Sunday, October 10, 2010

Homework for Tuesday 10/12

Read Chapter 4 section 1
Complete the following questions on pg 299
1. Define Imperialism and Protectorate
2-4 and 6

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Chapter 3 Test Friday!

Chapter 3 Study Guide - I have given class notes on all 5 sections of chapter 3. Review your notes and reread as you need to.

Placer mining
Homestead Act 1862
Dawes Act
- cycle of boom and bust mining
- impact of the railroad on westward expansion

Pacific Railway Act
Transcontinental railroad
Land Grant System
Robber Barons
Entreprenuers
Corporation
Vertical / Horizontal Integration
Monopoly
Unions
Samuel Gompers
Closed shop

Ellis and Angel Islands
*Problems with rapid urbanization
Political machines

Gilded Age
Social Darwinism
Carnegie / Gospel of Wealth (handout) / Pittsburgh Inferno (handout)
Social Gospel Movement
Americanization
Settlement Houses

Patronage
Pendleton Act
Interstate Commerce Act
Populism
segregation
Poll Tax
Grandfather Clause
Jim Crow
Ida B. Wells
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington