History 102 Content Questions Flashcards
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During the Second Industrial Revolution, what were 5 reasons the U.S experienced Fantastic economic growth?
1.plentiful natural resources
2. Expanding market
3. Growing labor supply
4. Capital
5. Friendly federal government.
What was the second Industrial Revolution made possible by? What did that thing do?
The railroad; opened new areas for production and new markets, developed time zones, encouraged national brands vital to national economy
What were important innovations during this time.
The Atlantic cable, the phonograph, the motion picture camera, batteries, the telephone, trolleys, the typewriter, handheld cameras
What do trusts do?
Rival companies under the leadership of a single director.
Who was Andrew Carnegie
U.S immigrant of humble origins. Vertically integrated steel company, all modes of production controlled by one company. Carnegie dominated the steel industry by the 1890s.
Who was John D. Rockefeller
A man of humble beginnings he began to buy out rival oil companies “horizontal expansion“ followed Carnegies, vertical expansion model. By the 1880s Rockefeller control 90% of the nations oil industry.
Explain how it was to have a job during the gilded age.
Skilled workers could secure higher wages
Most workers were unskilled and received very low wages
Long hours, no benefits or protections
Dangerous working conditions
Explain the difference between how the rich and the poor lived during the Gilded Age
The richest 1% owns more properties in the other 99% of people
A growing middle class creates new urban and suburban neighborhoods.
What was the logical conclusion of free labor?
The homestead act of 1862
What is monoculture?
Monoculture is the growing of a single crop on the farm
Explain farming on the border
Farmers became more dependent on purchased goods and loans to purchase those goods farmers became vulnerable to economic fluctuations with an extremely diverse population
What becomes the agriculture during the Gilded Age?
Wheat and corn farming
What does the US become a great producer of?
Wheat and food
How does economic depression affect the price of farm products?
It pushes them down steadily
How did the lifestyle of the plains Indians Change over the course of the Gilded Age
They went from foot to horse
Horses and Buffalo central to the culture and economy
As boundary stretched for the Indians, what follows
The Navajo long walk and new peace policies
How did the US Army devastate the Indians
They use Civil War tactics
What happens after reconstruction in the south?
Southern states sponsor racism
Do southern states restrict the black vote
Yes
How did southern states restrict the black vote?
Poll tax, literacy tests, competency tests,
What gave the south the licensure to segregation
Plessy V Ferguson
What is lynching?
Torturing someone to death through “stay in your place” means.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
A black leader, who in 1895, gave a speech at the Atlanta cotton expo. He urged the black Americans to adjust to segregation. He also states that farms and skilled jobs are more important than civil rights.
Explain the woman’s era
Women were still denied the right to vote, although they attain for more economic independence.
They played a far greater role in public life
Arguments for suffrage aligned with Racial norms of the day
