Sitting Bull= awsomeness
-Describe Native American culture.
Mostly osage, iowa, sioux, and cheyenne. hunters and gathers, horses were given to tribes. young men were hunters and warriors, women would butcher game and prepare hides children were taught through story telling. Tribes wernt controlled by one person.
-Why did settlers/people move to the Great Plains?
Manifest destiny, Cattle raching, Farming, and Looking for Gold and Silver and Other Riches.
-How did the US gov't deal with Native Americans in the mid to late 1800's? What were their policies?
Tried to Americanize the Native Americans. Dawes Act don't forget.
-Describe a cowboy's life.
A cowboy is a Man who tends cattle on ranches in North America. Work on ranches for 10 -14 hours a day. Started spring with the Spring roundup from Texas to Kansas.
Ch. 5.2:
the 5-2 person isn't here still so we are not doing 5-2
-How did railroads and the Homestead Act help settle the Great Plains?
-What challenges did settlers face on the Great Plains?
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
Ch. 5.3:
-What problems did farmers face on the Great Plains?
Prices for crops, land becoming scarce, losing farms, but mostly just debt.
-Who were the Populists and what did they believe in?
Movement of none rich people and they fought against rich white people and they wanted a increase in money supply, 8 hour work day, graduated income tax.
Check 5-3 if don't understand
Ch. 6.1:
-What caused the Industrial revolution to really take off in the late 1800's?
Cheap labor and markets for new products, growing urban population, Ceaper Steel, wealth of natural resources, and Government support for small business
-What were some new inventions in the late 1800's and what affect did they have on people's lives?
Bessemer Process, Light Bulb, Typewriter(First only had CAPS), Telephone,
Ch. 6.2:
-What impact did railroads have on the US?
Let us go West faster. Also trade goods faster. Set up Time Zones.
-Why were many people upset with the railroads?
Taking up peoples land, and misuse by Government.
-What did the Grangers or government do to regulate the railroads?
establish max freight and passenger rates and prohibit discrimination but wasn't fair to African Americans
Ch. 6.3:
Check page 242 in book
-Tell me about Andrew Carnegie.
Born in 1835, moved to US in 1848, first job when he was 13 and earned $1.20, his first check from investing stocks was for a whole $10, Carnegie Steel Company produced more steel than all of Great Britain.
-Tell me about John D. Rockefeller.
Born July 8.1839 and started first business at age of 19. Established the Standard Oil Company in Ohio and paid emeployees extremly low wages. Used trust agreements to merge with other companies.
-What was Social Darwinism and how did it apply to business?
Social Darwinism states that the stronger business will dominate the weaker business.
-Explain how companies formed monopolies(vertical/horizontal integration, trusts).
A monoply is when one company owns a whole area of some good so then they will jack up the prices to whatever they want.
-How did the government try to regulate business?
Sherman act
-What are labor unions and what is their purpose?
workers were paid a little a week and the Labor Unions would benefit the workers in dangerous working conditsions.
-Were labor unions successful in achieving their goals? Explain/Give examples.
No early on but later they will start achieving their goals.
Ch. 7.1:
-Why did immigrants come to the US?
-Where did immigrants come from?
-What problems/issues did immigrants face on the trip over and once they got here?
-Why did some people want to put restriction on immigration? What were those restrictions?
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?
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 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.
-Breaking up trusts
-Underwood Tariff
-16th Amendment
-Federal Reserve System
-Limits to Progressivism under Wilson
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