Period6, Ch23-26 Study Guide
NAME: ____________________________
Industrialization (1865-1898):
Industrialization (Ch. 23-26)
...is about exploring the politics of the gilded age and the growing connections between government and
industry as the frontier was closed and factories expanded. The result was social and class conflict.
What historical “lessons learned” can be drawn from the period, 1865-1898?
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- Humans need to adapt to environments has necessitated technological innovation.
- Cultures spread through syncretism.
- Economic conditions and religion are key components in legitimizing or undermining government.
Objectives:
1.
Evaluate the extent to which the term gilded age is accurate.
2.
Describe the political corruption of the Grant administration and the various efforts to clean up politics in the
Gilded Age.
3.
Analyze the growth of social and class conflict during the 1870s and 1890s.
4.
Analyze the connection between the transcontinental railroad network, industry, and government,
5.
Describe the new industrial city and its impact on American society.
6.
Analyze social changes experienced in the U.S. in the late 1800s, particularly in relation to women.
7.
Analyze impact of industrialization and western settlement on the environment.
8.
Analyze the social, political, and economic consequences of new immigration and migration to the West.
Key Concepts:
Explain the definition, role, and significance of…
Chapter 23
“waving the bloody shirt”
Tweed Ring
Credit Mobilier scandal
Panic of 1873
Soft money
Hard money
Gilded Age
Patronage
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1875
Sharecropping
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
Homestead Strike
Grandfather clause
Jay Gould
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
William Jennings Bryan
J. P. Morgan
Chapter 24
Wabash Railroad
Interstate Commerce Act
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Trust
Standard Oil Company
Interlocking directorates
Social Darwinists
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
American Federation of Labor
Closed shop
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander Graham Bell
Thomas Edison
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
“Mother” Jones
Samuel Gompers
Gospel of Wealth
Chapter 25
New immigrants
Settlement houses
Liberal Protestants
Tuskegee Institute
Land-grant colleges
Pragmatism
Yellow Journalism
NAWSA
WCTU
Realism
Naturalism
Regionalism
City Beautiful movement
World’s Columbian Exposition
Jane Addams
Charles Darwin
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Joseph Pulitzer
Williams Randolph Hearst
John Dewey
Carrie Chapman Catt
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Chapter 26
Reservation system
Battle of Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Chief Joseph
Ghost Dance Movement
Dawes Severalty Act
Mining industry
Mechanization of agriculture
The Grange
Populists
Pullman strike
Fourth party system
Gold Standard Act
Frederick Jackson Turner
Jacob S. Coxey
William McKinley
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
U.S. Fish Commission
Sierra Club
Theme: The importance of the West grew in the early nineteenth century. Cheap land attracted
immigrants and natives alike, and, after some technological innovations, the West became an agricultural
giant. The increased output also spurred transportation developments to tie this developing region to the
rest of the United States.
Theme: In the era of Jacksonian democracy, the American population grew rapidly and changed in
character. More people lived in the raw West and in the expanding cities, and immigrant groups like the
Irish and Germans added their labor power to America’s economy, sometimes arousing hostility from
native-born Americans in the process.
Theme: In the early nineteenth century, the American economy developed the beginnings of
industrialization. The greatest advances occurred in transportation, as canals and railroads bound the
Union together into a continental economy with strong regional specialization.
Theme: The spectacular religious revivals of the Second Great Awakening reversed a trend toward
secular rationalism in American culture, and helped to fuel a spirit of social reform. In the process, religion
was increasingly feminized, while women in turn took the lead in movements of reform, including those
designed to improve their own condition.
Theme: The attempt to improve Americans faith, morals, and character affected nearly all areas of
American life and culture, including education, the family, literature, and the arts, culminating in the great
crusade against slavery.
Theme: Intellectual and cultural development in America was less prolific than in Europe, but they did
earn some international recognition and became more distinctly American, especially after the War of
1812.