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100
What was the key innovation that lead to the 2nd industrialization?
Electricity
100
True/False: Historical Eras are specific to a region or country.
True
100
True/False: The railroad lead to a shortage of raw materials in the US.
FALSE
100
True/False: Historical Eras have a distinct beginning and end point.
FALSE
100
What effect did barbed wire have on the cattle drive?
Was a factor that contributed to its end.
200
What is the name of Andrew Carnegie's most famous book.
Gospel of Wealth
200
What's the difference between the Homestead Act and the Dawes Act?
Homestead Act dealt with Small Farms Dawes Act dealt with reservations.
200
How did the Homestead Act effect western settlement?
Lead to dramatic rise in settlement.
200
True/False: The government supported big business during the gilded age.
TRUE
200
How did Electricity effect industrialization?
Lead to rapid spread of industrialization.
300
How are prices determined in a Laissez-faire economic system?
Supply and Demand
300
How did the Homestead Act affect Indian relations?
Brought more settlers into close contact with the Indians, leading to a rise in tensions.
300
List the physical (2) and human factors (1) that lead to settlement of Great Plains:
Rich Soil, Steel Plow, Flat lands.
300
What was the Native American view on personal property?
Believed in community property instead of private property.
300
What was the most important scientific breakthrough of the late 1800s:
Electricity
400
What's the difference between the AFL and the CIO?
AFL excluded unskilled workers.
400
What was the First major strike in the US?
The Great Railroad strike of 1877
400
What was the main motivation for the reservation policy towards the Indians?
Make land available for whites
400
Compare/Contrast railroads and steamboats and WHEN they were prominent.
Steamboat, pre civil war Railroads, post civil war
400
Why did holding companies develop? What was there purpose?
to get around laws regarding trusts.
500
What was the main cause of the rise of the middle class?
Economic Growth
500
What was the main cause of the Great Railroad strike of 1877?
Widespread Paycuts
500
What was the Dawes Act, and what did it do?
Divided reservations and gave Indians individual allotments of land. Goal was to Americanize the Indians.
500
Who was the major group that moved into cities (urbanization) in the 1800s?
Recent Immigrants
500
What was the trail of tears? Who ordered it?
Forced westward migration of American Indians, ordered by president Andrew Jackson.
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