AMERICAN HISTORY
POPULISTS AND PROGRESSIVES:
POLITICS AND SOCIETY IN THE LATE 19TH CENTURY
 To learn about the many important social trends, political changes, and technological advances during the late 19th and early 20th Century, you will create a packet of information containing notes from lectures and the book as well as other work.  The outside work to be completed as well as the topics to be defined from lecture notes and reading of the text are as follows.
 The late 19th and early 20th Century was a time of expansion and growth for the United States.  Using a blank map (provided) fill in the dates when the 48 contiguous states joined the Union.  This was also a time of great political activity in America.  Compile a list of all the Presidents who served between 1869 and 1920, their party affiliation, how long they served, and if they were assassinated or took over following their predecessor’s assassination.  One president was elected on two separate occasions with a term of four years in between; be sure to list him twice.  Helpful information about this can be found in the Illustrated Databank at the back of the textbook.
 This period was a time of great industrial, scientific, and technological advancement.  It was also a time when improved communication and transportation made these improvements available to everyone, sometimes through so simple a medium as the mail-order catalogue.  You will make one or two pages of advertisements from such a mail-order catalogue, briefly advertising five or more of the new inventions or technologies found in Chapter 13.1 and 16.2 of your book.
 Using Chapter 18.2 and 18.4, give a simple explanation and illustration for the four new amendments to the Consitution made during this period.
 
Define or describe the following:
13.1
Thomas Edison and his inventions
The telephone and the telegraph
The Bessemer process
Answer questions on page 465: 3,4

13.2
Andrew Carnegie and the ‘Gospel of Wealth’
John D. Rockefeller
Social Darwinism
Trusts
Captains of Industry or Robber Barons

13.3
Answer question on page 476: 3

13.4
Karl Marx
Socialism
The Haymarket Riot
Eugene V. Debs
Answer question on page 483: 2

14.1
The Homestead Act
The Morrill Land-Grant Act

14.2
Reservations
Sand Creek
Little Bighorn
George Custer
Wounded Knee
Boomers and Sooners

14.3
Dugout house
Sod house (or soddie)
Frederick Jackson Turner and the Frontier Thesis
Answer question on page 506: 2

14.4
UNDERSTAND POPULISM
Deflation and inflation
The gold standard and bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan and the Cross of Gold Speech
15.1
The Gilded Age
Graft
The Spoils System
James A Garfield
Charles Guiteau
Pendleton Civil Service Act

15.2
Ghettos
Answer questions on page 533:  1,3

15.3
Tenements
Political machines
Boss Tweed

15.4
Settlement houses
Nativism
Temperance and prohibition movements

16.1
Answer question on page 557:  4
Compare the educational theories of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois

16.2
George Eastman
Yellow journalism

16.3
Jim Crow Laws
Poll tax
Literacy test
Segregation
Plessy v Ferguson
NAACP

16.4
Answer question on page 573:  4
 
18.1
UNDERSTAND THE PROGRESSIVES
Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
Muckrakers
Answer question on page 619:  1

18.2
Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
Social welfare
Initiative
Referendum
Recall
Robert LaFollette
Theodore Roosevelt
XVI Amendment
XVII Amendment

18.4
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Civil Disobedience
Jeanette Rankin
XVIII Amendment
XIX Amendment
Answer question on page 639:  3

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