Unit Four: A Maturing Industrial Society 1877-1914 Themes: (Write in a few examples of each category for this Unit) Economic ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Societal ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Cultural ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Political ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Diplomatic ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Chapter 16: The American West Main Idea: ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________ Who is Thomas A. Ayres? ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________ ______________________________ I. The Great Plains Main Idea: ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________
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Unit Four: A Maturing Industrial Society 1877-1914
Themes: (Write in a few examples of each category for this Unit)Economic _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Societal _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Cultural _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Political _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Diplomatic _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Chapter 16: The American WestMain Idea: _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Who is Thomas A. Ayres? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I. The Great PlainsMain Idea: _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Define American Desert: ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________a. Indians of the Great Plains
___________________________________________________________b. Wagon trains, Railroads, and Ranchers
i. When did Congress designate the Great Plains Indian territory? How was this enforced? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. The Railroads1. In what ways was the ordeal of the wagon train alleviated?
2. The transcontinental Project, the Union pacific, and other railroad companies _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Ranchers and those who worked on ranches _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Positives and negatives _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
5. Open-range ranching (explain and explain what happened to it) ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
a. How did he become famous? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
b. Wild West Show ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. How else were settlers encourages to settle land? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. Drouthy Kansas __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Gender roles ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
v. Who went west? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
vi. Motivation? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
vii. Taming the Land1. What was life like? How was the climate/environment?
4. The Commercial World of the western farmer (explain this section in a few sentences; be sure to cite important companies, government intervention, and how farmers organized themselves) __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
d. The Fate of the Indiansi. The Reservation Solution
1. How did the government pave the way for white settlement? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Read the primary sources and answer the questions on pg 500-5013. How did Indians respond?
4. What was the role of the US army? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
7. What wrecked the reservation solution? Why? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Undermining tribal Culture1. How were Indians moved onto the “white man’s road”?
2. Helen Hunt Jackson _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. The Dawes Severalty Act 1887 _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Answer the questions on pg 504II. The Far West
What was this area like? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________a. The Mining Frontier
i. The Gold Rush and urbanization of the West (major cities? Why did it occur? When? Where? Effects?) _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Hydraulic Mining __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Read pg 507 and answer the questionsb. Hispanics, Chinese, Anglos
i. The Hispanic Southwest
1. How did Hispanics affect the area? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Indian tribes ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Anglo-Hispanic Culture1. Immigration and its effects
2. Chinese Exclusion Act _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
c. Golden Californiai. Why was California so special?
1. What was the climate like and how did it affect settlement? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Growth of farming and Industry ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What did he do? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Why was he significant? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. Answer the questions on pg 5155. Answer the questions on pg 516
Chapter 17: Capital and Labor in the Age of Enterprise 1877-1900
Main Idea : ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I. Industrial Capitalism TriumphantWhat was the age of Great Deflation? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________a. The Age of Steel
What are capital goods? How did they transform the US? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
i. Andrew Carnegie and American Steel1. Who? What did he do?
1. When did railroads become the mode of travel for Americans? How were they paid for? Who were major railroad tycoons? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. The railway System1. What does the railroad have anything to do with time zones?
2. How did advancing technology advance the growth of the railways? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Railroads and Wall St? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
c. Large Scale EnterpriseWhen did Big Business arrive in the US? Why? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
i. Gustavus Swift and Vertical Integration1. What did he do?
2. What is vertical integration? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. What is an oligopoly? And how does it relate to Swift? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. John D. Rockefeller and Monopoly Power1. 1863; Cleveland, OH; John D. Rockefeller
2. Standard Oil _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. The Birth of Consumer Marketing1. Quaker Oats company
2. Montgomery Ward and Sears ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. Great Atlantic and Pacific tea Company and FW Woolworth ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
4. What are mass-marketed goods? Why did they grow in America during this time period? How did advertising affect these brands? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. The managerial Revolutiona. HOW WERE THESE NEW COMPANIES CONTROLLED?
ii. Look at/examine the graphs on pg 528iii. Southern Labor
1. What kind of labor system evolved? Why? Effects? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What distinguished the southern labor market from the rest of the country? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. What work did they do? How were they received? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
v. Working Women and the Family Economy1. What kind of work did women do? How were they received?
vi. The Pittsburgh Inferno ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
vii. Working Women (pg534-535)b. Autonomous Labor
i. Breaker Boys ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. What is an autonomous labor worker? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. Social meaning ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Noontime ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
v. Dispersal of authority __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Mechanization __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. Scientific management and Frederick Taylor ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Answer the questions on pg 539III. The Labor Movement
a. The Killing floor ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
b. Define Collective bargaining ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Trade Unionism and everyday needs ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. Define closed shop __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. How did trade unions compare to the Knights of Labor? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iv. Define anarchism: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
v. Define yellow-dog contracts __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
vi. What was the AFL? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. End result? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. End result? ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
f. American Radicalism in the Makingi. Eugene Debs and American Socialism
1. Who was Debs and what did he believe in? What did he do? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
2. Define industrial union ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
g. Answer the questions on page 547IV. Answer the questions on page 548
Chapter 18: The Industrial City: Building It, Living In It
Main Idea: ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Who is Theodore Dreiser? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
I. UrbanizationWhy did urbanization come about? (give at least four examples) _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________a. City Innovation
i. Problems? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Mass transit1. When did it come about? Who was responsible?
1. Where did the go? How did they affect cities? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Ward McAllister and “High Society”1. Who was he? What did he do?
ii. Define suburbanization and its impact ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
c. Middle Class Familiesi. What was this household like?
2. Childhood and education _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
vi. Questions pg 566d. Challenging Female Delicacy
III. City Lifea. Newcomers
i. How did cities change with the influx of immigrants? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Define ghettosiii. Urban Blacks and their impact on cities
ii. Effects ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
c. Coming to America: The Downsided. Religion in the City
i. Judaism ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
ii. Catholicism ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
iii. Protestantism ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
e. City Amusementsi. Vaudeville
ii. Other amusementsiii. Geography of the city and amusementsiv. Baseballv. William Randolph Hearst and yellow journalism (explain)
f. Coney Islandg. The Higher Culture
i. Cultural Institutions1. Art galleries 2. Orchestras3. Donations and giving4. Did the US have “culture”?