APUSH – Chapter 24: Industry Comes of Age
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The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse/Spanning the Continent with Rails/Revolution by
Railways
Identify: Pacific Railway Act, 1862
The ______________ was commissioned by congress to construct the Trans-Continental railroad
starting at Omaha, Nebraska and worked westward. The _______________ was commissioned
by congress to construct the Trans-Continental railroad starting at Sacramento, California and
worked eastward.
The Transcontinental Railroad was completed in the year___________.
The textbook authors contend that “more than any other single factor, the railroad network
spurred the amazing industrialization of the post-Civil War years.” Do you agree? Why or why
not?
Discuss the impact the Railroad industry had on time.
Identify: the Interstate Commerce Commission
Miracles of Mechanization/Trust Titan Emerges/Carnegie & Other Sultans of Steel
Who invented the telephone? What impact did the invention have on American Society?
Who is considered the “most versatile inventor” of the late 19th century? Why?
Identify: vertical integration
Identify: horizontal integration
Identify: Bessemer Process
Identify: J.P. Morgan
Rockefeller Grows an American Beauty Rose/ The Gospel of Wealth Government Tackles
the Trust Evil
In your own words, describe John D. Rockefeller’s business tactics. Do you agree or disagree
with his methods?
Identify: gospel of wealth
Identify: social Darwinism
Identify: Sherman Anti-Trust Act, 1890
The Impact of the New Industrial Revolution on America
Which group was most affected by the industrial revolution in the U.S.? Why?
What did the image of the Gibson Girl represent? (see pages 548-550)
Chapter 25: America Moves to the Big City, 1865-1900
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The Urban Frontier /The New Immigration/Southern Europe Uprooted
1. Identify the second largest city in the world by 1900.
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2. What year was the first skyscraper built? Where? What invention facilitated its design &
construction?
3. What amenities made “ big city life” alluring to people?
4. Identify: dumbbell tenement
5. Where did the “new immigrants “come from?
6. How many Europeans left the “old continent in the 19th and early 20th century? How
many of them moved to the U.S.?
7. Why did immigrants want to move to the U.S.?
Reactions to New Immigration/Narrowing the Welcome Mat
8. What services did city “bosses” provide for newly arrived immigrants?
9. Identify: Jane Addams
10. What services did Hull House provide?
11. What was the purpose of settlement houses?
12. Identify: nativism
13. What year was the Statue of Liberty erected on New York Harbor? How did the U.S.
acquire the statue?
The Lust for Learning/ Booker T. Washington & Education/ The Hallowed Halls of Ivy
14. What factors caused the illiteracy rate to fall between 1870 and 1900?
15. Why did the south “lag” behind the rest of the country in education?
16. Identify: Booker T. Washington
17. Identify: George Washington Carver
18. Identify: W.E.B. Du Bois
19. What factors allowed for the construction of colleges and universities after the Civil
War?