in the money supply which would produce in a rise in prices received by goods and services
2)a graduated income tax
3)federal loan program
4)8 hour work day and restrictions on immigration
the proposed gov reform included
1)the election of the U.S. Senators by popular vote
2)single terms for the president and the vice president
3)secret ballot to end vote fraud
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
a discobery in the wealth of natural resources- oil and coal and iron ore
Government support for businesses
growing urban population that provided cheap labor and markets for new products
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
drilling for oil using steam engine
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
-How did the government try to regulate business?
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Ch. 7.1:
-Why did immigrants come to the US?
They thought it would be a better life
some left their country to escape difficult conditions
Push/pull factors
They came to earn money and then go back to their own countries
-Where did immigrants come from?
before 1830-Western and northern europe
After 1830-Eastern adn southern europe
Italy, Russia, and Austria-hungary
one million from these countries
-What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
Most immigrants traveled by steamships
The trip across the atlantic took a week
The trip acroos the pacific took about 3 weeks
traveled cheapest accommodations
disease spread quickly
some would die before they even got to the US
they would have to pass inspection at Ellis Island
ellis island closed in 1954
processing of immigrants could take 5 hours or more
anyone with contagious disease or serious health problem would be sent home
legal requirements were your ability to work, show you havent committed a crime, show you had some money( at least 20 bucks)
___had to start life over
different culture and language
-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
Nativism-favoritism towards native-born americans
Anglo-saxons -German ancestors of english thought they were superior to other ethinic groups
Chinese Exclusion Act- banned all chines except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
1882-the law was passed for ten year
1902-chinese immagration was restricted
1943- the law was repealed
Gentlemens agreement-japanese segregation
Theodore Roosevelt made a deal with japan
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?
Ch. 8.1:
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
Skyscrapers, electric streetcars, central park, Airplanes, kodak cameras, automobile, amusement parks, sports(tennis,boxing,baseball),
Ch. 8.2:
-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
William Harris-wanted better schools
Booker Washington-African american educator. racism belief
Night school-thousands of immigrants attended, also offered daytime programs
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
New voting restrictions-some limited it to only people who could read and made them take a literacy test
Poll tax
Grandfather clause-if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if his father of his grandfather had been eligible to vote before january 1, 1867
Jim Crow laws- southern states passed racial sgregation laws to separate white and black people in public and private places- took place in schools, railroads, marriage, and theaters
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
1892 a man named homer Plessy sat in a whites only car of a train and refused to move.
was arrested, tried, and convicted for breaking a lousiana segregation law
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
roller coaster-1884
ferris wheel- 1893
Coney Island opened in May 1903
Tennis
Art Gallerys
Boxing
Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
a time where people worked to reform the government adn correct social problems by taking power from rich and giving it to the poor 1890s-1920
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
banning of alchohol. it was destroying america. WTCU, Cari Nation, they made the 18th ammendment.
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
salvation army, YMCA
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
it banned the sale, distribution and drinking of alchohol
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
when the government runs the businesses
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business
upton sinclair and lincoln staffens
resulted in legislation such as the pure food and drug act of 1906, childrens labor act
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
voting, primary system- enabled voters to choose candidates for public office.
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
assembly line
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
8 hour workday
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
they passed laws that limmited hours and better working conditions.
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
they gave them an 8 hour workday and paid them 5 bucks a day
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
henry ford gave his workers 5 bucks a day. The higher paid and less hours made it so they would work harder
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
they made the secret ballot, the intiative, the referendum, and the recall.
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
made it so each state had to elect senators by direct election instead of by the states legislature
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
Voting rights, education
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
they pushed for workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement, food and drug laws
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Nation
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
Saved millions of acres in forests
solved many foreign policies with Morocco
Panama Canal
-Square Deal
Roosevelts campaign thing. kind of favored the common people
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
-Conservation
-Civil Rights
Ch.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.
28th president
Underwood act, lowering tariffs
made a gratuated fereral income tax
Successfully led the US to victory in WW
-Breaking up trusts
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Federal Trade Commission of 1914
-Underwood Tariff
new tax system.
it lowered tariff rates
-16th Amendment
-Federal Reserve System
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
before the europeans came, they were nomadic and followed buffalo.
after the europeans came, they brought horses and guns which the indians used. created tribe wars.
family life: lived in family groups and had relations to other groups that spoke the same language. men trained to be hunters and warrior and women prepared things like food and clothes
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
they moved there for gold, farming,cattle
The gold rush started in 1874. In south Dakota, the souix did not like the people invding.
the sioux was in conflict alot with the government.
attacks continued until the gov shut down the bozeman trail. established treaty of laramie.
colonel george custer quoted that the gold was from the grass roots down.
Cutsters last stand: sitting bull and crazy horse flanked and completely destroyed custer and his troops
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
assimilation. 1887 congress passed the Dawes Act intending to "americanize" the native americans
it disbanded reservations and gave land to individual native americans.
an unmarried adult recieved 80 acres of land and the head of household got 100
the native american people didnt get the resulting money from the sale of the land.
battle of wounded knee: the sioux tribe wanted to keep their culture alive. The indians were killed and it was the last of the indians wars
-Describe a cowboy's life.
came directly from the mexican vanqueros. alot came from mexican vanqueros culture
take cattle to illiois and they would put them on a stock car and took them to New York
chicago stock yard opened in 1865
1866 farmers blockaded the cattle drive route because they didnt want them trampling their crops
John Mcoy set up small shipping yards in kansas
25 percent were african american and 12 percent were mexican the rest were white
spent 10 to 14 hours at work a day
typical drive had 250 to 300 head of cows a cowboy
fencing split up the open west into sections making it difficult for cattle drives
Ch. 5.2:
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
central and union pacific linked in 1874, trying to make first transcontinental railroad
Homestead Act: act that lets any citizen or person sign up for citizen, got 160 acres of land
1899 oklahoma was for sale
brought people to the West
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
weather, animals, native americans
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
weather and hard soil, debt, did not get along with railroad companies
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
debt, worthless money, hard soil
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
A group who demanded reforms to lift the burden of debt from farmers and other workers
they also demanded that reforms give the people a greater voice in their government
they wanted
1) an increase in the money supply which would produce in a rise in prices received by goods and services
2)a graduated income tax
3)federal loan program
4)8 hour work day and restrictions on immigration
the proposed gov reform included
1)the election of the U.S. Senators by popular vote
2)single terms for the president and the vice president
3)secret ballot to end vote fraud
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
a discobery in the wealth of natural resources- oil and coal and iron ore
Government support for businesses
growing urban population that provided cheap labor and markets for new products
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
drilling for oil using steam engine
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
Ch. 6.3:
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
-How did the government try to regulate business?
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
Ch. 7.1:
-Why did immigrants come to the US?
They thought it would be a better life
some left their country to escape difficult conditions
Push/pull factors
They came to earn money and then go back to their own countries
-Where did immigrants come from?
before 1830-Western and northern europe
After 1830-Eastern adn southern europe
Italy, Russia, and Austria-hungary
one million from these countries
-What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
Most immigrants traveled by steamships
The trip across the atlantic took a week
The trip acroos the pacific took about 3 weeks
traveled cheapest accommodations
disease spread quickly
some would die before they even got to the US
they would have to pass inspection at Ellis Island
ellis island closed in 1954
processing of immigrants could take 5 hours or more
anyone with contagious disease or serious health problem would be sent home
legal requirements were your ability to work, show you havent committed a crime, show you had some money( at least 20 bucks)
___had to start life over
different culture and language
-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
Nativism-favoritism towards native-born americans
Anglo-saxons -German ancestors of english thought they were superior to other ethinic groups
Chinese Exclusion Act- banned all chines except students, teachers, merchants, tourists, and government officials
1882-the law was passed for ten year
1902-chinese immagration was restricted
1943- the law was repealed
Gentlemens agreement-japanese segregation
Theodore Roosevelt made a deal with japan
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?
Ch. 8.1:
-What advances in science and technology help solve urban problems?
Skyscrapers, electric streetcars, central park, Airplanes, kodak cameras, automobile, amusement parks, sports(tennis,boxing,baseball),
Ch. 8.2:
-How did education change in the late 1800's and early 1900's?
William Harris-wanted better schools
Booker Washington-African american educator. racism belief
Night school-thousands of immigrants attended, also offered daytime programs
Ch. 8.3:
-What laws and restrictions were put on African-Americans and other minorities after Reconstruction ended?
New voting restrictions-some limited it to only people who could read and made them take a literacy test
Poll tax
Grandfather clause-if a man failed the literacy test or could not afford the poll tax, he was still entitled to vote if his father of his grandfather had been eligible to vote before january 1, 1867
Jim Crow laws- southern states passed racial sgregation laws to separate white and black people in public and private places- took place in schools, railroads, marriage, and theaters
-Explain the significance of Plessy v. Ferguson.
1892 a man named homer Plessy sat in a whites only car of a train and refused to move.
was arrested, tried, and convicted for breaking a lousiana segregation law
Ch. 8.4:
-Explain what people did for entertainment in the late 1800's and early 1900's.
roller coaster-1884
ferris wheel- 1893
Coney Island opened in May 1903
Tennis
Art Gallerys
Boxing
Ch. 9.1
-Define the Progressive Era and why it started(goals).
a time where people worked to reform the government adn correct social problems by taking power from rich and giving it to the poor 1890s-1920
-What is prohibition? Why did people want prohibition to come about? What tactics were used to bring about prohibition?
banning of alchohol. it was destroying america. WTCU, Cari Nation, they made the 18th ammendment.
-Describe the impact aid organizations had on our country.
salvation army, YMCA
-What did the 18th Amendment do and why did people want it?
it banned the sale, distribution and drinking of alchohol
-What is socialism? How was it started in the United States?
when the government runs the businesses
-What/who were muckrakers and what impact did they have on our country?
journalists who wrote about the corrupt side of business
upton sinclair and lincoln staffens
resulted in legislation such as the pure food and drug act of 1906, childrens labor act
-What did local government do to reform itself during the Progressive Era?
voting, primary system- enabled voters to choose candidates for public office.
-What did businesses do to bring better efficiency to their business?
assembly line
-What did the progressives do to make the workplace safer?
8 hour workday
-What did the progressives do to help end or reduce child labor?
they passed laws that limmited hours and better working conditions.
-What did progressives do to help workers reduce the number of hours they had to work?
they gave them an 8 hour workday and paid them 5 bucks a day
-What did progressives do to bring about better wages for workers?
henry ford gave his workers 5 bucks a day. The higher paid and less hours made it so they would work harder
-What did progressives do to make our country more democratic?
they made the secret ballot, the intiative, the referendum, and the recall.
-What did the 17th Amendment do?
made it so each state had to elect senators by direct election instead of by the states legislature
Ch. 9.2
-Describe the major social changes that affected women during the Progressive Era.
Voting rights, education
-Describe women's push for suffrage(voting) and the passing of the 19th Amendment.
they pushed for workplace reform, housing reform, educational improvement, food and drug laws
-Describe some women who were leaders in the push for suffrage and temperance.
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Nation
Ch. 9.3
-Describe the major accomplishments of Teddy Roosevelt as President.
Saved millions of acres in forests
solved many foreign policies with Morocco
Panama Canal
-Square Deal
Roosevelts campaign thing. kind of favored the common people
-Breaking up strikes
-Regulating railroads
-Regulating food and drugs
-Conservation
-Civil Rights
Ch.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.
28th president
Underwood act, lowering tariffs
made a gratuated fereral income tax
Successfully led the US to victory in WW
-Breaking up trusts
Clayton Antitrust Act of 1914
Federal Trade Commission of 1914
-Underwood Tariff
new tax system.
it lowered tariff rates
-16th Amendment
-Federal Reserve System
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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