APUSH JOCZ Lecture
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JOCZ Lecture Video Questions 1/5/2016
Industrial Revolution
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Why is the industrial revolution a shift in American history?
How does the government help the RR move west and what are the RR impact?
What is the purpose of the ICC?
Explain horizontal and vertical integration. Are there companies today that operate this way?
Explain social Darwinist in terms of your education. How did the gospel of wealth help
Darwinists?
6. How does labor react to unfair business practices by industrial moguls?
7. How did business effect for better or worse the social, political, and economic parts of the
industrial revolution?
Gilded Age politics
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Define the term gilded age.
Who is boss Tweed and what is his importance?
What is a political machine?
What officially ended Reconstruction?
Explain how the government was essential to the failure of reconstruction
What is Laissez Faire
How does politics of the gilded age compare with politics today?
What actions do gilded age presidents to aid big business.
How did business effect for better or for worse the social, political, and economic parts of the
gilded age?
Robber Baron or Captain of Industry (Directions below)
*Click the tab on the JOCS homepage for additional resources. Click the JOCS productions U.S.
history videos. Find #40 (robber barons or captains of industry) and click to watch.
According to the power point and your interpretation and investigation should industrial leaders
during this time period i.e. (Andrew Carnegie, J.D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan) be considered captains of
industry (good) or robber barons (bad)? Explain your answer in at least a paragraph
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JOCZ Lecture Video Questions 1/12/2016
Immigration and Urbanization
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Define Urbanization
What are some of the benefits of living in the city? What are the drawbacks? (Bad things)
What is the significance of political machines and how did they influence politics?
Explain three differences between new and old immigrants?
Why do you think new immigrants are treated more poorly than the old immigrants?
Define Assimilate
What are two pull and two push factors that would cause immigrants to come to the U.S.
TODAY? Where are they coming from TODAY? Do any of the reasons you gave match push and
pull from the video?
Explain the rise of Nativism and how does this show up socially, politically, and economically at
the turn of the century?
What is the quota from a country around the world today to immigrate to the U.S.? (you will
need to search for this)
Explain two responses to urban and immigration problems during this period and what problem
are they attempting to correct?
How is the social gospel the same and different from the “gospel of wealth”?
What leads to society questioning the gap between rich and poor?
What is a positive and negative that Booker T, Washington brings to the African American
movement?
How is Booker T. Washington different from W.E.B. DuBois? Who is more successful in their
goals?
Western Expansion
1. What did the government do to promote people moving to the west? Why would the
government do this?
2. How did the promotion of movement west by the government cause problems?
3. Why were cowboys needed in the west and what finally ends the era of the cowboy?
4. Why is the west romanticized by authors and what is the reality?
5. Why would the west be more “free” for women?
6. What does the government do hurt the plains Indians and what is the native American reaction?
7. Find and explain the origin of the mascots or nicknames of a college in the west? (you will have
to look this up)
8. Explain one of the indian wars and its effects
9. How did the government attempt to assimilate the Indians and why was this unsuccessful?
10. Prove or refute Jackson Turners “Frontier thesis”
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Why do farmers organize?
How is the grange movement and the populist party different and similar?
What is the goal of the populist party? Who does this party exclude
Why would increasing the amount of money help farmers?
What political party uses the ideas of the populists to win the election of 1892
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Review and Study Guide Period 6
Long Essay: Pg. 398 APUSH prep book
Possible Essay Questions