United States Study Guide American West / Rise of Industry

American History Review Guide West-Industry-Urbanization

1. What is another name for the Great 19. What invention of Joseph Glidden’s Plains? changed the frontier? 2. What two things were many Plains 20. Name four areas where the country Indians dependent upon? faced a gold rush? 3. Name four Plains Indian tribes? 21. What is a Ghost Town? 4. Why did the railroads extend to the 22. What were the short stories that west? told of legend and adventure in the 5. What animal did the railroads nearly west? drive to extinction? 23. What law created 160 acre farms 6. What is a cross-country railroad for settlers? called? 24. Name three technological advances 7. Name the two railroads that built that improved life on the frontier? the first cross-country railroad? 8. Where and when was the railroad 25. Type of house that many Plains completed? families first built? 9. What was the basic conflict between 26. Name three reasons that farming settlers and Indians? began to decline in the late 1800’s? 10. What Indian lands were invaded by 27. What is the overall decrease in the miners looking for gold? price of goods called? 11. Name the battle where Custer and 28. How did this hurt farmers? his men were defeated? 29. What did farmers want to do to 12. Name the two Indian leaders at stop this trend? Custer’s Last Stand? 30. What group often took advantage 13. Who was Chief of the Nez Pierce of farmers and their dependency? Indians? 31. What is the other name for the 14. Name the last of the Indian Grange? battles? 32. What were Granger laws? 15. What law gave Indian families 160 33. What political party formed to acres of land? replace the Grange? 16. What name was given to the area 34. Name several reforms proposed by where cattle were ranched? the new People’s Party? 17. Why did the demand for cattle 35. What was the overall theme of the increase? 1896 Presidential campaign? 18. How was the life of the cowboy 36. What was the Cross of Gold different than what we imagine? Speech?

1 37. Name the two candidates for 57. Theory that the best business will President in 1896? survive and prosper? 38. Who wins the 1896 election? 58. The practice of giving away large 39. Name three reasons why the sums of wealth? United States became the world’s 59. Name given to the major owners of leading economy? the big businesses? 40. What policy has the government 60. Federal Law that attempted to not interfering in people’s lives? regulate the activities of big 41. What laws protected American businesses? businesses from foreign 61. Monopoly formed by creating one competition? large company out of several 42. The idea that large businesses can companies? operate more efficiently? 62. Monopoly formed by the leaders of 43. Who invented the telephone? several businesses acting as one? 44. Who perfected the incandescent 63. Describe working conditions in the light bulb and the phonograph? late 1800’s? 45. What industry helped bring about 64. What was a company town? standardized time zones? 65. What is the job of a labor union? 46. Why did some people dislike big 66. What method did unions use to try businesses? and achieve their goals? 47. What are the advantages of big 67. What is a blacklist? businesses? 68. What is a lockout? 48. What was Horatio Alger known for? 69. What were replacement workers 49. This is a type of business that called? controls the supply of a product? 70. A court order to stop striking is 50. When a business controls all other called? companies of the same type? 71. In what way did the Federal 51. When a business controls other Government get involved in companies that contribute to that strikes? industry? 72. Which Labor Union accepted all 52. Leader of the Standard Oil types of workers? Company? 73. What happened at Haymarket 53. Leader of the steel industry? Square that hurt the goal of 54. Major banking leader in the nation? unions? 55. Leading railroad owner? 74. What type of worker was allowed 56. Wrote an article exposing the evils to join the AFL? of the Standard Oil Company? 75. How was an industrial union different?

2 76. Who was the leader of the Knights 92. What term is used to describe the of Labor? action of stealing money from the 77. Who led the AFL? government? 78. Who started the Industrial Union 93. What term describes the process movement? of getting paid to give out gov’t 79. Where were the first immigrants projects? to the United States from? 94. What is a political machine? 80. What advantages did these 95. Why were political machines able to immigrants have? control an area? 81. How did immigration change in the 96. What famous political machine later 1800’s? controlled New York City? 82. What are ethnic neighborhoods? 97. What famous cartoonist helped to 83. What group did the government ban expose the corruption of the from further immigration in 1882? machine? 84. What were three reasons that 98. What kind of scandal was Credit cities were growing so fast in the Mobilier? late 1800’s? 99. Congress was often accused of 85. What were the cramped, poorly being controlled by these groups in built apartment buildings of the the later 1800’s? cities called? 100. Which President first began a 86. What book did Jacob Riis write? campaign to reform the 87. What was Riis’ book about? government? 88. Who started Hull House in Chicago? 101. Which President was assassinated 89. What was Hull House? over trying to reform the corrupt 90. What large American city was government? nearly destroyed by fire in 1871? 102. What is the Pendelton Act? 91. Name several things that began to 103. What was the major issue in improve the quality of urban living? federal politics between 1884 and 1896?