US History Unit 5 Study Guide Gilded Age, Industrialization, Immigration, & The Progressive Movement Unit Essential Questions • Were Carnegie, Rockefeller and Morgan Robber Barons or Captains of Industry? • What methods did nativists use to eliminate new immigration? How did new immigrants survive? • What aspects of the Gilded Age were “golden” and what aspects were “corroded”? • How did the progressive movement try to bring about social change? Gilded Age & Urbanization (Chapter 15)
• Why did machine politics become common in big cities in the late 19th century?
• What government problems arose as a result of patronage?
• What problems did the rapid growth of cities pose? How did the settlement house movement
propose to solve these problems?
Political machine Thomas Nast Patronage William Marcy “Boss” Tweed Graft Pendleton Civil Service Act Industrialization & Immigration (Chapter 14)
• How did inventions and developments in the late 19th century change the way people worked?
• Why were big business leaders called robber barons?
• Why did immigrants come to the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries? What
problems did they face?
• Why did workers form unions in the late 19th century? What factors limited the success of unions?
Industrialization Robber Barons or
Captains of Industry?
Unions
Homestead Strike
Andrew Carnegie Gospel of Wealth John D. Rockefeller JP Morgan Vertical integration Horizontal integration Trusts Great Railroad Strike 1877 American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers Social Darwinism
Immigration Chinese Exclusion Act of Melting pot Old vs. New immigrants 1882 Ellis Island and Angel Island Gentleman’s Agreement Immigration Restriction Urbanization League Tenements The Progressive Movement (Chapter 17) • How did political, economic, and social change in the late 19th century lead to progressive reforms? • Why is President Roosevelt’s Square Deal considered progressive? • Who did more for Progressive Reform? Presidents or reformers? Progressive Movement The Jungle William Howard Taft th
Prohibition, 18 Amendment Theodore Roosevelt Bull Moose Party Muckrakers Square Deal Woodrow Wilson National Association of Sierra Club Federal Trade Commission Colored Women (NACW) National Association for the (FTC) Suffrage Advancement of Colored Federal Reserve System Susan B. Anthony People (NAACP) 19th Amendment