Ch. 13 and 14
Ch. 13 Changes on the Western Frontier
- Transcontinental RR- effects on industry
- Homestead Act
- Stereotypes of the West- why did they develop?
- Push factors that forced settlers to the West
- Pull factors that attracted settlers to the West
- Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
- The last frontier- when was the frontier "discovered"- how does manifest destiny fit with this idea?
- How did land ownership differ between Americans and Native Americans?
- Define assimilation and explain two attempts to assimilate Native Americans. Be specific.
Ch. 14 A New Industrial Age
- Identify Edwin Drake
- Impact of the Bessemer process
- New towns from the railroad
- Identify George Pullman; explain his factory town
- Identify problems with the railroads
- Credit Mobilier scandal
- The Grange response to the rr's
- Munn v Illinois and the Interstate Commerce Act
- The role of JP Morgan's investment company
- Andrew Carnegie's steel business
- vertical consolidation
- Gospel of Wealth
- Philanthropy
- Social Darwinism
- John Rockefeller's oil business
- horizontal consolidation
- Arguments for "robber barons" or "captains of industry"
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Why did labor unions emerge in the late 1800s?
- Samuel Gompers and the AFL
- Eugene Debs; socialism
- Great Strike of 1877
- Haymarket Affair
- Homestead Strike
- Pullman Strike
- Employer response to unions? Growth of unions in the early 20th century
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