Unit 7: Migration and Industrialization Test

Unit 7: Migration and Industrialization (The Gilded Age)
Test Guide Ch. 13, 14, 15, 16

The New West:

-        Western stereotypes; why?

-        Push factors that forced people to move west

-        Pull factors that attracted people to move west

-        Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis

-        What is meant by American Exceptionalism

-        At what year is the frontier “closed”? Where does American look next?

-        Define assimilation

-        Purpose of the U.S. Indian Training and Industrial School

-        Dawes Act

-        Impact of the transcontinental railroad

Industrialization:

-        The Bessemer Process

-        Andrew Carnegie

-        John Rockefeller

-        Vertical Consolidation

-        Horizontal Consolidation

-        Social Darwinism and Gospel of Wealth

-        Robber Barons and Captains of Industry 

-        JP Morgan

-        Free Enterprise System

-        Sherman Anti-Trust Act

-        Arguments for and against big business

-        Labor Unrest

o   Knights of Labor- Terrence Powderly

o   American Federation of Labor- Samuel Gompers

o   Tools of workers and management

o   Haymarket riot

Politics of the Gilded Age

-        The Grant administration

-        Boss William Tweed

-        Supporters of Republicans and Democrats

-        Jim Crow Laws; Plessy v Ferguson

-        Gold vs Silver debate

-        William Jennings Bryan (Cross of Gold)

-        The Populist Party

-        William McKinley

Immigrants and Urbanization

-        Push factors

-        “Old” immigrants vs “New” immigrants

-        Acculturation

-        Ghettos

-        Nativists; Chinese Exclusion Act

-        Italian immigrants and Scandinavian immigrants

-        Tenements

-        Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives

-        Tragedy at Triangle Shirtwaist Factory