US HISTORY
Mr. Daarstad
Due _________
Bridge to the 20th Century
U.S. History—Unit 2
State Content Standard 11.2, 11.3
Pages: from America’s Journey. (Goldfield). Chapter 2-6, pages 22-163
Guiding Questions. Answer these questions!
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To what extent is it justified to characterize the industrial leaders of the late 1800s as either “Robber Barons” or
“Captains of Industry”?
How did industrialization inspire the progressive movement?
How was the progressive movement successful?
How did electoral and municipal reforms improve voting and government during the Progressive Era?
How did Woodrow Wilson bring the Progressive movement to its climax?
ID/Sigs. Identify and explain their significance.
1. Dawes Act
2. Farmer’s Alliance
3. Populism
4. Omaha Platform
5. vertical integration
6. horizontal integration
7. tenement
8. Knights of Labor
9. American Federation of Labor
10. Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle
11. Social Darwinism
12. Political machines
13. New Immigrants
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Progressive Era
muckraker
Social Gospel Movement
NA Women’s Suffrage Assoc.
Socialism
referendum
recall
initiative
Bull Moose Party
conservation
Federal Trade Commission
settlement houses
Square Deal
Snapshot Bios—Key players. Write 3-5 sentences on the importance of each person. Make sure to give important events in which
the person was involved.
1. Sitting Bull
14. William McKinley
2. Crazy Horse
15. Theodore Roosevelt
3. William Jennings Bryan
16. Upton Sinclair
4. Thomas Edison
17. Ida Tarbell
5. Alexander Graham Bell
18. Lincoln Steffens
6. Andrew Carnegie
19. Woodrow Wilson
7. John D. Rockefeller
20. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. J.P. Morgan
21. Carrie Chapman Catt
9. Samuel Gompers
22. Robert M. La Follette
10. Jane Adams
23. Susan B. Anthony
11. Eugene Debs
24. Jane Adams
12. William M. (Boss) Tweed
25. W.E.B. Du Bois
13. William Taft
26. Booker T. Washington
Timeline. Write a historical timeline providing information & facts about the ideas, events, people, and times.
1. Sand Creek Massacre
8. Triangle Shirt Waist Fire
2. Battle of Little Big Horn
9. Clayton Antitrust Act
3. Wounded Knee Massacre
10. 16th Amendment
4. Credit Mobilier Scandal
11. 17th Amendment
5. Gilded Age
12. 18th Amendment
6. Interstate Commerce Act
13. 19th Amendment
7. Sherman Antitrust Act
14. Pure Food and Drug Act
The California Social Science Standards—Unit 2
The California Social Science Standards 11.2, 11.3—Unit 2: Bridge to the 20th Century