<p> 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:</p><p>2. exodusters:</p><p>3. Morrill Act:</p><p>4. Oliver Hudson Kelley & the Grange (from 5.3):</p><p>5. Farmers’ Alliance (5.3):</p><p>QUESTIONS: 1. How did the transcontinental railroad open up the West for settlement?</p><p>2. How did the government encourage western settlement?</p><p>3. What was life like for the typical frontier settler and how did settlers build homes?</p><p>4. How did new technological inventions impact the West?</p><p>5. What hardships did farmers face in the late 1800s?</p><p>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</p><p>2. Thomas Edison & Alexander Graham Bell:</p><p>3. transcontinental railroad:</p><p>4. Credit Mobilier Scandal:</p><p>5. Interstate Commerce Act:</p><p>Questions: 6. What natural resources were most important to industrialization?</p><p>7. What were some of the new uses in the U.S. for steel?</p><p>8. How did electricity change American life and transform American business?</p><p>9. How did new inventions and products affect people at work and at home?</p><p>10. How did the growth of railroads lines promote the growth of cities and trade?</p><p>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:</p><p>2. vertical and horizontal integration:</p><p>3. Social Darwinism:</p><p>4. John D. Rockefeller:</p><p>5. Sherman Anti-Trust Act:</p><p>6. Samuel Gompers & the American Federation of Labor:</p><p>7. Eugene V. Debs:</p><p>QUESTIONS: 1. What business did Andrew Carnegie dominate and what were his management and business strategies?</p><p>2. What strategies allowed big business to eliminate competition?</p><p>3. Why didn’t the South share the business boom of industrialization?</p><p>4. What were conditions like for workers in the late 19th Century?</p><p>5. What did labor unions advocate? 6. Describe the most significant strikes during this period and what were the results: Great Strike of 1877:</p><p>Haymarket Affair: </p><p>Homestead Strike:</p><p>Pullman Strike:</p><p>7. What role did women like Mary Harris Jones play in the labor movement?</p><p>8. How did business and the government ultimately pressure and weaken unions?</p>