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Name: _____________________________________________ Period: ______________

Standard 4 Study Guide


4.1- Impact of Railroads on the U.S. and Native Americans
Impact of the transcontinental Railroad for Native Americans:
White action Result on the Native Americans
Whites kill bison so that they don’t hit the trains

Whites want Native American land

Whites want Native Americans to assimilate

Whites send Native American kids to boarding


schools

Whites feel threatened by the Ghost Dance

Terms to know:
Transcontinental Railroad

Pacific Railway Act

Homestead Act

Dawes Act

Ghost Dance

Battle at Wounded Knee

4.2- Economic Growth in the U.S.


Factors of production (AND THEIR DEFINITIONS):
1.

2.

3.
Physical capital=
Financial capital=
4.
Why have an open-door immigration policy during the Boom?

Who did the government support during this time, laborers or businesses?

Terms to know:
Chinese Exclusion Act

Nativism

Unions

4.3- Big Business


Andrew Carnegie
Industry he had a monopoly in

Process he used to mass produce his product

Type of integration he used (and definition)

Way to remember Andrew Carnegie and his monopoly=

John Rockefeller
Industry he had a monopoly in

Way he monopolized his industry

Type of integration he used (and definition)

Way to remember John Rockefeller and his monopoly=

Terms to know:
Capitalism
Muckraker

The Jungle

Monopolies

Bessemer process

Vertical Integration

Horizontal Integration

Robber Barons

Sherman Anti-Trust Act

Captains of Industry

Social Darwinism

Laissez-faire

Gospel of Wealth
4.4-Populist Movement
Populist Party=______________________________________________
Who supported the Populist Party?

What did the Populist Party want regulated?

What did the Populist Party want unlimited coinage


of?

Major strikes
The strike: What happened:
Railroad Strike of 1877
Haymarket Incident

Pullman Strike

Who did the government back in these strikes, the business or the laborers?

Terms to know:
Granger Laws

Gilded Age

Arbitration

Wildcat Walkouts

“Scabs”

Yellow Dog Contracts

4.5- Urbanization in the US


Who did immigrants place their trust in when they arrived in the US? Hint--- it’s the people who gave them
jobs.

Blacks Migrate North


Why’d they go North?

What was it like when they got there?

Terms to know:
Graft
4.6-Women’s Suffrage and Progressive Movement
Progressivism= ______________________________________
What did people want out of the progressive
movement?

Progressivism emerged as a result of what 2 sources


of information?

Which group of people also worked along with the


Progressive movement to attain more rights?

Key Politicians in the Progressive Movement


Teddy Roosevelt Woodrow Wilson
Ways in which they were
progressives

Terms to know:
Carrie Chapman Catt

19th Amendment

Alice Paul

Jane Addams

Bully pulpit

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