Westward+Expansion+and+Industrialization

Here we go again with topics from the MULTIPLE CHOICE section of previous AP exams:

__ **The Guilded Age** __ 1890 - major source of taxes was customs duties Dawes Act Pullman Strike Horizontal integration "New" Immigrants Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 Gospel of Wealth Social Darwinism Unions "A Century of Dishonor" by Helen Hunt Jackson Morrill Land Grant Act American Federation of Labor Open-range ranching Supreme Court and Big Business

Previous DBQs and FRQs include:

__ **DBQ** __

1. In what ways and to what extent did constitutional and social developments between 1860 and 1877 amount to a revolution? Use the documents and your knowledge of the period from 1860 to 1877 to answer the question.

2. How successful was organized labor in improving the position of workers in the period from 1875 to 1900? Analyze the factors that contributed to the level of success achieved. Use the documents and your knowledge of the period from 1875 to 1900 to construct your response.

3. To what extent did the natural environment shape the development of the West beyond the Mississippi and the lives of those who lived and settled there? How important were other factors? Use BOTH evidence from the documents AND your knowledge of the period for the 1840s through the 1890s to compose your answer.


 * __FRQ__ **

1. "The reorganization and consolidation of business structures was more responsible for late nineteenth century American industrialization than was the development of new technologies." Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to business structures and technology between 1865 and 1900.

2. Compare the debates that took place over American expansionism in the 1840s with those that took place in the 1890s, analyzing the similarities and differences in the debates of the two eras.

3. Discuss the political, economic, and social reforms introduced in the South between 1864 and 1877. To what extent did these reforms survive the Compromise of 1877?

4. Compare the expansionist foreign policies of Thomas Jefferson and James K. Polk. To what extent did their policies strengthen the United States?

5. Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the wealth that was created in the United States during the late nineteenth century: (1) Andrew Carnegie, (2) Eugene V. Debs, (3) Horatio Alger, (4) Booker T. Washington, and (5) Ida M. Tarbell.

6. Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to any TWO of the following in the United States between 1865 and 1880: (1) agriculture, (2) labor, (3) industrialization, (4) transportation.

7. Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial worker between 1865 and 1900: (1) government actions, (2) immigration, (3) labor unions, (4) technological changes.

8. How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth century affected by technological developments and government actions?

9. "From the 1840s through the 1890s, women's activities in the intellectual, social, economic, and political spheres effectively challenged traditional attitudes about women's place in society." Assess the validity of this statement.

10. "Although economic development of the Trans-Mississippi West is popularly associated with hardy individualism, it was in fact largely dependent on the federal government." Assess the validity of this statement with specific reference to western economic activities in the nineteenth century.

11. How and why did transportation developments spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United States?

__ **AP Topics** __ Expansion and development of western railroads Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians Government policy toward American Indians Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West Environmental impacts of western settlement
 * Development of the West in the Late Nineteenth Century **

Corporate consolidation of industry Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace Labor and unions National politics and influence of corporate power Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation Proponents and opponents of the new order, e.g., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
 * Industrial America in the Late Nineteenth Century **

Ulysses S. Grant Credit Mobilier Scandal First Transcontinental Railroad Knights of Labor Panic of 1873 Mark Twain Rutherford B. Hayes Half-breeds, Stalwarts, and Mugwumps James Garfield Chester Arthur Chinese Exclusion Act Grover Cleveland Wabash Case American Federation of Labor Haymarket Square Riot Interstate Commerce Act
 * Other terms... **

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