Q 1 Evaluate the importance of mining in the West Growth of Mining Industry Placer mining Quartz mining The Big Strike in Nevada Henry Comstock Virginia City NV Other Bonanzas Leadville Pikes Peak ID: 464904
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1-Evaluate the importance of mining in the West
Growth of Mining Industry
Placer mining
Quartz miningThe Big Strike in NevadaHenry ComstockVirginia City, NVOther BonanzasLeadvillePikes PeakNorthern Great Plains
Placer Mining
Quartz mining
Henry ComstockBoom town
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Q2
-Analyze the ranching and farming practices on the plainsRanching and Farming the Plains
Great Plains
Texas Longhorns
Farming Becomes Big BusinessRailroads WestHomestead ActWheat BeltGreat PlainsOpen range
Long driveHomestead act
HomesteadWheat Belt
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Q3
-Discuss the impact of settlers, and how they altered the way of life for Native Americans
Cultures under Pressure
Indian Peace Commission
Conflict and AssimilationSitting BullGhost DanceCentury of DishonorAssimilateDawes Act
Indian Peace Commission
Sitting Bull
Ghost DanceAssimilateDawes ActWounded Knee
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Q4
-Summarize the reason for growth of the American Industry after the Civil War.
United States Industrializes
GNP=Gross National Product
Natural ResourcesLarge Workforce1870-1910-20 million immigrantsFree EnterpriseFree EnterpriseLaissez-faireNew InventionsGross National ProductNatural ResourcesEntrepreneurs
Free EnterpriseLaissez-Faire
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Alva EdisonKEY TERMSSlide8Slide9
Q5
-Explain the impact of railroads on the nations’ industrialization.
Railroads Linking the Nation
1865 – 35,000 miles of track
1900-200,000 miles of trackPacific Railway Act 1862Railroads Spur GrowthAmerican Railway AssociationLand Grant SystemSell the land to settlers, real estate companies, and other business to raise moneyPacific Railway Act 1862-1864 changed land systemRobber BaronsBuilt their fortunes on swindling investors, and taxpayers, bribing government officials, and cheating on their contracts and debtsJames J. Hull and the Great Northern RailroadDid without any government funds and was not a robber baronOnly one that was not forced into bankruptcy
American Railway Association
Robber Barons
Land Grant SystemPacific Railway Act
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Q6
-Describe the rise of big business and the impact of the free enterprise system on industrialization.
Rise of Big Business
Corporations and Stockholders
1830 no need to for charter from statesReinvest stock money in:TechnologyLarger Workforce Machinery Consolidation of IndustryAndrew CarnegieVertical integrationJohn D. RockefellerHorizontal integration
Corporations
Andrew Carnegie
Vertical integrationHorizontal IntegrationMonopoly
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Q7
-Explain the roles of Unions in the late 1800’s.
Working Conditions
Life became monotonous
Breathed in dust lint, and toxic fumes, and heavy machines lacked safety devicesWay to collectively bargain for higher wages and better working conditionsStruggle to OrganizeEarly 1830s workers form skilled labor unionsKarl Marx and MarxismOwners of large corporations despise industrial unionsConfrontations in many cases lead to violence and bloodshedHaymarket SquareTwo Strikes for Railroad1877 Great Railroad StrikePullman Strike American Federation of Labor
Samuel GompersThree goalsWomen made up 18% of work forceAll in women type jobs
Marxism
Industrial Unions
AFL
Samuel Gompers
Closed Shops
Great Railroad Strike
Haymarket Square
Pullman Strike
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8-Describe the arrival of thousands of European and Asian immigrants of the United States after the Civil War.
Immigration
1900 more than half of all immigrants were Eastern and Southern
Europeans Flood into United StatesMany rural farmers , avoid military conscription, or Jew fleeing persecutionGetting to the United StatesEllis IslandJacob RiisAsian ImmigrationAngel IslandThe Resurgence of NativismAnti-Immigration Act1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
Ellis Island
Angel Island
NativismChinese Exclusion Act
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Q9
-Explain the impact of immigration and industrialization on the growth of American cities.
The Growth of American Cities
The New Urban Environment
Separation by ClassUrban Problems and PoliticsUrbanizationTenementsPolitical MachinesGraftBoss TweedJames and Thomas Pendergast
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Q10
-Explain the impact of immigration and urbanization on the growth of American society.
Gilded Age
Mark Twain
WarnerSocial DarwinismRealismPopular CultureVaudeville ActsGilded Age
IndividualismHerbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
PhilanthropyKEY TERMSSlide17
Q11
-Describe the attempts to help the urban poor.
The Rebirth of Reform
Social Criticism
1879 Henry George “Progress and Poverty”Lester Frank Ward “dynamic sociology” known as Reform Darwinism people succeed because of cooperate Helping the Urban PoorSocial Gospel (1870-1920) improve conditions in cities according to biblical ideas of charity and justiceWashington Gladden, advocate, tried to apply Christian law to social problems
Stressed the right of labor organization in ministry
Walter Rauschenbusch felt competition caused many social problems
Both inspired churches to increases in functions like day care and helping poorChristian Mission that became known as Salvation Army 1878Dwight L. Moody YMCAJane Addams established settlement houses, Hull HousesPublic Education
Industrialized nation needs trained and educated workers
1870 6.5 million children attended school by 1900 17.3 million
Here children became knowledgeable about American culture=Americanization
Grammar schools basic education, vocational and tech school specific trade
African American had to fund own schools, Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute in 1881
Henry George
Frank Ward
YMCA
Dwight L. Moody
Settlement Houses
Americanization
Booker T. Washington
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Q12-
Identify the results of the political stalemate in Washington from 1877 to 1896.
Stalemate in Washington
Spoils System
Sparked by assassination of James A GarfieldCleaning Up PoliticsRutherford B. HayesStalwartsHalfbreedsJames A. GarfieldPendelton Act 1883Two Parties Neck and NeckRepublican PartyDemocrat PartyElection of 1884Commerce, Trusts, and TariffsRepublicans Regain Power
Pendelton Act
Stalwarts
MugwumpsInterstate Commerce ActHalfbreedsRutherford B. HayesJames A. Garfield
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Q13
-Explain the rise of populism and its impact on American politics at the turn of the century.
Populism
Unrest in Rural America
Concerns of FarmersFarmers AllianceThe rise of PopulismPopulism
InflationDeflation
Grange
Granger lawsPeoples PartyFarmers AllianceGraduated Income TaxPanic of 1893William Jennings Bryan
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Q14-
Describe the segregated society created in the Southern states in the late 1800s.
Resistance and Repression
Benjamin “Pap” Singleton
Colored Farmers National AllianceDisenfranchising African Americans15th Amendment and Grandfather clauseLegalizing SegregationJim Crow Laws and separating racesPlessey v. FergusonAfrican American ResponseIda B Wells Booker T. Washington W.E.B DuBois”
Poll Tax
Prospective
Grandfather clauseSegregationJim Crow lawsPlessy vs. FergusonIda B. WellsW.E.B. Dubois
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