APUSH: UNIT 7 OVERVIEW
NATION IN TRANSITION: 1865-1899
TEXT REFERENCES:
KCB: CHAPTERS 23-26
OUR APPROACH TO THIS UNIT WILL BE SOMEWHAT DIFFERENT! Plan to
spend a significant amount of class time reading and studying this period
of time while preparing for your SEMESTER FINAL.
Key Concepts
16. The rise of big business in the United States encouraged massive migrations and urbanization,
sparked government and popular efforts to reshape the US economy and environment, and
renewed debates over US national identity.
17. The emergence of an industrial culture in the United States led to both greater opportunities
for, and restrictions on, immigrants, minorities, and women.
18. The “Gilded Age” witnessed new cultural and intellectual movements in tandem with political
debates over economic and social policies.
UNIT 7 VOCABULARY (for use when dealing with the Turner Project)
CHAPTER 25
CHAPTER 23
CHAPTER 24
“waving the bloody shirt”
Tweed Ring
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Panic of 1873
Gilded Age
patronage
Compromise of 1877
Civil Rights Act of 1875
sharecropping
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Chinese Exclusion Act
Pendleton Act
Homestead Strike
grandfather clause
Wabash, St. Louis and Pacific
RR Co. v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
vertical integration
horizontal integration
trust
Interlocking directorates
Standard Oil Company
Social Darwinists
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Haymarket Square
American Federation of Labor
closed shop
Jay Gould
Horace Greeley
Rutherford B. Hayes
James A. Garfield
Chester Arthur
Grover Cleveland
Thomas B. Reed
Tom Watson
William Jennings Bryan
J.P. Morgan
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Alexander G. Bell
Thomas Alva Edison
Andrew Carnegie
John D. Rockefeller
Samuel Gompers
New Immigrants
settlement houses
liberal Protestants
Tuskegee Institute
land-grant colleges
pragmatism
yellow journalism
National American Women
Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Women’s Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU)
World’s Columbian Exposition
Jane Addams
Charles Darwin
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Joseph Pulitzer
William Randolph Hearst
John Dewey
Horatio Alger
Mark Twain
Carrie Chapman Catt
OUR APPROACH TO UNIT 7
The name of this unit is “Transitional Nation” and we
are also “in transition” to second semester right now.
CHAPTER 26
reservation system
Battle of the Little Bighorn
Battle of Wounded Knee
Dawes Severalty Act
mining industry
Homestead Act
mechanization of agriculture
Populists
Pullman Strike
fourth party system
Gold Standard Act
Frederick Jackson Turner
Jacob S. Coxey
William McKinley
Marcus Alonzo Hanna
RED ALERT!
YOUR FINAL EXAM WILL
INCLUDE 4 SHORT ANSWER
QUESTIONS (SAQs) RELATED
TO THE PERIOD OF 1865-1900,
AND YOUR ANALYSIS OF THE
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS!
BRING YOUR BRAIN WITH YOU!
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