People
The names of at least three industrialists.
Who were Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockerfeller, J.P. Morgan, Henry Ford, and /or Cornelius Vanderbilt?
Gave African American men the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Where the supply chain of a company is owned by that company. For example, Carnegie bought out his suppliers (coal fields, iron mines, ore freighters, and rail lines) in order to control materials and transportation.
What is Vertical Integration?
Based on the cartoon, which conclusion can be made about the United States in the early 1900s?
A. The government assumed an active role in suppressing social activists.
B. The government assumed an active role in legislating social reform.
C. Business monopolies controlled the means of production.
D. Business owners monitored the activities of laborers.
B. The government is seeking to end child labor with compulsive education laws
Describe this map
African Americans and white abolitionists developed a secret network of people who would hide fugitive slaves. It was called the underground railroad.
It ran south as well as north. For slaves in Texas, refuge in Canada must have seemed impossibly far away. Fortunately, slavery was also illegal in Mexico.
Fugitive slaves got to Mexico in many different ways. Some went on foot, while others rode horses or snuck aboard ferries bound for Mexican ports.
Abolitionist man who claimed God told him to kill pro-slavery Border Ruffians, and to liberate slaves.
Who was John Brown?
Gave women the right to vote
What is the 19th Amendment?
An armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne, and Arapaho tribes and the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the United States Army. The battle, which resulted in the defeat of US forces, was the most significant action of the Great Sioux War.
What is the Battle of Little Bighorn?
Describe this political cartoon.
Who is it about? Where / when is it focused on? What is the main idea?
Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall control New York City. It's "under the thumb" of Tweed.
Describe this map
This is an 1860 election map. Republicans nominated Abe Lincoln while the Democrats split. Lincoln won the 1860 election with less than half the popular vote and no Southern electoral votes
Member of the Settlement House movement, and founder of the Hull House
Prohibited the sale and consumption of alcohol
What is the 18th amendment?
Describe the difference between a "robber barron" and a "captain of industry"
“Captains of industry” adopted new technologies and took advantage of new forms of corporate organization to make cheaper and better products.
“Robber barons” exploited workers, used dishonest tactics, and exercised their monopoly control over industries to overcharge the public.
Describe this political cartoon.
What is it about? Where / when is it focused on? What is the main idea, or concept illustrated?
This cartoon is about manifest destiny during the mid 1800s when America felt entitled to expand to the Pacific Ocean because it was God's will to bring freedom and progress.
Describe this map
The Northern strategy going into the war included:
•The Anaconda Plan:
–A naval blockade
–A plan to split the Confederacy by going down the Mississippi River
–Capturing the Confederate capital city of Richmond, Virginia
Former Populist who ran for President a few times; known for his famous "Cross of Gold" speech.
Who is William Jennings Bryan?
Established the graduated income tax
What is the 16th Amendment?
•1862 – Congress passed _____ which allowed 160 free acres to any “head of household” for only $10 fee. But you had to stay on the land for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
The Populist Party was failing because too many different groups had joined together as a party of patches. They were not united.
Describe this map.
Without land of their own, African Americans could not grow their own crops. Many became sharecroppers– a system be which families were given a small plot of land to work in exchange for some of the crops. This took place in the deep south where there were previously many slave plantations.
Radical Republican member of Congress during the Civil War and Reconstruction who wanted to help freedmen as much as possible.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens?
Implemented the direct election of senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
The Compromise of 1877
The Southern Democrats in Congress agreed to authorize the disputed electoral votes for the Republican Hayes in exchange for:
1.Federal troops leaving the South
2.The financing of “internal improvements” in the southern states.
3.The federal government backing off enforcing civil rights legislation and the 14th amendment.
Describe this political cartoon.
What is it about? Where / when is it focused on? What is the main idea, or concept illustrated?
Carpetbaggers and soldiers were weighing down the solid south until the compromise of 1877 ended this.
What and when does this map illustrate?
The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad in 1869