Unit 1 Review

Below is a list of "hints". Each refers to likely questions on the closed book test. If you have done the reading and kept up with the journal you should already recognize most of these. Those which you do not recognize deserve your attention.

• industrial giants in oil, steel, others
• impact of rails, phones, steel, Standard Oil
• forms of business organizations, role of corporation
• how workers lived, dangers, benefits
• rise of national labor organizations
• who were the immigrants, how did they live
• role of political machines, bosses (Tweed), urban class structure, who lived where
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• New South/ Jim Crow
• Plessy v Ferguson and Munn v. Illinois
• reservation policy
• Homestead Act
• Bland Allison Act/ Silver Purchase acts
• the symbolism of free silver
• "politics of paralysis"/Pendleton Act
• third party movements--success or failure
• People's Party
• support for low tariff, for high tariff
• election of 1896
• Tenements/Jacob Riis
• Dawes Act
• motives for empire/ Mahan/USS Maine/Imperialism
• annexation of Hawaii, role of sugar
• causes and outcomes of War with Spain
• study maps, 591 & 700--know 3-4 major rails, cattle trails, Indian battles, & U.S. war in Cuba. Specifically try to locate: Wounded Knee, Little Big Horn, the Red River War, and Indian Territory. Locate the Transcontinental Railroad, the Great Northern Railroad, the Pacific Railroad , and the Chisholm trail. Locate the city in which Tweed was boss, and the city famous for its stockyards. Locate battle sites in Cuba.

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