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U.S. 2 AP Review

U.S. 2 AP Review. American West. Homestead and Pacific Railway Act encourage Western settlement. How?. The Gilded Age. Corporations, trusts, monopolies. Carnegie, Rockefeller, Swift, Vanderbilt. What industries? Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth.

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U.S. 2 AP Review

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  1. U.S. 2 AP Review

  2. American West • Homestead and Pacific Railway Act encourage Western settlement. How?

  3. The Gilded Age • Corporations, trusts, monopolies. • Carnegie, Rockefeller, Swift, Vanderbilt. • What industries? • Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth. • Labor vs management – Pullman Strike, Haymarket Affair

  4. The Gilded Age • Populist goals: Railroad regulation, free silver, income tax. • From the Grange Movement • Politics – Stalemate, patronage, Congress powerful. • Political Machines – Tammany Hall. • Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois • How were they different?

  5. Age of Expansion • Surplus goods. • Annexation of Hawaii • The Spanish American War • Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico– Platt Amendment. • Panama Canal • Latin America – Roosevelt Corollary, dollar diplomacy, gunboat diplomacy.

  6. Progressive Era • Government to take an active role in improving society. • Breaking up monopolies: What laws? • Safe working conditions/shorter hours/higher wages. • Regulation of child labor. • Direct election of senators. • Income tax. • Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act

  7. World War I • MAIN causes? Describe each. • U.S. Involvement: • Unrestricted submarine warfare – Lusitania • Sussex Pledge • Economics • The Note? • How did the Treaty of Versailles cause future problems? • League of Nations failure? Poor Wilson…

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