AP U.S. History
HERRICK
Period 6: 1865-1898
INSTRUCTIONS: Use the following focus questions and terms to guide your Cornell Notes.
Your notes must be handwritten in blue or black ink and need to cover the entire chapter. Only
thorough, complete work deserves full credit. Each set of notes is due the day of the chapter
quiz unless otherwise noted. Quiz dates will be posted ahead of time in class. Ask Mrs.
Herrick if you have any questions.
Chapter 16: America’s Gilded Age 1870-1890
1. What factors combined to make the United States a mature industrial society after the
Civil War?
2. How was the West Transformed economically and socially in this period?
3. Was the Gilded Age political system effective in meeting its goals?
4. How did the economic development of the Gilded Age affect American freedom?
5. How did reformers of the period approach the problems of an industrial society?
Vocabulary:
1. Great upheaval of 1886
2. Vertical integration
3. Horizontal integration
4. Captains of Industry v. Robber Barons
5. Bonanza farming
6. Dawes Act
7. Ghost Dance
8. Greenbacks
9. Civil Service Act of 1883
10. Patrons of Husbandry
11. Interstate Commerce Commission
12. Social Darwinism
13. Liberty of Contract
14. Lochner v. New York
15. Knights of Labor
16. Social Gospel
Chapter 17: Freedom’s: Boundaries, at Home and Abroad, 1890-1900
1. What were the origins and the significance of Populism?
2. How did the liberties of blacks after 1877 give way to legal segregation across the
South?
3. In what ways did the boundaries of American freedom grow narrower in this period?
4. How did the United States emerge as an imperial power in the 1890’s?
Vocabulary
1. The People’s Party
2. Coxey’s Army
3. Free Coinage of Silver
4. Kansas Exodus
5. Plessy v. Ferguson
6. “separate but equal”
7. Lynching
8. Immigration Restricting League
9. Yick Wo v. Hopkins
10.United States v. Wong Kim Ark
11.Fong Yue Ting
12. Alfred T. Mahan
13. U.S.S. Maine
14. Platt Amendment
15. Emilio Aguinaido
16. Foraker Act
17. Anti-Imperialism League