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1. Read, Highlight, and Outline Chapters 24 and 25
2. Complete Chapter 24 and 25 Guided Reading Questions (GRQ's) and Chapter ID's.
All work is due upon return from Regents Week.
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Chapter 24 ids
Government Subsidies a form of assistance in paying to the bank of the us
Transcontinental Railroad railroad that went from coast to coast
Cornelius Vanderbilt entrepreneur by monopolizing railroads
Pullman “Palace Car” founded by geroge Pullman manufactured railroad cars
Jay Gould speculator of railroads
Railroad corruption
Interstate Commerce Commission stated in the commerce act by grover cleveleand and then was abolished
Mesabi Range a mine for iron ore
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone
Thomas Alva Edison invented the lightbulb
Andrew Carnegie founder of Carnegie steel company
Vertical Integration a style of manage control
Horizontal Integration a style of management control
John D. Rockefeller founded standard oil company
Trusts a way of management were one person assists another
J.P. Morgan entrepreneur banker and monopolist
Sherman Anti-Trust Act allowed federal govt to persue trusts
Gibson Girl the personification of feminine ideal image
Yellow Dog Contracts agreement between boss and employee
Blacklists a list of people that have certain privilages and access of recognition
Company Towns industrial towns in which are real estate and buildings
Haymarket Square incident a terrorist threw a bomb at a police.
A.F.L. (American Federation of Labor) founded to keep jobs in order
Chapter 24 Questions
The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse
Know: Land grants
1. What were the advantages and disadvantages of government subsidies for the railroads? Govt could make a profit my transporting good at high amounts.
Spanning the Continent with Rails
Know: Union Pacific, Central Pacific, Paddies, Leland Stanford
2. Describe how the first transcontinental railroad was built. It was built cross country from coast to coast
Binding the Country with Railroad Ties
Know: The Great Northern, James J. Hill
3. Explain how the railroads could help or hurt Americans. It could help Americans transport and take in their goods faster.
Railroad Consolidation and Mechanization
Know: Cornelius Vanderbilt, Pullman Cars
4. What technological improvements helped railroads?
Revolution by Railways
Know: Time Zones
5. What effects did the railroads have on America as a whole? More transporting of the goods and easier transport
Wrongdoing in Railroading
Know: Jay Gould, Stock Watering, Pools
6. What wrongdoing were railroads guilty of?
Government Bridles the Iron Horse
Know: Wabash, Interstate Commerce Commission
7. Was the Interstate Commerce Act an important piece of legislation?
Miracles of Mechanization
Know: Mesabi Range, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison
8. What factors made industrial expansion possible?the new goods that started being produced and sold such as steel oil and rubber
The Trust Titan Emerges
Know: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Vertical Integration, Horizontal Integration, Trust, Interlocking Directorate
9. How did businesses organize to try to maximize profits? Get the most costomers by putting low prices and then raising them
The Supremacy of Steel
Know: Heavy Industry, Capital Goods, Consumer Goods, Bessemer Process
10. Why was steel so important for industrialization? Steel was needed for building which also was a major part of the gilded age
Carnegie and Other Sultans of Steel
Know: Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan
11. Briefly describe the careers of Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan.
They were entrepreneurs whos monopolized their industry.
Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose
Know: Kerosene
12. How was John D. Rockefeller able to become so wealthy? He monopolized the oil industry by lowering his prices at a non profitable price and shutting down other oil companies and then he raised his prices.
The Gospel of Wealth
Know: Social Darwinism
13. How did the wealthy justify their wealth? They would invest more as well as selling stocks and then they became even more successfull
Government Tackles the Trust Evil
Know: Sherman Anti-Trust Act
14. What two methods were tried by those who opposed the trusts?
The South in the Age of Industry
15. How successful were Southerners at industrializing? They were able to use the railroad to get the goods but they weren’t as successful as the north
The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America
16. Describe the positive and negative effects of the industrial revolution on working Americans. It was bad for them because most Americans were working in nfactories for very lo money and were working low hours
In Unions There is Strength
Know: Scabs, Lock-out, Yellow-dog Contract, Black List, Company Town
17. What conditions existed in America that led Jay Gould to say, "I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half"? the working conditions were awfull for workers
The AF of L to the Fore
Know: American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers, Closed Shop
20. How was the AFL different from previous unions? It made sure that jobs were under control
Chapter #25: America Moves to the City
Florence Kelley social political reformer from philidelphia
Mary Baker Eddy had some solutions to health issues
Charles Darwin a naturalist who studied the species of life
Booker T. Washington polititial leaderand author for black people
William James medical doctor and author
Henry George American writer
Horatio Alger another writer
Mark Twain a humorist and a writer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman American poet
Carrie Chapman Catt president of sufferage assossiation
Nativism where you belong to the place you were born
Philanthropy donators
Yellow Journalism the writing that was from one point of view to prove a oint
Josiah Strong author
New Immigration people who were coming into America 1900s
Social Gospel a form of religion
Settlement House a massive social movement
Modernist culture movements
Women's Christian Temperance Union an organization for Christian women
Eighteenth Amendment ratification was certified
CHAPTER 25: AMERICA MOVES TO THE CITY
The Urban Frontier
Know: Louis Sullivan, Walking Cities, Department Stores, Tenements
23. What factors led to the growth of cities in the second half of the 1800's? Industrialization, railroads and inventions.
The New Immigration
24. How were the new immigrants different from the old immigrants? The new immigrants came for better life and jobs.
Southern Europe Uprooted
25. Why did the new immigrants come to America in such large numbers? They were all getting away from their old countries because America was expanding and had jobs.
Makers of America: The Italians
Know: Birds of Passage, padrone
26. How did Italian immigrants live their lives in America? they mostly made investments in stores and property.
27. How did political bosses help immigrants?
28. In 1886, what was ironic about the words inscribed on the base of the Statue of Liberty? The people coming off the boat were happy to see in America and would describe the statue as something amazing. It was ironic because not everyone made a success in America.
31. What advances took place in education in the years following the Civil War? More schools were formed and there were more grades to attend.
32. Explain the differences in belief between Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois. Booker t was a spokesman and author for black people.
33. What factors allowed the number of college students to dramatically increase? Money increase in families and the need for better jobs.
34. Describe some of the intellectual achievements of the late 1800’s. Industry, factories, inventions, railroads.
35. How did the ability to produce newspapers inexpensively change their content? They would include yellow journalism which is trying to get people to believe in one point of view.
36. How did writers in the 1870's and 1880's try to address the problems of their time? They would tell first person stories from their point of view.
37. Did the trends in writing after the Civil War make it a good period for literature? Explain. Yes because there was a lot to say after the civil war such as women sufferage and unequal black rights.
38. What did many writers in the late 1800's have in common? They talked about their own problems that addressed themselves.
The New Morality
Know: Victoria Woodhull, Anthony Comstock
39. What evidence demonstrated a battle raging over sexual morality? Women weren’t able to vote.
40. What changes were occurring in the women's rights movement? Women gained their sufferage.
41. What social causes were women (and many men) involved in the late 1800's? women gaining their sufferage as well as wanting equal rights and jobs.
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