AP U.S. History – Ewald/High
Name: _____________________________________________
The Rise of Industrial America
Four Features of Industrial Manufacturing (1865-1900), see p. 544
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4.
Major Industries
Important People
& Corporations
Railroads
Steel
Innovations –
financial,
technical, &
organizational
Interstate Commerce Act (1887):
Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890):
United States v. E.C. Knight Company (1895):
Major Inventors/Inventions
Alexander Graham Bell:
Thomas Edison:
Hardships of Industrial Labor (identify at least three issues):
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Labor Movements (describe each organization and people/events associated with it)
National Labor Union (NLU):
Knights of Labor:
American Federation of Labor (AFL):
Strikes/Labor Violence (describe each event and outcomes):
Wildcat Railroad Strike (1877):
Haymarket Riot (1886):
Pullman Strike (1894)
Social Philosophy (describe each philosophy and major contributors/written works):
Social Darwinism:
Socialism/Marxism:
Oil
Immigration, Urbanization, and Everyday Life, 1860-1900
Push & Pull Factors for Migration/Immigration – identify and describe at least 3 major points
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Challenges for Immigrants – identify and describe at least 3 major challenges for immigrants
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Middle Class Society and Culture – briefly describe each term with examples as appropriate
Victorian code:
cult of domesticity:
changes in higher education:
Working Class Politics & Reform – briefly describe each term/concept
“Machine” politics:
Tammany Hall:
William Marcy Tweed:
YMCA/YWCA:
Salvation Army:
Social Gospel:
Settlement house movement (Hull House/Jane Addams):
Working-Class Leisure (“low brow”) – identify and describe at least 3 popular pastimes
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Literature, Arts, and Education (“high brow”) – briefly describe each term
“genteel tradition”:
realism/naturalism (Crane, Twain, Dreiser):
modernism (Wright, Homer, Eakins):
the “new woman” (Willard, Gilman, Chopin):
education reform (Harris, Rice, parochial schools):
Politics in the Gilded Age, 1860-1900
Regulating the Money Supply – describe the positions of the following groups (who was on each side?)
“Goldbugs” – hard money, tight credit
“Silverites” – soft money, easy credit
The “Crime” of ‘73 –
demonetizing silver
Bland-Allison Act
(1878)
Sherman Silver
Purchase Act (1890)
Other Reform Efforts – compare Republican vs. Democratic positions
Civil Service Reform Garfield’s assassination (1881):
Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883):
Tariffs
Linkage with budget surplus:
McKinley Tariff (1890):
Pensions
The Populist Movement –
The National Grange
Goals:
“Granger Laws”:
Farmers’ Alliance
Goals:
Populist (People’s) Party (est. 1892):
African-American
challenges
Disenfranchisement (“Jim Crow”):
lynching:
Civil Rights cases (1883):
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896):
Booker T. Washington:
Panic of 1893 – what
happened?
Depression of
1893-97
Economic impact:
Coxey’s Army:
Election of 1896 –
positions on issues?
who won and why?
William J. Bryan (Democrat/Populist):
William McKinley (Republican):