US History Name:
Mr. Hirons
Chapter 6 and 7 Study Guide
Define and explain the significance of the following terms. Use TISB.
Chapter 6.1 ( The Expansion of Industry)
Bessemer process
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Why was the United States able to industrialize so rapidly?
How did industrialization affect the workforce? Was it for the better or worse? Explain
Chapter 6.2 The Age of the Railroads
Transcontinental Railroad
George Pullman
Munn v. Illinois
Interstate Commerce Act
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
How did the railroads contribute to the growing national economy in the late 1800s?
Why did a growing number of people believe that the railroads needed to be regulated in the late
1800s?
Chapter 6.3 (Big Business and Labor)
Andrew Carnegie
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Social Darwinism
John D. Rockefeller
Sherman Antitrust Act
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor
Eugene Debs
Industrial Workers of the World
Haymarket Riot
Homestead Strike
Pullman Strike
Mary Harris Jones
Chapter 7.1 (The New Immigrants)
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Melting pot
Nativism
Chinese Exclusion Act
Gentlemen’s Agreement
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
Why did so many people come to the United States in the late 1800s?
Why did many of the “new immigrants” face discrimination throughout the United States?
Chapter 7.2 (The Challenges of Urbanization)
Urbanization
Americanization movement
Tenement
Mass transit
Social Gospel movement
Jane Addams
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
What were some of the problems that American cities faced in the late 1800s?
What were settlement houses? How did they attempt to deal with urban problems?
Chapter 7.3 (Politics in the Gilded Age)
Political machine
Graft
Boss Tweed
Patronage
Pendleton Civil Service Act
Grover Cleveland
Answer the following questions in complete sentences.
What role did “political bosses” play in American politics in the late 1800s?
Was civil service reform necessary? Explain your answer.