Recap Period 6
Chapters 16, 17, 18, and
beginning of 19
General Rules for essays
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You need a thesis
Use past tense
You need a conclusion with synthesis
You must ATFQ- and follow directions
You can’t provide too much detail
Avoid generalizations and pithy
statements (and America was great
after that…)
Indian Wars
• What similarities and differences are
there between the Apache (Geronimo),
Cheyenne (Sand Creek), and the Sioux
(Lakota at Wounded Knee)?
• Where did Native Americans have a
great success against the federal
government?
The Closing of the Frontier
• What was the Turner Thesis
Indian Wars and Reservations
• What were some important treaties and
policies with Native Americans?
• What were some long term results of
these treaties and policies?
• Who supported assimilation policies?
Farmers
• What drove the changes in agriculture in this
period?
• What economic and social ills plagued
American farmers and laborers at the turn of
the century?
• What groups led up to the Populists?
The Economy
• What was the political climate during the
depression of 1893?
• What was Coxey’s Army and what were its
goals?
• What was the People’s Party platform and
who were their supporters?
• What were the important issues of the
election of 1896?
Immigration to the West
• How diverse was the west?
• What were some of the challenges
people of diverse backgrounds faced?
Labor Unions
• Long term result of Great RR Strike?
• Long term result of Chicago Haymarket
Riot?
• Difference between AFL and Knights?
• What is the accepted response to
strikes?
• What does the Supreme Court think?
Event
Homestead
Cripple Creek
Pullman
Reason
No contract Hours: 8-10 Low wages,
to Union
union
busting
Method
Lockout,
Scabs and
Pinkertons
Strike
Strike and
boycott
Outcome
First
success,
then not
Success,
then not
No success
Supporters
At first
people
Detractors
Gov’t,
people
Governor,
All rail union
unions, bus. and gov.
Debs.
Mine
Courts, RR
owners
owners, AG
What were they famous for?
Jay Gould
John D. Rockefeller
Andrew Carnegie
JP Morgan
Robber Barons or Captains of
Industry?
• Robbers
• Consolidation of
Corporations into trusts
creates unequal distribution
of wealth
• Unsupportive of labor unions
and their needs
• Creation of Company towns
• Questionable business
practices (use of thugs,
undercutting, etc.)
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Horizontal and vertical
integration very
efficient.
Developed modern
industries.
Gave money away.
Created prominent
business culture we
enjoy today.
Robber Barons continued
• What was a trust?
• How did they use vertical and horizontal
integration?
• Who was Ida M. Tarbell?
• Laissez-Faire? Social Gospel? Social
Darwinism?
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Economics
What economic issues defined the
Gilded Age?
• The New South?
• What was the government’s shifting
policy on trust and railroad regulation?
• What was the fight for free silver, and
how did that fight lead to political
realignment?
Politics
• Why did the Republican Party divide
into factions?
• What was the spoils system and how
was it cleaned up?
• What role did scandal play in the
election of 1884?
African Americans
• Ida B. Wells, What
was she famous
for?
• What was the
condition of African
Americans at this
time?
• Who is working to
improve their
situation?
Women Workers
• What sort of work were women doing?
• How were race and class important?
• How did the adding machine, typewriter
and cash register lead to more women
workers?
• In what types of reform did American
women engage during the last decade
of the nineteenth century?
New Vs. Old Immigration
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Where from?
Religious background?
Why come? Why stop?
Skilled or unskilled?
Did they face discrimination?
Immigrants in the City
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Check out our worksheet.
Remember what a tenement is?
Is anyone trying to help immigrants?
Who is trying to limit their numbers?
Tenements
• Old buildings left
behind by NY elites
• Filled with urban
poor
• No regulations
• Limited running
water
• None or limited
plumbing
Political Machines
• “Boss” William Tweed
• Tammany Hall, NYC
• Gave gifts for votes, would help for
votes