Unit 3-New Frontiers (Chapter 7) Each part is worth 3 points, there will be a quiz on each part.

 

 

Part 1- Use Chapter 07, section 01 to answer the following questions.     

Section 01

 

1.           How did the Homestead Act of 1862 affect westward expansion?

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.           Why did cowhands and cattle reign supreme on the Great Plains following the Civil War?

 

 

 

 

 

 

3.           What became California's most valuable asset in the late 1800s?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4.           How did the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada affect the building of the transcontinental railroad?

 

 

 

 

 

 

5.           What impact did sending Native Americans to government-run boarding schools have?

 

 

 

 

 

Part 2- Use Chapter 07, section 02 to answer the following questions

Section 02

 

6.           What impact did inventions and entrepreneurial skills have on consumer goods by the late 1800s?

 

 

 

 

 

 

7.           What contributed to the rise of the meatpacking industry in the late 1800s (list all that apply)?

 

 

 

 

 

 

8.           How did the McCormick Harvesting Machine Company create a national market?

 

 

 

 

9.           What problem did combining competing firms solve?

 

 

 

 

10.        How did Carnegie vertically integrate the steel industry?

 

 

 

 

 

11.        know the definitions and be able to pick out examples of the following terms

a.     horizontal integration (p209)-

 

 

b.    vertical integration (p209)-

 

 

c.     national market (p206)

 

 

d.    merger (p208)-

 

 

e.     industrialism (p205)- 

 

 

 

Part 3- Use Chapter 07, section 03 to answer the following questions

Section 03

 

12.        What did the Populist party grow out of?  What movement?

 

 

 

13.        Who were the Grangers?  How did the Grangers ease the farmers' plight?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

14.        What major problem stuck the U.S. shortly after the election of 1892?

 

 

 

 

15.        Most early labor unions were short-lived because of what reason?

 

 

 

 

16.        Why did workers hold a strike at the McCormick Harvester reaper factory in Chicago in 1886?

 

 

 

 

17.        know the definitions and be able to pick out examples of the following terms

a.     union (p215)-

 

 

b.    strike (p215)-

 

 

c.     injunction (p217)-

 

 

 

 

Part 4- Use Chapter 07, section 04 to answer the following questions

Section 04

 

18.        What was President James Monroe's message to the European powers in 1823? (hint: it became known as the Monroe Doctrine?)

 

 

 

 

19.        Where did the United States find new economic markets in the mid- to late-1800s?

 

 

 

 

20.        Why did William Seward's purchase of Alaska in 1867 prove to be a bargain?

 

 

 

 

21.        List the reasons why many Americans supported the Cuban fight for independence from Spain in the 1800s?

 

 

 

22.        What impact did freeing the Philippines from Spanish control have on U.S. business interests?

 

 

 

 

23.        Who are the Rough Riders?  Why are they important? p218

 

 

 

24.        What were the two primary locations of the Spanish American War? p223

 

 

 

 

25.        know the definitions and be able to pick out examples of the following terms

a.     expansionism (P219) –

 

 

b.    manifest destiny (P219) –

 

 

 

 

c.     armistice (p222)-

 

 

 

 

 

Part 5     Use the readings that have been read and or the page numbers provided below to answer the questions.  All questions are to be answered.  This is a 5 point homework assignment.  There will be a quiz in class the day it is due.

Who did each of the following things?

1.        Who rose from poverty to riches by improving steel production; his steel company eventually became U.S. Steel?  p204 & 209

2.        Who invented the electric light bulb and devised an efficient system for distributing electric power across the country?  p205-206

3.        Who  resisted United States control of Hawaii but lost power in a rebellion by sugar planters? p221

4.        Who  worked as a union organizer for the Knights of Labor and later for the United Mine Workers? p 215

5.        Who based his philosophy of human behavior, called social Darwinism, on Darwin's theory of survival of the fittest? p210

6.        Who supported the idea of "free silver" and in 1896 ran for President as the candidate of both the Democrats and the Populists? Reading biography

7.        Who founded the American Federation of Labor? Reading biography & p216

8.        Who started Standard Oil, took over many other oil refineries, and eventually had a monopoly on the nation's oil supplies? p208-209

9.        Who founded the American Railway Union and led one of the first major labor actions, against the Pullman Sleeping Car Company? p216-217

10.     Who was sent by Napoleon III to rule Mexico, but lost his French troops when the United States threatened war, citing the Monroe Doctrine? p220

11.     Who leader of the Nez Perce; was forced from his land; did all in his power to care for his followers? Reading biography

12.     Which women’s suffragist campaigned for Populist candidates who represented thousands of struggling farmers? Reading biography

13.     Who head of the women’s department of the Knights of Labor? Reading biography? Reading biography

14.     Who dedicated his career to “scientific management”, trying to make manual labor more efficient ? reading biography &

15.     Who successfully argued that Arizona & New Mexico should be entered into the Union as separate states; governor of New Mexico Territory? Reading biography

 

Part 6 – make a brief outline for how you would answer this question

Open Ended               

 

Identify what the theory of Social Darwinism as proposed by Herbert Spencer was (5 points).  Go on to explain why you agree or disagree with this theory.  You must cite some specific reasons within your explanation.  (hint: your reasons can include modern ideas or references.) (5 points)