Exam 1 pt 3

Question 1

what takes over the west now in mining? / Why does a cattle frontier emerge in the west?

Answer 1

silver/ Because of the transcontinental railroad.

Question 2

how do you get cattle to the railroad to be processed what do you need?

Answer 2

“cowboys” who are 16/ 17-year-old boys who are hired by cattle rangers to escort cattle to railroads.

Question 3

Who has access to oil? / What nickname does oil have / What role does it play in?

Answer 3

Texas and Oklahoma and Utah / Black Gold/ industrialization, railroad construction, steel and the economy.

Question 3

What was Spindletop, Texas nickname? Why?

Answer 3

“The Oil Geyser” because they can produce 5 hundred thousand barrels of oil and are still producing today.

Question 4

What three factors that power the US economy?

Answer 4

railroads, steel, and oil.

Question 4

What were the captains of the industry also called?

Answer 4

Robber barons

Question 5

What men are considered the captains of industry?

Answer 5

Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, John D Rockefeller, and cornelius Vanderbilt.

Question 6

Andrew Carnegie becomes a titan of what industry? / How does he turn Pittsburgh into a steel capital of USA?/ What did he control? / Who does he sell the steel company to?

Answer 6

Steel / A furnace called Open Hearth Furnace, but it was heavier/ Controls the steel, price, and construction of steel/ JP Morgan

Question 7

What industry is JP Morgan the Titan of? / What did he buy and dominate? / What does he control?

Answer 7

Banking/ buys Carnegie steel out anddominates 2/3rd of the steel production /He controls the barbed wire, farm equipment, skyscrapers, bridges, and railroads.

Question 8

what industry is JD Rockefeller in Titan of? / What company did he create? What does he control / He returns the first what?

Answer 8

Oil industry/ Standard oil / controls 90% in US. / First Billionaire

Question 9

What steamship did Cornelius Vanderbilt built in New York City? / Why did he put money on the railroad? / What river does he control?

Answer 9

“The Commadore Company” / because he sees that is the future of the United States / controls 75 percent of the Mississippi river.

Question 10

what is social Darwinism?

Answer 10

Natural leaders will survive and improve in society and hard work and wealth you get is a sign from God. Those who are lazy are lower class.

Question 11

Who made the book “gospel of wealth” and what is it about?

Answer 11

Andrew Carnegie/ about what responsibilities that you should do with your wealth.

Question 12

What hall did Andrew Carnegie create and what institution did he create?/ What day did JD Rockefeller create/ What did Cornelius Vanderbilt create?

Answer 12

Carnegie Hall and Carnegie Institute / University of College Colonial Williamsburg / Vanderbilt University.

Question 13

why are the captains of industry also called Robber Barons?

Answer 13

They used Extortion, Kickbacks, bought out companies, spies and congress. The wealthy men would pay congress off to not pay attention to them and say nothing.

Question 14

What is it called when a lot of people room together in one room? Who tried to expose the living conditions to USA? / What is he referred to as? / What book does he make?

Answer 14

tenements/ Jacob Riis / “Muckraker” who is journalist exposing problems in society. / “How the Other Side Lives.”

Question 15

How does the southern states feel about unions how does the northern states feel about unions? Why are unions created?

Answer 15

Southern states hate unions. Northerns embraced them. / Unions are created to be the voice of workers in factories.

Question 16

What was the first labor union called? / Who did they try and represent? / Did it last a long time? /Who was the leader of it?

Answer 16

The Knights of Labor/ They would represent all who Toiled or Struggled in the work environment/ This labor union was short lived / Uriah Stevens was the leader of this movement.

Question 16

What replacement union comes in the 1880s? / Who is the leader? / Who did they focus on? / What was the result of this union?

Answer 16

American Federation of Labor /Samuel Gompers /They focused on fighting for the struggle of factory workers in the steel, oil and railroad industry to have safer working environment & pay / Labor strikes happen as a result.

Question 17

What and where was the first strike? What happened? / What did newspapers say about the strike?

Answer 17

In Chicago Illinois was the Haymarket Square / The worker’s salary was cut by 20% and the workers protested. McKinley allows US military to deal with the strike & shooting conflict happen after a bomb goes off and the aftermath is bloody. / Every newspaper starts writing articles that say, “Labor unions are agents of terror.”