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HIST 152: Study Guide - Test #1
Chapter 15:
Know what Manifest Destiny is and how it encouraged westward migration.
Morrill Land Grant Act
Homestead Act
Building of the Transcontinental Railroad (Companies, workers, etc.)
What was the Impact of Western Expansion upon the Native Americans?
Sand Creek Massacre
Treatment of Chinese workers on the Railroad
What was the Impact of the Railroad on the West
What hardships did farmers face?
What was the Grange and what did they want?
Where did the traditions of the Cowboy come from?
The 2nd Treaty of Ft. Laramie and why it was broken
Battle of Little Big Horn
Wounded Knee Massacre
Dawes Severalty Act - What did it do and what was the reasoning behind it? How did the government try and assimilate the Native Americans?
What was Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier thesis?HIST 152: Study Guide - Test #1
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Chapter 16:
What was the 1st major big business in America?
What allowed American industry to rapidly expand?
Laissez-Faire
Vertical Consolidation vs. Horizontal Consolidation
How did Andrew Carnegie and John D Rockefeller create their industries?
Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railway v. Illinois
Santa Clara County v. Souther Pacific
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Working conditions and Child Labor during the Gilded Age
The Great Uprising of 1877
Chinese Exclusion Act 1882
Andrew Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Knights of Labor (Who were they and what did they want)?
Haymarket Riot
AFL (How did they differ from the Knights of Labor?)HIST 152: Study Guide - Test #1
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Chapter 17:
What led to the growth of cities during the Gilded Age?
What were Ghettoes?
What were tenements?
What was life like in the cities
How did Political Machines control the city?
Nativism
Ellis Island and Angel Island
Jane Addams and Settlement Houses
Hull House
City Beautiful Movement
What were vaudeville shows?
The Peoples Party/Populists (Who

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