AH Study Guide Unit 1

AH Study Guide—Unit 1

*You may use this study guide on the first test (date is on your calendar)

Chapter 5 Terms

1. Sand Creek Massacre—Clash between Cheyenne Indians and U.S. government in which 150 Natives were killed, mostly women and children.

2. Treaty of Fort Laramie--

3. Custer’s Last Stand—

4. Assimilation—

5. Dawes Act—

6. Battle of Wounded Knee—

7. Chisholm Trail—

8. Long Drive—

9. Homestead Act—

10.Morrill Act—

11.Populism—

12.Bimetallism—

13.William Jennings Bryan— Study Guide Questions (chapter 5)

1. Identify three differences between the culture of the Native Americans and the culture of the white settlers on the Great Plains.

2. Why was the Dawes act ineffective in promoting the assimilation of Native Americans into white culture?

3. How did the government help encourage settlement of the frontier?

4. What ideas were included in the Populist platform? Chapter 6 Terms

1. Edwin Drake--

2. Bessemer Process--

3. Thomas Edison—

4. Alexander Graham Bell—

5. Interstate Commerce Act—

6. Andrew Carnegie—

7. John D. Rockefeller—

8. Vertical integration—

9. Horizontal integration—

10.Social Darwinism—

11.“Robber Barons”—

12.Sherman Antitrust Act—

13.Samuel Gompers—

14.Eugene Debs—

15.American Federation of Labor— 16.Industrial Workers of the World—

17. Mother Jones--

Study Guide Questions (chapter 6)

1. Why did farmers demand regulation of the railroads in the late 19th century?

2. What impact did the railroads have on American culture?

3. Why were business leaders such as John D. Rockefeller called robber barons?

4. What factors limited the success of labor unions? Chapter 7 Terms

1. Ellis Island--

2. Angel Island--

3. Nativism—

4. Chinese Exclusion Act—

5. Urbanization—

6. Tenements—

7. Social Gospel—

8. Settlement houses—

9. Jane Addams—

10.Political machine—

11.Boss Tweed--

12.Patronage—

13.Pendleton Civil Service Act— Study Guide Questions (chapter 7)

1. What caused people to move to the U.S. in the late 19th & early 20th centuries?

2. What difficulties did immigrants face in America?

3. What problems were faced by cities in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

4. Why did machine politics become common in the cities in the late 19th century? Chapter 8 Terms

1. Louis Sullivan--

2. Frederick Law Olmstead--

3. Wright Brothers—

4. George Eastman—

5. Booker T. Washington—

6. W.E.B. DuBois—

7. Poll tax—

8. Grandfather clause—

9. Jim Crow Laws—

10.Plessy v. Ferguson—

11.Joseph Pulitzer--

12.William Randolph Hearst—

13.Marshall Field—

14.F.W. Woolworth--

15.Montgomery Ward— 16. Sears Roebuck--

Study Guide Questions (chapter 8)

1. How did late 19th century public schools change?

2. In what ways was racial discrimination reinforced by the federal government’s actions and policies?

3. What leisure activities flourished at the turn of the 20th century?