Unit 5: Industrialization and the Progressive era

Chapter 16: Great Railroad Strike of 1877,  Gilded Age, capitalism, Robber Barons (Cornelius Vanderbilt, JD Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan), Social Darwinism, Knights of Labor, strikebreakers, Haymarket Riot, anarchist, American Federation of Labor (AFL), Eugene Debs, William Jennings Bryan, Gold Standard Act

Chapter 17: Mining boom, Homestead Act, “Indian wars”, Treaty of Fort Laramie, Sand Creek Massacre, Indian Peace Commission, Indian schools, Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer, Crazy Horse, Transcontinental Railroad, World’s Columbian Exposition (“White City”), Chisholm Trail, Dawes General Allotment Act, Wounded Knee, Frederick Jackson Turner’s “Frontier Thesis”

Chapter 18: meatpacking industry, Menlo Park, electricity, rail cars, urbanization, chain migration, ethnic enclaves, Tammany Hall, William “Boss” Tweed, New South, Jim Crow laws, lynching, “Lost Cause”, Standard Oil, “gospel of wealth”

Chapter 19: Hawaii, Spanish-American, Philippine-American War, yellow journalism, USS Maine, Theodore Roosevelt, imperialism, “big stick” theory, dollar diplomacy, Anti-Imperialist League, nativism, new immigrants (Italian, Polish and East European Jews), Chinese Exclusion Act, Immigration Act

1. How did the rapid economic development and business consolidation of the Gilded Age impact the nation’s economy & society?

2. Describe the relationship between the US government and Native American tribes during this time period. Be specific.

3. External and internal migration increased urban populations and fostered the growth of a new urban culture. Explain what this new urban culture looked like.

4. In what ways was America building an empire during this time period? In what ways did people argue for or believe America was promoting autonomy and democracy?

5. In what ways did rights for African Americans expand in the New South. In what ways did they constrict?