AP History
Mr. Dunn
Chapter 17 and 18 Study Guide
Industrial Supremacy and the Gilded Age
1850s-1900’s
Important Terms, People, and Ideas
Bessemer Process
Henry Ford
Wright Brothers
Taylorism
Assembly Line
Impact of Railroad
Corporation
Andrew Carnegie
Horizontal integration
Vertical integration
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Practices of robber barons
Trust
Monopoly
Social Darwinism
Gospel of Wealth
Old Immigration
New Immigration
Women and child labor
National Labor Unions
Molly Maguires
Knights of Labor
Samuel Gompers
AFL
Haymarket Square
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Eugene Debs
Impact of Strikes
Impact of Unions
1. Describe the impact that the Bessemer process had on the spread of industry.
2. Describe the process of Taylorism and the impact of scientific management.
3. Describe the impact that the expansion of railroads had on the United States.
4. Who were the best known railroad tycoons?
5. What did the laws of incorporation allow for?
6. Describe the difference between horizontal and vertical integration.
7. Explain what a trust is.
8. Describe what a holding company is.
9. Describe the corruption found in the rise to power and prominence of the tycoons.
10. Why did many industrialists seize on the theory of Social Darwinism?
11. Describe the ideas found in Andrew Carnegie’s book the Gospel of Wealth.
12. Describe the dangers of monopolies.
13. Describe the two different sources of migration that contributed to the labor force.
14. Describe the shift in immigration patterns that created a new source of immigration.
15. Why did the hiring of women and children as factory workers increase?
16. Explain why child labor laws had a limited impact.
17. The Great Railroad Strike
When:
Why:
What happened?
How did it end?
What did it demonstrate?
18. Describe the differences between the Knights of Labor and the AFL.
19. Haymarket Square
When:
Where:
Who:
Why:
How was it viewed by middle class Americans?
20. Homestead Strike
Who:
When:
Where:
Why:
How did it end?
Impact on the union:
21. Pullman Strike
Who:
When:
Where:
Why:
How did it end?
22. Explain why workers failed to make greater gains.
The Age of the City
The Gilded Age
1850s-1900’s
Important Terms, People, and Ideas
Urban Growth
Migrations
Ethnic communities
Americanization
Nativism
Xenophobia
Tenements
Jacob Riis
Urban transportation
Problems of City life
Political Machines
Urban boss
Graft and corruption
The Birth of a Nation
Importance of Saloons
Darwinism
23. Explain the different reasons people moved to the cities.
24. Describe the difference between the old immigrants and the new immigrants.
25. Describe what an ethnic neighborhood is and the reasons why they were formed.
26. How did Native born Americans encourage assimilation of immigrants?
27. Why did Nativism rise with the rising immigration?
28. Describe the anti-immigration groups that formed and what their platforms were.
29. Why did immigration restrictions have limited success?
30. Describe the evolution of the tenement.
31. Who was Jacob Riis and what did he do?
32. What type of improvements were made in public transportation?
33. Create an outline for the section titled Strains of Urban Life and write it on the back of this page.
34. Describe the impact the saloon had on urban life.
35. Describe the schism that developed due to the belief in the theory of Darwinism.