U.S. History
Tennison
Unit 2 Study Guide: Settling the West and Industrialization in the Gilded Age
Essential Questions:
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What factors contributed to the settlement of the Great Plains and Far West?
What was the impact of westward expansion on the American Indians?
What factors encouraged American economic growth in the decades after the Civil War?
How did workers fare in the new industrial America?
Could workers have improved their working conditions without organizing labor unions?
How did industrialization bring both positive and negative changes to America?
Topics:
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Closing of the American Frontier
o Transcontinental Railroad
o Mining
o Farming
o Ranching
Key Terms:
Eradicate buffalo
barbed wire
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government subsidies
Transcontinental Railroad
Great Northern Railroad
Alexander Graham Bell and Telephone
Oil Drilling and Refining
Bessemer Process
patent
Edison and Lightbulb
Vertical/Horizontal Integration
Philanthropy
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
closed shops
Samuel Gompers
Conditions of Labor
o Poor Working Conditions
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Labor Organizations
Key Terms:
Knights of Labor
Collective Bargaining
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Indian Citizenship Act
Rise of Captains of Industry or Robber Barons
o Andrew Carnegie and Steel
o John D. Rockefeller and Oil
Key Terms:
Gospel of Wealth
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Dawes Severalty Act
Assimilation / Americanization
Technological Innovations
Key Terms:
Telegraph
Expansion of Electricity
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Sod homes
open range
Factors Promoting Industrialization
o Free Enterprise System
o Rise of Corporations
o Creation of National Markets
o Building and Consolidating Railroads
Key Terms:
Laissez-faire policy
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Klondike Gold Rush
Homestead Act
Policy Toward Native American Indians
o Indian Wars
o Reservation System
o Dawes Act
o Indian Citizenship Act
Key Terms:
Wounded Knee
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California Gold Rush
deep wells
Regulating Big Business
Key Terms:
Interstate Commerce Act
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Haymarket Square