New Frontier

Question 1

What lands were given to the United States following the Spanish-American war?

Answer 1

Guam
Puerto Rico
Philippians

Question 2

The Landrush occurred in what state?

Answer 2

Oklahoma

Question 3

What were the aims/goals of the American Federation of labor? How did they protest?

Answer 3

I wanted to control hours and wages the workers went on strike

Question 4

In what ways did the refrigerated railroad car change consumerism in the late 1800s?

Answer 4

Made easier for people to buy things made more money

Question 5

How did large company solve the problem of overseeing their operations in the late 1800s?

Answer 5

More managers

More departments

Question 6

Why was Rockefeller able to demand rail shipping rates of $.10 a barrel for oil compared with his competitors $.35?

Answer 6

Completely dominated oil company

Question 7

What were the accomplishments of the populist party in the 1892 election?

Answer 7

Fell into the depression making populous more attractive

Question 8

Who is the best example of vertical introversion and why?

Answer 8

Carnegie he buys up all the facets of production

Question 9

What what are the new resources found in the west?

Answer 9

Gold
Silver
Timber

Question 10

What three things led the breakdown of native American culture in the United States?

Answer 10

Kids sent to boarding schools
Were separated into two reservations
Dawes severalty act

Question 11

What is the term used to describe that the United States have the right to expand its memories from coast-to-coast

Answer 11

Manifest destiny

Question 12

Although the land was free in the Oklahoma Landrush the settlers would have to _________ or settle on the land and farm it’s for a number of years before they could own it

Answer 12

Nome stead

Question 13

When the _________ was completed in 1869 railroad companies encouraged eager farmers to buy some other enormous land holdings

Answer 13

Transcontinental railroad

Question 14

What natural disaster that occurred in the Great Plains cause bankers to foreclose on farmlands leaving thousands of homesteads deserted

Answer 14

Drought

Question 15

What is a robber baron?

Answer 15

Very wealthy people

Question 16

Mary Harris “mother” jones

Answer 16

Accepts all employable people
Eight hour days
Equal pay
Women could work
Union knights of labor

Question 17

John D. Rockefeller

Answer 17

Oil business owner

Question 18

Samuel Gompers

Answer 18

American federal of labor
Skilled workers only
Strikes a boycotts
10 hour days
Six-day week

Question 19

Andrew Carnegie

Answer 19

Business owner of steel

Question 20

Thomas Edison

Answer 20

Over 1000 inventions
Light bulbs
Phonograph
Electric distribution

Question 21

William Jennings Bryan

Answer 21

Ran for president democrat turn populousist

Question 22

Theodore Roosevelt

Answer 22

Secretary of navy led Roughrider

Question 23

Why didn’t the US give the Philippines their independence after the Spanish-American war?

Answer 23

Mckinley didn’t want war

Question 24

Did the Spanish blow up the USS Maine?

Answer 24

No it was a faulty boiler on the ship

Question 25

What did the war with Mexico results in?

Answer 25

One gave them 15 million for land

Question 26

What role did the press have helping start the Spanish-American war?

Answer 26

Words are going to stir AMS into wanting war

Question 27

For what reasons did Americans want to expand in the late 1800s?

Answer 27

New lands
New businesses
New Markets

Question 28

Explain the difference between vertical and horizontal integration. In the late 1800s who were the best examples of each and how so

Answer 28

Vertical integration is where you buy up all facets of product like carnige because he didn’t just own his business he also owns everything that got it there or made it.
Horizontal integration is when you buy up competitors like Rockefeller because he was a good businessman people thought of him as a robber baron

Question 29

What were some characteristics of cowhand culture?

Answer 29

Mostly men work
Seasonal
More integrated than other parts of society