AP United States History
Period 6: Agricultural Revolution and the Gilded Age
Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West
Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy
Chapter 18: The Age of the City
Chapter 19: From Crisis to Empire
Part iI: Unit Terms
Define the term and explain their significance.
The West
1. Great Plains
2. Union Pacific Railroad
3. Central Pacific Railroad
4. Transcontinental Railroad
(Promontory Point, UT)
5. John Deere plow
6. Cyrus McCormick Reaper
7. Massacre at Sand Creek (1864)
8. Homestead Act (1862)
9. Morrill Land Grant Act (1862)
10. Bureau of Indian Affairs
11. Concentration Policy
Capital and Labor
29. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
30. Bessemer Process
31. Time zones
32. George Westinghouse
33. Cornelius Vanderbilt
34. Andrew Carnegie
35. US Steel
36. Gospel of Wealth
37. John D. Rockefeller
38. Standard Oil
39. J.P. Morgan
40. “New South”
41. Mass production
Imperialism
64. Alabama
65. Secretaries of State: William
H. Seward, Elihu Root, John
Hay
66. Seward’s Folly
67. Pan-Americanism and James
G. Blaine
68. Queen Liliuokalani
69. Cleveland and Hawai’i
70. Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence
of Seapower upon History
(1895)
12. Chief Joseph and the Nez
Percé
13. Buffalo Soldiers
14. Medicine Lodge Treaty (1867)
15. Laramie Treaty of 1868
16. Sioux War of 1876
17. Battle of Little Big Horn (1876)
18. General George Custer
19. Indian Territories in OK and
the Dakotas
20. A Century of Dishonor – Helen
Hunt Jackson
21. Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
22. Battle of Wounded Knee
(1890)
23. The Ghost Dance Movement
24. Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
25. John Muir and the Sierra Club
26. Barbed Wire (Joseph Glidden)
27. Comstock Lode in Nevada
(1859)
28. Frederick Jackson Turner “The
Closing of the American
Frontier”
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52.
Frederick W. Taylor
Scientific management
Knights of Labor
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Haymarket Riots (1886)
Homestead Steel Strike
Pullman Strike (1894)
Eugene V. Debs
Socialist Party
Industrial Workers of the
World (IWW) or Wobblies
53. Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
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71. “White Man’s Burden”
72. Yellow journalism
73. William Randolph Hearst and
Joseph Pulitzer
74. Reconcentration policy
75. Maine
76. Teller Amendment
77. Theodore Roosevelt, Rough
Riders
78. Commodore George Dewey
79. Battle of San Juan Hill
80. Annexation of Hawai’i
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62.
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Wabash Case (1886)
US v. E.C. Knight Co. (1895)
In re Debs (1895)
Interstate Commerce Act
(1887)
Pollack v. Farmers Loan (1895)
Progress and Poverty
Looking Backward
Wealth Against
Commonwealth
Treaty of Paris (1898)
Platt Amendment
Jingoism
Insular cases (1901)
Emilio Aguinaldo
Anti-Imperialist League
Philippine insurrection
Panama revolution
Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty
Roosevelt Corollary
Panama Canal Zone
Venezuelan Crisis (1902)
93. Foraker Act (1900)
94. Jones Act (1917)
95. “Spheres of Influence” and the
Open Door Policy
96. Boxer Rebellion
97. Russo-Japanese War, Treaty of
Portsmouth
98. Gentlemen’s Agreement
99. “Big Stick” diplomacy
100. Secretary of State John Hay
101. Dollar diplomacy
102. “Missionary” or “moral”
diplomacy
103. Great White Fleet
104. Roosevelt Corollary
105. Hay-Pauncefote Treaty
Part II: Reading Questions
Answer the following questions
1. Analyze changing government policy toward American Indians and the reaction of tribes to that change.
2. Analyze the racial, ethnic, and gender make-up of the far western frontier and the consequences of that makeup.
3. Analyze the economic, political, and social consequences of the completion of the transcontinental railroad on
the Far West.
4. To what degree and in what ways did federal government policy encourage westward migration?
5. To what degree and in what ways did the mining, cattle, and agricultural frontiers alter the western
environment?
6. Analyze the reasons for farmer discontent in the trans-Mississippi West.
7. Analyze the economic, political, and social consequences of the rise of Big Business during the Gilded Age.
8. Analyze the reasons for the growth of big business during the Gilded Age.
9. Explain the organizational innovations that led to consolidation and centralization of big business.
10. To what degree and in what ways were labor unions successful in improving lives of workers during the Gilded
Age?
11. How did consolidation and centralization of big business change the lives of workers during the Gilded Age?
12. Analyze the reasons for the growth in numbers of women and children in the industrial labor force.
13. Analyze the change in the volume and characteristics of immigrants and the American reaction to that change.
14. Analyze the reason for the growth of urban problems and the success of municipal governments in dealing with
those problems.
15. Explain how the lure of the city influenced both internal and external migration patterns, leading to
urbanization.
16. Explain how urban planners proposed to physically alter the environment to improve the quality of life for urban
residents.
17. To what degree and in what ways did improvements in urban transportation influence the settlement patterns
of the rich and the poor?
18. Analyze the impact of social criticism in art and literature on improving life for the urban poor.
19. In what ways did increased leisure time influence movement toward mass consumption?
20. To what degree and in what ways did government policy toward big business change in the late 19th century?
21. Analyze the reasons for agrarian discontent in the late 19th century and evaluate the success of their efforts to
resolve those issues.
22. Explain the domestic and international consequences of the Panic of 1893.
23. Analyze the major problems facing the United States in the late 19th century and the response of political parties
to those issues.
24. To what degree and in what ways did the Spanish-American War represent a turning point in American foreign
policy?
25. Explain several ways in which the new imperialism of the late 19th century changed America’s status in the
world.
Part III: Assignments/Discussions
1. Discussion: Fate of Natives
2. Explain: Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth”. Make sure to include excerpts/quotes for the writing that
reflect an understanding of his ideas.
3. Describe the impact of writers such as Ida Tarbell and Upton Sinclair had on society
Part IV: Presidential Charts
Complete the Presidential Charts from Hayes-McKinley (Note: you do not need to do two for Cleveland).
Part V: Review
To review the unit and prepare for the unit test, answer the following questions.
Themes
Beliefs, Ideas, and
Cultures
America in the
World
Geography and
Environment
Peopling
Identity
Politics and Power
Economics—Work,
Exchange, and
Technology
Concept Questions
Compare and contrast the debate over imperialism, demonstrating an
understanding of the justifications used by each side.
Explain the motives for and consequences of the new imperialism economically,
politically, and socially.
Analyze the impact of various aspects of western settlement on the environment
of the region and the environment’s impact on settlement.
Analyze the sources of urban population growth by examining migration patterns
during the Gilded Age.
Analyze the ways in which migration led to changes in American identity for
immigrants, working class people, and first-time urban residents.
Explain the positive and negative aspects of machine politics and boss rule on
urban residents.
Explain how changes in technology and the organizational structure of business
affected the economic and social development of the United States