US Test 2 Test Prep

Short Answer definition:

1. Reconstruction
2. Amnesty
3. Andrew Johnson
4. 13th Amendment
5. 14th Amendment
6. 15th Amendment
7. Carpetbagger
8. Tenant farmers and Sharecroppers
9. Promontory Pt, Utah
10. Timezones
11. Samuel Morse
12. Edison
13. Bessemer Process:
14. Andrew Carnegie:
15. Social Darwinism
16. Monopoly:
17. Vertical consolidation:
18. Horizontal consolidation:
19. Steerage:
20. Urbanization:
21. Tenement:
22. Ghetto
23. Jacob Riis
24. Graft:
25. Political Machine:
26. William Marcy “Boss” Tweed
27. Gilded Age
28. Laissez-faire policies
29. Spoils system
30. Nativism
31. Social Gospel Movement
32. American Federation of Labor
33. Homestead Strike
34. Distribution of Wealth


Essay Questions:

1. How did daily life change from 1865 to 1900?


2)
Discuss the concept of Big Business in US History, and how it contributed to the growth of the industrial society.

Intro
Invention
Labor saving
Communication
Transportation
Industry

Industry
Rises from invention ex Carnegie
Benefits from new methods of control
Vertical monopoly
Horizontal monopoly

Immigration
Why they came
Where they worked
Where they lived

Growth of Cities
Urbanization
Immigration
Conditions
Rich
Poor
Middle Class
Conclusion

2) Discuss the Role of RR in increased agriculture, increased ranching, decreased bison, decreased native Americans.

Intro

RR Developments
Innovations
Transcontinental, etc.

Increased agricultural and Ranching interests
Move People
Move goods
Opened land

Hurt Native Americans
Loss of Land
Homestead
Competition
Main source of life (bison)
Market
Sport
Conclusion


3) Discuss reform as it applied to urban life and work.

Intro

Blame the Immigrants
Nativism
Prohibition
Purity Crusaders

Address the Cause
Charity Movement
Settlement House

Worker ‘uprising’ parallels the societal reform
Conditions
Labor Unions
AFL
IWW (socialism)
Strikes
Workers/Poor v. Wealthy/Business