Unit Three

Question 0

Inventions during the market revolution

1830s-1840s

Answer 0

Sewing machine 
Telegraph
Steamboat
Railroads
Steel plow 
Mechanical reaper

Question 1

What was The reasons why the market revolution took place?

Answer 1

People bought, sold goods rather than making them for their own use
Income rose; national economy grew
Competition rose

Question 2

Lowell Mill conditions

Answer 2

Females paid lower, heat (windows nailed), darkness, and poor ventilation= discomfort and illness, 5 am

Question 3

What 2 nationalities made up the majority of immigrants coming in the mid 1800s?

Answer 3

European (Irish and German) immigrants

Question 4

Cause of the Texas revolution

Answer 4

Cultural differences (T was Protestant and spoke English)
Wanted Slavery (outlawed in Mexico)
Santa Anna placed Texas under complete control of Mexico

Question 5

Causes of Mexican - American war

Answer 5

Expansion-wanted more territory (US)
Slavery-wanted to expand
American aggression

Question 6

3 main goals of reconstruction

Answer 6

Rebuild south
Bring southern states back into the union
Bring slaves into their new status as free men and women

Question 7

How were the public works programs in the south during reconstruction paid for

Answer 7

Higher taxes

Question 8

How did the programs during the reconstruction stop recovering the south?

Answer 8

All southerners had their income drop during the war; struggled to recover

Question 9

Collapse of reconstruction 5

Answer 9

KKK.
scandals and divided Republican Party.
Radical republicans-hard time maintaining policies w/o full party support.
Panic of 1873.
Supreme Court rulings.
Democrats regained power in the state govt of the south.

Question 10

What product/resource caused the conflicts in the Great Plains area between native Americans and white settlers?

Answer 10

Gold

Question 11

The Dawes act goal

Answer 11

Americanize the natives

Question 12

What did the Dawes act do

Answer 12

Broke up reservations gave some land to individual natives

Question 13

What did the govt say they would do in the Dawes act

Answer 13

Sell the rest of the land to settlers and give $ to the natives…never happened

Question 14

What caused the end of Native American wars with the govt?

Answer 14

Wounded knee massacre

Question 15

Major generals in the Mexican-American war who ended up serving in the civil war

Answer 15

Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant

Question 16

Why did president Andrew Jackson not agree with the radical republicans plan during reconstruction?

Answer 16

He thought that they did not need to spend anymore money on slaves because they’ve spent so much on them all ready.the south is in ruins and he believes they should focus on rebuilding rather than focusing on salves

Question 17

Andrew carnegies strategy of controlling the steel business

Answer 17

Vertical and horizontal integration

Question 18

Vertical integration

Answer 18

Buying out suppliers in order to control raw materials, transportation

Question 19

Horizontal integration

Answer 19

Buying out similar companies in order to limit competition. (Buying out other organizations w

Question 20

How did J. Rockefeller get ride of competition in the oil business?

Answer 20

Achieve a monopoly, complete control over the industries productions, wages, and prices.

Question 21

How else did Rockefeller get rid of competition

Answer 21

By selling oil at a price lower than it cost to produce- once controlled the market, he drove prices up

Question 22

Why did workers at Pullman go on strike

Answer 22

1/4 employers laid off, wages cut while rent stayed,

Went on strike to have wages restored.strikebreakers were hyped-lead to violence, bad working conditions

Question 23

Reasons for labor unions - when was striking used?

Answer 23

12 hour days 6-7 work days
No vacation, sick time, nothing-low wages
Families needed all members to hold jobs
Women and children working duo led 
Women were paid less

Question 24

The Chinese exclusion act and reasoning for it

Answer 24

Outlawed all Chinese from entering the us expect tourists, students, and merchants.
Belief of nativism- favoritism towards native born Americans

Question 25

What led to Chinese e. act

Answer 25

Men were jealous because they were taking over jobs. Would work for less money. Hard workers. Thought of china as slaves.

Question 26

Political and economical changes in the south after the civil war

Answer 26

Slaves-controls tightened, more fought for freedom
Economy- food shortages, inflation
Soldiers-lack of hygiene
White women- replaced men on farm and city jobs

Question 27

Political and economic changes in the north after civil war

Answer 27

Industries boomed-army needed supples, draft reduced available work.
A.A in North- suffered discrimination, paid lesser, union army.
Taxation- congress helped pay for war, tapping citizens wealth-taking away people’s profits

Question 28

Panic of 1873 was who

Answer 28

North