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Settling the west

Settling the west. 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 Northern Great Plains. Placer Mining Quartz mining Henry Comstock

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Settling the west

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  1. Settling the west

  2. Q1-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 • Northern Great Plains • Placer Mining • Quartz mining • Henry Comstock • Boom town KEY TERMS

  3. Q2-Analyze the ranching and farming practices on the plains • Ranching and Farming the Plains • Great Plains • Texas Longhorns • Farming Becomes Big Business • Railroads West • Homestead Act • Wheat Belt • Great Plains • Open range • Long drive • Homestead act • Homestead • Wheat Belt KEY TERMS

  4. 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 Assimilation • Sitting Bull • Ghost Dance • Century of Dishonor • Assimilate • Dawes Act • Indian Peace Commission • Sitting Bull • Ghost Dance • Assimilate • Dawes Act • Wounded Knee KEY TERMS

  5. Q4-Summarize the reason for growth of the American Industry after the Civil War. • United States Industrializes • GNP=Gross National Product • Natural Resources • Large Workforce • 1870-1910-20 million immigrants • Free Enterprise • Free Enterprise • Laissez-faire • New Inventions • Gross National Product • Natural Resources • Entrepreneurs • Free Enterprise • Laissez-Faire • Alexander Graham Bell • Thomas Alva Edison KEY TERMS

  6. 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 track • Pacific Railway Act 1862 • Railroads Spur Growth • American Railway Association • Land Grant System • Sell the land to settlers, real estate companies, and other business to raise money • Pacific Railway Act 1862-1864 changed land system • Robber Barons • Built their fortunes on swindling investors, and taxpayers, bribing government officials, and cheating on their contracts and debts • James J. Hull and the Great Northern Railroad • Did without any government funds and was not a robber baron • Only one that was not forced into bankruptcy • American Railway Association • Robber Barons • Land Grant System • Pacific Railway Act KEY TERMS

  7. 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 states • Reinvest stock money in: • Technology • Larger Workforce • Machinery • Consolidation of Industry • Andrew Carnegie • Vertical integration • John D. Rockefeller • Horizontal integration • Corporations • Andrew Carnegie • Vertical integration • Horizontal Integration • Monopoly KEY TERMS

  8. 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 devices • Way to collectively bargain for higher wages and better working conditions • Struggle to Organize • Early 1830s workers form skilled labor unions • Karl Marx and Marxism • Owners of large corporations despise industrial unions • Confrontations in many cases lead to violence and bloodshed • Haymarket Square • Two Strikes for Railroad • 1877 Great Railroad Strike • Pullman Strike • American Federation of Labor • Samuel Gompers • Three goals • Women made up 18% of work force • All in women type jobs • Marxism • Industrial Unions • AFL • Samuel Gompers • Closed Shops • Great Railroad Strike • Haymarket Square • Pullman Strike KEY TERMS

  9. Q8-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 States • Many rural farmers , avoid military conscription, or Jew fleeing persecution • Getting to the United States • Ellis Island • Jacob Riis • Asian Immigration • Angel Island • The Resurgence of Nativism • Anti-Immigration Act • 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act • Ellis Island • Angel Island • Nativism • Chinese Exclusion Act KEY TERMS

  10. 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 Class • Urban Problems and Politics • Urbanization • Tenements • Political Machines • Graft • Boss Tweed • James and Thomas Pendergast KEY TERMS

  11. Q10-Explain the impact of immigration and urbanization on the growth of American society. • Gilded Age • Mark Twain • Warner • Social Darwinism • Realism • Popular Culture • Vaudeville Acts • Gilded Age • Individualism • Herbert Spencer • Social Darwinism • Philanthropy KEY TERMS

  12. 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 Poor • Social Gospel (1870-1920) improve conditions in cities according to biblical ideas of charity and justice • Washington 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 poor • Christian Mission that became known as Salvation Army 1878 • Dwight L. Moody YMCA • Jane Addams established settlement houses, Hull Houses • Public 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 KEY TERMS

  13. 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 Garfield • Cleaning Up Politics • Rutherford B. Hayes • Stalwarts • Halfbreeds • James A. Garfield • Pendelton Act 1883 • Two Parties Neck and Neck • Republican Party • Democrat Party • Election of 1884 • Commerce, Trusts, and Tariffs • Republicans Regain Power • Pendelton Act • Stalwarts • Mugwumps • Interstate Commerce Act • Halfbreeds • Rutherford B. Hayes • James A. Garfield KEY TERMS

  14. 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 Farmers • Farmers Alliance • The rise of Populism • Populism • Inflation • Deflation • Grange • Granger laws • Peoples Party • Farmers Alliance • Graduated Income Tax • Panic of 1893 • William Jennings Bryan KEY TERMS

  15. Q14-Describe the segregated society created in the Southern states in the late 1800s. • Resistance and Repression • Benjamin “Pap” Singleton • Colored Farmers National Alliance • Disenfranchising African Americans • 15th Amendment and Grandfather clause • Legalizing Segregation • Jim Crow Laws and separating races • Plessey v. Ferguson • African American Response • Ida B Wells • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B DuBois” • Poll Tax • Prospective • Grandfather clause • Segregation • Jim Crow laws • Plessy vs. Ferguson • Ida B. Wells • W.E.B. Dubois KEY TERMS

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