Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier

Chapter 5: Changes on the Western Frontier Section 2 & 3: Settling on the Great Plains & Farmers Standard: 11.8.6 Discuss diverse environmental regions of N. America – economies and environmental problems. KEY TERMS: 1. Homestead Act:

2. exodusters:

3. Morrill Act:

4. Oliver Hudson Kelley & the Grange (from 5.3):

5. Farmers’ Alliance (5.3):

QUESTIONS: 1. How did the transcontinental railroad open up the West for settlement?

2. How did the government encourage western settlement?

3. What was life like for the typical frontier settler and how did settlers build homes?

4. How did new technological inventions impact the West?

5. What hardships did farmers face in the late 1800s?

6. What were the economic problems facing farmers including issues with the railroads that caused them to organize? (5.3) Chapter 6: A New Industrial Age Section 1& 2: The Expansion of Industry & Railroads Standard: 11.2.1 Effect of Industrialization on living and working conditions Standard: 11.2.6 Economic development of U.S. industrial power and trade. KEY TERMS: 1. Bessemer process

2. Thomas Edison & Alexander Graham Bell:

3. transcontinental railroad:

4. Credit Mobilier Scandal:

5. Interstate Commerce Act:

Questions: 6. What natural resources were most important to industrialization?

7. What were some of the new uses in the U.S. for steel?

8. How did electricity change American life and transform American business?

9. How did new inventions and products affect people at work and at home?

10. How did the growth of railroads lines promote the growth of cities and trade?

11. How did the railroad industry help cause the Panic of 1893 and what impact did the panic have on railroad companies? Chapter 6: A New Industrial Age Section 3: Big Business and Labor Standard: 11.2.1 Effects of industrialization on living and working conditions Standard: 11.2.5 Discuss corporate mergers, trusts, cartels and policies of industrial leaders. 11.2.7 Social Darwinism KEY TERMS: 1. Andrew Carnegie:

2. vertical and horizontal integration:

3. Social Darwinism:

4. John D. Rockefeller:

5. Sherman Anti-Trust Act:

6. Samuel Gompers & the American Federation of Labor:

7. Eugene V. Debs:

QUESTIONS: 1. What business did Andrew Carnegie dominate and what were his management and business strategies?

2. What strategies allowed big business to eliminate competition?

3. Why didn’t the South share the business boom of industrialization?

4. What were conditions like for workers in the late 19th Century?

5. What did labor unions advocate? 6. Describe the most significant strikes during this period and what were the results: Great Strike of 1877:

Haymarket Affair:

Homestead Strike:

Pullman Strike:

7. What role did women like Mary Harris Jones play in the labor movement?

8. How did business and the government ultimately pressure and weaken unions?