Study Guide USH II FALL 2011
This is just a guide. You must study the
ideas presented in class throughout the
semester.
Study your Vocab and Maps
The Frontier
Mining styles
Different Strikes and discoveries
Boom towns
Ranching
The end of open range
Cowboys
Cattle drives
Cattle Trails
Settling the Great American Desert
Railroad companies
Problems and solutions to the Great
Plains settlers
Closing the Frontier
Buying land out west
Culture of Western Indians
Clashes with Natives
Dakota and Lakota Sioux
Government response to Native
Americans
Major Battles in Indian wars
Assimilation
Custer and Sitting Bull
Ghost Dance
Railroads in United States (Problems,
and successes)
Rise of Big Business
Consolidation of Industry
Laissez- faire
Selling the new products
Unions in the United States
How Mass society was developing
Structure of society
Industrial Unions vs. Trade Unions
Socialism
Communism
Karl Marx
Anarchism
Nativism
Strike Breaker
Major Strikes
Social Justice issues
Immigration
Ellis and Angel Islands
Gilded Age
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
Individualism
Gospel of Wealth
Popular Culture Changes
Ragtime, Hotdogs and Vaudeville
Entertainment in Gilded Age
Rebirth of Nativism
Nativist Legislation
Urban Issues
Tenements
Separation of class
Urban politics
Graft
Political Machines and leaders
Industrialization
Industry in the United States
Why was the US was perfect for
industrialization?
New Inventions
Big Business in the United States
Stanford, Vanderbilt, Carnegie,
Rockefeller
Populism
William Jennings Bryan
Election of 1886
Grover Clevelend
The peoples Party
Gold Bugs and silverites
Grange and Farmer’s Alliance
Segregation
Jim Crow laws
Dejure and De Facto segregation
Exodusters
Response to Repression
American Imperialism
Reasons for imperialism
Latin America and the United States
Spanish American War
Rough Riders
Yellow Journalism
Platt amendment
Roosevelt Corollary
Monroe Docrtrine
Anglo Saxonism
White Man’s Burden
Foraker Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Progressivism
Muckrakers
Pilgrim’s Progress
Who were the muckrakers, their works
and what they wanted.
Progressivism
Progressive movements
Know 3 Progressive presidents, their
acts and their contributions to the
movement
Conservation
Trustbusting
Prohibition
Women’s Suffrage Movement
Income Taxes
LaFollete and the Republicans
Big Stick Diplomacy
Coal Strike 1902