U.S History Period 6 Exam

The taking over of all the different businesses on which a company relied for its primary function

vertical integration

1876

Battle of Little Bighorn

1890

Battle of Wounded Knee

saw close to 10,000 Filipinos die in the conflict.

Beginning in 1898, the American war in the Philippines

1895

Boston opens the first subway in America

1900

Boxer Rebellion

A 1900 Uprising in China aimed at ending foreign influence in the country.

Boxer Rebellion

1896

Bryan delivers the "cross of Gold" speech

consisted mostly of forgein born immigrants and their children

By 1890, populations in the biggest urban areas

southern and eastern Europe.

By the 1890s, the largest number of immigrants to the United States came from

American policy of seeking equal trade and investment opportunities in foreign nations or regions

Open Door

American farmers protested as the result of government economic decline and obsolescence.

Populism

1877

Railroad workers strike nationwide

1890

Sherman Antitrust Act Passed

built in Ny 1850. Multiple Family rental building.

Tenements

were directed to imperial powers in Europe and Asia.

The "Open Door notes"

The creation of Indian reservations that allowed the government to force tribes into scattered locations, often with land unfitted for agriculture

Concentration Policy

1882

Congress Passes First Chinese Exclusion Act

April 25, 1898

Congress declares war on Spain

1882

Congress restricts Chinese immigration

The act passed with the intent to assimilate Native Americans into mainstream of American life

Dawes Severalty Act

reported on the living conditions of the urban poor to encourage improvements

In the 1890s, Jacob Riis

campaigned largely from his house

In the campaign of 1896, William McKinley

they were not fit to survive in the market.

In the late nineteenth century, Social Darwinists argued that people who failed economically in the United States did so because

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, due to the growth of industrial capitalism, American workers

formed close-knit ethnic communities within cities

In the late nineteenth century, many immigrants to the United States

the total failure of state and federal governments to pass legislation that would protect the rights of workers.

In the late nineteenth century, organized labor failed to make great gains for all of the following reasons EXCEPT

All these answers are correct.

In the late nineteenth century, the popular image of the American West

reduce the costs of city services.

In the late nineteenth century, urban political bosses did all of the following EXCEPT

steel

In what industry did the Homestead strike of 1892 occur?

Established the Standard Oil Company, the greatest, wisest, and meanest monopoly known in history

John D. Rockefeller

the rich had great responsibilities to society.

According to the ideas expressed by Andrew Carnegie in his The Gospel of Wealth,

central figure of steel production. Started in 1873 in Pittsburg

Andrew Carnegie

contended that all nations were engaged in a constant struggle to survive

Arguments used by Social Darwinists in the United States to justify expansionism

1873

Carnegie Steel founded

1859

Central Park (NYC) opens

revolved around powerful organizations. usually formed by people from a clan or Community in china.

Chinatowns

colonialism could bring us to war with other nations.

Criticisms within the United States regarding American colonialism included all the following major arguments EXCEPT that

often lacked any access to the outside world

During the late nineteenth century, Plains farm life

1869

First Transcontinental Railroad Completed

The last effort of Native Americans to resist US domination and drive whites from their ancestral lands, came through as a religious movement.

Ghost Dance Movement

1899

Hay releases "Open Door notes"

1886

Haymarket Square Bombing

permitted settlers to buy 160 acres of land to imp[rove in 5 years

Homestead Act

1862

Homestead Act Passed

combining many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation

Horizontal Integration

Some joined unions while others went on strike in protest of low wages. For example, the Pullman strike happened because Mr. Pullman himself forced workers to rent apartments while paying them less money. They couldn't afford their new apartments with the pay they received.

How did workers respond to the expansion of industrialization and the new industrial economy

that the end of the "frontier" also marked the end of one of the most important democratizing forces in American life.

In "The Significance of the Frontier in American History," Frederick Jackson Turner claimed

the U.S. Seventh Cavalry massacred more than 300 Indians.

In 1890 at Wounded Knee, South Dakota,

laborers could expect to work at least ten hours a day, six days a week.

In 1900, regarding work conditions in American factories,

emphasized the value of personal character in business.

In his books, Horatio Alger

assigned all tribes to their own defined reservations.

In the 1850s, the U.S. policy of "concentration" for Indians

A Danish immigrant, he became a reporter who pointed out the terrible conditions of the tenement houses

Jacob Riis

1890

Jacob Riis publishes How the Other Half Lives

they worked for lower wages than what whites would accept.

The Chinese from California became the major source of labor for the transcontinental railroad in part because

Was designed to force Indians to become landowners and farmers

The Dawes Act of 1887

cut wages by twenty-five percent due to a slumping economy.

The Pullman strike of 1894 began when George Pullman, owner of the company,

resulted in the conviction and execution of several anarchists.

The Haymarket Square riot of 1886

triggered the nation's most severe depression up to that point

The Panic of 1893

Cuba

The Spanish-American War began primarily because of events in

transferred the Philippines and Puerto Rico to the United States

The Treaty of Paris concluding the Spanish-American War

was relatively inactive

Throughout the late 19th century, the federal government

1906

Upton Sinclair publishes The Jungle

Both Vertical and Horizontal integration helped improve trade and services and increase consumer purchasing power in member nations. Cars, electricity, mortgage bank, oil, and technology changed the US and the world. America changed in lifestyle and quality of living.

What changes took place (provide at least two) in corporate organization in the late 19th century, and how did these changes affect the nation's economy?

America's Industrial expanded due to Technology changes. Steel production drove the economy as new inventions were based off steal. Social changes also helped with the Expansion by allowing workers to join Unions to protect themselves from any injuries.

What factors (provide 3-4) drove America's industrial expansion in the late 19th and early 20th centuries?

journalism that is based upon sensationalism and crude exaggeration.

Yellow Journalism

Those who were for argued that the U.s had a democratic government and so moving in or trying to control another country's economy would go against that. Those who argued against saw the U.s as inferior above other countries/races. They also said that it violated republicanism.

What were the main arguments of those who supported U.S. imperialism and those who opposed the nation's imperial ambitions and efforts (provide two for each)?

U.S. Army soldiers were well-equipped and supplied

Which of the following statements regarding the Spanish-American War is FALSE?

United States lawyer and politician who advocated free silver and prosecuted John Scopes (1925) for teaching evolution in a Tennessee high school (1860-1925)

William Jennings Bryan

25th president responsible for Spanish-American War, Philippine-American War, and the Annexation of Hawaii, imperialism. Is assassinated by an anarchist

William McKinley

1874

Workers strike against the Pullman Company

1892

Workers strike at the Homestead plant