US History
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Chapters 5-6-7 Outline
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Westward Expansion
Who is moving?
Exodusters
Others
Why are these people moving?
Jobs in the West
Federal Land Grants
How are these people moving?
Covered Wagons
Railroads
Transcontinental Railroad
Monopolies
How did Westward Expansion affect the US?
Geography
Native Americans
Dawes Act
African Americans
Closing the Frontier – General Washburn
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Industrialization
What is “industrialization”?
Key Players:
Edwin Drake:
Henry Bessemer:
Andrew Carnegie:
John Rockefeller:
Laissez Faire
Capitalism
Gospel of Wealth
ECONOMIC
PHILOSOPHIES
Social Darwinism
Reform Darwinism
Tariff –
High Tariffs
Low Tariffs
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How did these economic philosophies affect society?
Population Shift
Invention
Leisure Time
Led to:
Monopolies
Trusts
Robber Barons
Corruption
Interstate Commerce Commission
Panic of 1893
What impact did industrialization have on society?
Population Shift
Ideas and isolation
Inventions
Leisure time
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Labor Unions
Need for Unions
Local Unions
Two Types of Unions
Trade
Industrial
National Labor Union NLU
Knights of Labor
Arbitration
Strikes
Haymarket Affair
Pullman Strike
Women Organize
Mary Harris Jones
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
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IMMIGRATION
Old immigration
New Immigration
Immigrants come to America
From
From
across the
across the
in about
in about
arrived at
arrived at
Push Factors
Pull Factors
Once in the US immigrants would…….
Americans respond to influx of immigrants with……
The Government responds to the large numbers of immigrants
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen's Agreement
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URBANIZATION
Opportunities
Population
URBAN
PROBLEMS
Addressing the problems
Jacob Riis
Social Gospel Movement
Settlement House Movement
GILDED AGE
What does that mean?
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Political Machines
Immigrants
Fraud and Graft
Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Patronage and its results
Presidents try for Reform
Mugwumps
Stalwarts
Pendleton Act
Big business and Government
McKinley Tariff
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Wilson Gorman Tariff
POPULISM - - - POPULIST PARTY - - - - PEOPLE’S PARTY
Platform
Bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan
THE WIZARD OF OZ
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