Name _______________________________________________
Hour _______
Unit 1 Notes: A Growing Nation
Chapter 14: An Industrial Nation
I. Big Business
 Corporations – ________________________________________________________________________
 Entrepreneurs – people who take risks & organize new businesses
 Capitalism – __________________________________________________________________________
 Laissez Fairre – _______________________________________________________________________
 Patent – exclusive right to manufacture or sell an invention
II. Age of Steel
 ___________________________ - improved efficiency of steel production
 Railroads grew fast – steel had to keep up w/ demand
III. Monopolies and Trusts
 _________________ - characterized by a __________________________________________________
- Goal is to __________________________________________________________________________
- Achieved by ________________________________________________________________________
 ____________ – ____________________________ under a Board of Trustees ______________________
IV. Robber Barons
 Powerful ______________________________________________________________________________
- Used _______________________________________________ such as ____________________
 ____________________ - 1873 _________________________________; focused on ________________
- By 1900, _______________________________________________________________________
- ________________ integration: _____________________________________________________
 ____________________ - formed _________________________ (refined oil) - controlled _____________
- _________________ integration: ____________________________________________________
V. Social Darwinism (SD)
 SD - idea that “________________________________” detemines ________________________________
 Social Darwinism and capitalists agree that _________________________________________
VI. Labor Unions
 Advantages of unions - ____________________________ (______________________________________)
 ____________________________ - welcomed ________________________________________________
 ________________________________ - represented____________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________________
- Negiotated for ____________________________________________________
VII. Strikes
 ____________________________ (Chicago, IL 1886) - strikers clashed w/ police: several killed, 100's hurt
- Significance: ________________________________________________________________
 ____________________________ – wages were cut and workers went on strike
- Significance: _________________________________________________________________
 ____________________________ - Pullman Palace Car Co. (Chicago) cut wages but did not reduce rent
- ______________________ in US history ___________________________________________
- Significance: __________________________________________________________________
***________________________________________________________________ in late 19th century***
VIII. Industry
 Advantages of US in world market - Raw materials, expanding markets & _________________________
 Growth of manufacturing - __________________________, investment capital and _________________
 ____________________________________________________________________________________
IX. Frederick Olmsted
 _______________________ - __________________________ (Manhattan) and Prospect Park (Brooklyn)
- also _______________________________________________________________ and Stanford
Chapter 15-16: Progressive Reform
I. Progressivism
 ___________________________________________________________________________________
 Main issues were _____________________________________________
 Most reformers were _________________________________________ in cities
- improve ______________________________________________
- ______________________________ and ___________________________________________
 Muckrakers ___________________________________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________ exposed _________________________________
- How the Other Half Lived by _____________________________________________
- ________________________________________ by Ida Tarbell
- detailed ___________________________________________ which led to govt. regulations
 Urban reform
- major ______________________________________________________________________
- ___________________________________________________________________________
II. Immigrants
 _______________________________________________________ - _______________________(16 mil)
 Primarily ____________________________________________________________
 Took _______________________________________________________________
 Predominant religion - Catholics
 Benefits to immigration - Economic boom, social/cultural growth & political growth
 Unlimited ______________________________________________________________- wages went down
 Result of ______________________________ - ______________________________________
 ____________________ had immigrants who arrived from _______________________________________
 Many Chinese immigrants were detained in prison-like conditions - ________________________________
III. Improving Democracy
 Elections – ballots were fixed to improve integrity of the vote
 Amendments
16th – Congress could levy individual ___________________________________
17th – Authorized the ________________________________________________
18th – ____________________________________________________________
19th – ____________________________________________________________
 Reforms at the state level
_______________: voters can propose new laws with enough signatures
_______________: voters can remove an elected official from office
- AZ originally denied statehood over the issue of ____________________________________
_______________: citizens can approve new laws with a vote
*____________________________________________________________________________
IV. Reforming Society
 _________________________ – childhood education / teaching methods
 ____________________________ – founder of the _____________________________________
- united local medical org.
- designed to _________________________________
 Susan Blow – opened the _____________________________________________
 ________________________________ – protected the youth
V. Progressive Women
 Dr. Edward Clark, Harvard Medical School study
- women couldn’t take physical & mental strain of thinking
 _________________________________ - __________________________________________________
- started in Hillsboro, OH; 1000’s saloons closed (Carry Nation)
- ______________________________________________________________________________
 Suffrage - _______________________________________
- opposed by big business and political bosses
- gave ____________________________________________________________
- NAWSA: led by ____________________________________________________________
- ____________________________ mobilized 1 million
- ____________________________ used picketing, hunger strikes and civil disobedience
* ____________________________________________________________
VI. African American Reforms
 Booker T. Washington – ________________________________________________________________
 W.E.B. Du Bois founded ________________________________________________________________
- fought _______________________________________
- refused to accept ______________________________________________________________________
 _____________________________ - founded the UNIA
- Blacks ______________________________________________________________________________
- reverse segregation
 ___________________________ – crusade against ________________
VII. Ignored in Reforms
 Native Americans
- ___________________________: ______________________________________________________
- resulted in ________________________________
- 1890: only 250,000 left in US
 Mexican Americans – _____________________________________(San Antonio, El Paso, Los Angeles)
- endured _______________________________________
 Chinese Americans - ______________________________________________________________
- ______________________________________________________________________________
- ______________________________________________________________________________
VIII. The Populist Party
 Proposed _____________________________________________________________________________
 High point of _______________________________________
 Platform reflected the need for _____________________________________________________________
 ________________________ - _________________________________ due to crash of Philadelphia RR
-_______________________________________________; millions were unemployed
- 700,000 strike for better wages
-__________________________________________: caused gold drain
- govt. sold bonds to increase gold supply
IX. Election of 1896
________________________
vs.
____________________________
- against free coinage
- ____________________________________
- carried Midwest & Northeast
- carried South and West
- __________________
- ____________________________________
X. Progressive Presidents
 __________________________ – ____________________
- ____________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________
- _____________________________________________________
- ____________________________________________________
- 1906 ____________________________________________________
> __________________________________________________
 __________________________ – started __________________________
- ____________________________________________________
- ___________________________________ – __________________________
-_________________________________________________– fair trade
Chapter 17: Entering the World Stage
I. Imperialism
 Extending a nation’s power by ________________________________________________________
- required _____________________________________________________________________
 ____________________: ________________________________________________________
 1870 to 1914: _________________________________________________________________
-______________: __________________________________________
 America ____________________________________________________________________________
 Factors that contributed to wave of imperialism:
- ________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________
- ________________________________________________________
II. Isolationism
 ______________________________________________________________________
 ________________________________________________________
- Farewell Address: “_____________________________________________________"
- U.S. had followed this mandate
 _____________________________________________________________________
III. Expansion
 __________________________ - strong ___________________________________
- wrote, _________________________________________________________
- supported ____________________________________________________
- supported _______________________________________
- supported _______________________________________
 Secretary of State _______________________________
- _____________________________________________ - $7.2 million in 1867 (.02/acre)
- acquired _______________________ - ______________________________
- acquired ______________________________
 Hawaii
-______________________________________: duty-free agreement
- no privileges to any other nation
- sugar prices fell and ______________________________________________
- _____________________________, aided by Marines, _______________________________________
 _____________________________________________________________________________________
IV. Open Door Policy
 ___________________________________________________________________________
 Protected _____________________________________________
 No response from Japan or Euro nations
 ________________________________________
- seized the opportunity
- announced that _____________________________________________
 ______________________________ - 1900
- ____________________________________________________________
- more than 200 killed
- ____________________________________________________________
- ___________________________________________________________________________
V. Spanish-American War
 __________________________ - events in Cuba
- _____________________________________________
- ______________________________ sent to squash rebellion
> _____________________________________________ - 100,000 + died
> _____________________________________________
- ______________________________________________________________
> _____________________________________________
 Yellow Journalism - ________________________________________________________
- helped _____________________________________________
- NY newspapers: _________________________________________________________________
 "_________________________________"
- U.S.S. Maine sent to protect citizens and economic interests
- 2/15/1898: ____________________________________________________________
-______________________________________________________________________
- became _____________________________________________
- ______________________________________________________________________
 Battles of the Spanish-American War
- ____________________________: John Dewey 381-Spain 0
- __________________________________________
- __________________________________________ - ________________________
- ____________________________: ________________________________________
- victories in the Caribbean
- _____________________ - ________________________ - _________________
- more soldiers died from disease and food poisoning than fighting
 Peace Treaty - ________________________________________________________________________
*________________________________________________________ *
 Results of the Spanish-American War
- US gained ____________________________________________________
- war cost $250 million
- ____________________ in four months
VII. Panama Canal
 ____________________________
- signed treaty to __________________________________________
 President Roosevelt
- supported _________________________________________________________________
- ______________________________________________________________________
- encouraged_________________________________________________________________
 New govt. established
- ________________________________________________________
 Obstacles – 11 years to complete (1903-14)
- ____________________________
- _______________________________________
- ____________________________
- _______________________________________
VIII. Foreign Policy
 Roosevelt Corollary
- ________________________________________________________
- US was ______________________________________________________________________
- “________________________________________________________”
 President Wilson
- moral obligation to ____________________________
- _________________________________________________________________
- wanted ____________________________________________