Period: 6 1865-1898

Question 1

When did Period 6 start and end?
6.2

Answer 1

1865–1898

Question 2

Mechanization agriculture (3)
6.2

Answer 2

Small farms, decrees industrial farms increase
Price decrease

Question 3

National grange movement, (1)
6.2

Answer 3

Regulate rail roads prices – Commerce act

Question 4

Pacific railroad act/homestead act (2)
6.2.

Answer 4

Grantland to railroads – transcontinental railroad
Homestead act: 160 acres – Goldblum town

Question 5

Significance of frontier, 1893 (3)
6.3.

Answer 5

Close frontier
No longer settle discontent
classes emerge

Question 6

How did the Natives retaliate against American government? (3)
6.3.

Answer 6

Sioux wars – retaliate
Follow buffalo dispute reservations
Ghost dance movement – (believe ancestors drive out whites) resistance closed

Question 7

What did the government do to natives? What acts? (3)
6.3

Answer 7

Indian appropriations act – not recognize nations
Dawes act 1887 divide land natives become citizens
A simulationist movement – abandon culture

Question 8

The new South (3)
6.4.

Answer 8

Industrialize/surpassed North
Plessy V Ferguson– separate but equal
Share, coppering– mostly agriculture

Question 9

Technological innovations in the Gilded Age (3)
6.5

Answer 9

Railroads (land grant)– national market
Bessemer process – steel
Telegraph/telephone – international market

Question 10

Industrial changes in the Gilded Age, (3)
6.6.

Answer 10

Large industries increase
horizontal integration, vertical integration, trusts
Laissez-faire Econ

Question 11

Social changes/ ideas in the gilded age (2)
6.6.

Answer 11

Gospel of wealth – duty to God, invest wealth in society
Social Darwinism – individual, most fit win

Question 12

Labor in the Gilded Age, (3) 6.7.

Answer 12

Labor unions – great railroad strike, pullman strike
Knights of labor (Haymarket riot =demise)
American Federation of labor

Question 13

Immigration in Gilded Age (2) 6.8.

Answer 13

Tenements/ethnic enclaves
Settle industrial cities

Question 14

Migration in Gilded Age, (2) 6.8.

Answer 14

EXO duster movement Dash southern blacks move west
Middle class – suburbs

Question 15

Responses to immigration Gilded Age (5) 6.9.

Answer 15

Nativists
American protective association – no Catholic
Labor union – fear, immigrants
Social Darwinism- racially inferior
Settlement houses – Jane Adams
Chinese exclusion act

Question 16

Panic 1873 6.9.

Answer 16

Immigrants work, low wages – low wages for everyone

Question 17

Development of middle class, (3) 6.10.

Answer 17

Leisure time increase
Education/opportunities
Suburbs

Question 18

Reform in gilded age (3) 6.11.

Answer 18

Utopian society/social gospel
Socialism – regulate society equally
Women- NAWSA, suffrage, temperance

Question 19

Controversies over role of government in Gilded Age (3)
6.12.

Answer 19

Goes back to federalists versus Republicans plus American system
Lassiz fair – need competitions (monopolies=non)
Panic 1893 equals government no help