History 12 Study Guide Test 1
The Gilded Age South
1. Post-war Problems
a. Political, economic, social
2. Power Struggle
a. Lincoln’s Plan
b. Johnson’s Plan
c. President vs Congress
3. Congressional Reconstruction
a. Military rule
b. Civil rights
c. Freedmen’s Bureau
4. The Reconstructed South
a. Economy (Sharecropping)
b. Government (Black governments)
c. White Resistance
5. End & Aftermath
a. Election 1876
b. Jim Crow Era
6. Evaluation
The Industrial Revolution
1. Ind. Rev: Overview
a. Definition/description:
b. The US Case
c. The Age of Invention
2. The Rise of Big Business
a. Railroads
b. Steel
c. Oil
3. Big Business’s Impact
a. National Markets
b. RR problems & Combination
c. Corporations & Trusts
4. Consequences of the IR
a. Wealth
b. Inequality
c. Corruption
d. Socialism & Communism
e. Pollution
f. The Business Cycle
5. Workers & Their World
a. Work Conditions
b. The Union Movement
c. NLU/Great Strike
d. KoL/Haymarket Square
The Gilded Age West and North
1) Demographic Impact on the West
a) Settling the West
i) Ranching: The Cattle Boom
ii) Farming: The Land Rush
iii) The Range Wars (1870s-1880s)
b) Indians
i) Plains Indians
ii) The Reservation System
iii) The Plains Wars
iv) “Dishonor” and Assimilation,
again
c) Turner’s Frontier Thesis
2) Demographic Impact on the North
a) Farmers & Migration
b) Immigrants & Immigration
c) Booming Cities
d) Urbanization Plus and Minus
e) Immigration Plus and Minus