Period 6 Reading Assignment and Guide
Chapters 24-29
Directions: Read and take C-Notes over the chapter assigned. While you are taking notes focus
on defining the bolded terms and people. Be sure to write a 4-5 sentence summary of the
chapter when you are finished. When you finish reading you should be able to answer the
following questions in written or oral form. Notes need to be done by the beginning of class the
day of the quiz.
CHAPTER 24
Industry Comes of Age, 1865–1900
1.
What were the main reasons for the increase in railroad construction? What were some of the
positives and negatives of this revolution?
2.
What were the main principles of the Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism? In what ways did
they attempt to deal with (and justify) the concentration of wealth?
3.
What were some of the main ways in which the government tried to deal with the trusts? How did
the Interstate Commerce Act and the Sherman Anti-Trust Act deal with monopolies? Were they
successful?
4.
What were some of the biggest challenges facing labor in the second half of the nineteenth century?
CHAPTER 25
America Moves to the City, 1865–1900
5.
What were some of the reactions to the New Immigration? How were these immigrants different
from the previous generations of American immigrants?
6.
What were the major challenges faced by the increased urban population?
7.
What were some of the challenges to traditional thought during the second half of the nineteenth
century? How did the religious and secular elements in American society deal with those?
8.
What were some of the major reform movements during the second half of the nineteenth century?
9.
Who were some of the significant artistic and literary figures of the Gilded Age? What contributions
did they make to American society?
CHAPTER 26
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865–1896
10. Describe the clashes between the white population and the Native Americans.
11. Explain how the West “comes of age” and how agriculture becomes a global enterprise.
12. Explain how the growing discontent of farmers transformed into the Populist Party. What were the
main objectives of the populists?
13. Describe the main issues of the Election of 1896. How did McKinley and Bryan each represent the
major issues?
CHAPTER 27
Empire and Expansion, 1890–1909
14. What were the main reasons for America turning outward (i.e., becoming an international or global
power)?
15. Describe the biggest challenges facing America with the acquisition of island territories?
16. Explain the main issues in the election of 1900. What change in focus occurred from the previous
election?
17. What are the main features of Teddy Roosevelt’s Big Stick policy and the Roosevelt Corollary?
18. In what ways did the events in China and Japan force America to take on a more international or
global attitude?
CHAPTER 28
Progressivism and the Republican Roosevelt, 1901–1912
19. What were the roots of the progressive movement in the United States?
20. Describe how the Muller and Lochner cases contributed to or hurt the progressive movement.
21. What were the three C’s of Roosevelt’s political platform? How were these implemented?
22. Explain the differences between Taft and Roosevelt. How did this difference split the Republican
Party in the election of 1912?
23. What was Taft’s dollar diplomacy?
CHAPTER 29
Wilsonian Progressivism in Peace and War, 1913–1920
24. What were the main issues in the election of 1912 and how was Woodrow Wilson a minority
president?
2.
How was Wilson’s foreign policy different from that of Roosevelt and Taft?
3.
What were the circumstances surrounding Wilson’s reelection win in 1916? What major challenges
did the president face as Europe entered World War I?
4.
What were the steps that led America to enter World War I?
5.
After his campaign promise of keeping America out of the war in 1916, how did Wilson garner
American support for the war?
6.
How did America convert from a peacetime economy to a wartime economy?
7.
What were the reasons for the failure of both the League of Nations and the Treaty of Versailles?