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Chapter 14 and 15 homework packet
Guided Reading- Make sure you answer in complete sentences:
Chapter 14:
1) What are the factors that led to the industrial boom?
2) What was the process that turned Iron into Steel? Who discovered it? What was the process?
3) What was steel used for?
4) What inventions caused some of the biggest changes?
5) Why was the transcontinental railroad such a big event?
6) What did George M. Pullman build in his factory?
7) Who were the Grangers?
8) Why were the farmers mad at the Railroad companies?
9) Who were Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller?
10) What were some of the complaints of the unions?
Chapter 15:
1) What were some of the reasons people wanted to immigrate to America?
2) What were conditions like on the ships immigrants came on?
3) What was the chief immigration station from 1892 to 1924?
4) In the vetoed bill proposed by congress if immigrants could not do what they could be denied entry.
5) What was housing like for those who immigrated to the U.S.?
6) What were some of the issues cities faced with the large amounts of people now living in them?
7) What did immigrants provide that political bosses needed?
8) What was the Tweed Ring Scandal?
9) What happened to President Garfield in 1881?
10) Cleveland is the only president to have done what?
Multiple Choice:
1) Through 1865 to 1900, the United States Government aided the development of the West by:
1. maintaining free and unlimited coinage of silver
2. offering low-interest loans to businesses
3. granting land to railroad companies
4. providing price supports for farm products
2) In the United States, organized labor grew the most in membership when:
1. the right to unionize and bargain collectively was guaranteed by legislation
2. international competition began to threaten jobs in the United States
3. the major business groups encouraged unionization
4. the economy began to shift from manufacturing to service employment
3) In the 19th century, the major national labor unions wanted to improve the position of workers mainly by
1. obtaining the legal right to organize and bargain collectively
2. using government troops to settle labor arguments with management
3. supporting government ownership of major industries
4. endorsing a third political party for workers only
4) Nativism in the late 19th century was motivated primarily by
1. hostility toward immigrant workers
2. the need to reduce overcrowding in western states
3. cultural conflicts with Native American Indians
4. the migration of African Americans to northern cities
5) From 1865 to 1900, how did the growth of industry affect American society?
1. The United States experienced the disappearance of the traditional
2. High population areas shifted from the Northeast to the South
3. Restrictions on immigration created a more homogeneous culture.
4. The percentage of Americans living in urban areas increased.
The following document is from a speech given by Mary Elizabeth Lease a member of the Populist Party:
“Yet, after all our years of toil and privation, dangers and hardships upon the Western frontier, monopoly is taking our homes from us by an infamous system of mortgage foreclosure, the most infamous that has ever disgraced the statutes of a civilized nation. It, takes from us at the rate of five hundred a month the homes that represent the best years of our life, our toil, our hopes, our happiness. How did it happen? The government, at the bid of Wall Street, repudiated its contracts with the people; the circulating medium was contracted in the interest of Shylock from $54 per capita to less than $8 per capita; or, as Senator [Preston] Plumb [of Kansas] tells us, “Our debts were increased, while the means to pay them was decreased;”
1) How did Lease appeal to audiences?
2) What points made in this speech made in this speech make you believe Lease is a Populist?
1) In the cartoon above, who do the men of the top of the image represent? What are they sitting on?
2) In the same cartoon, who do the men at the bottom of the page represent? What are they trying to do?
3) What are some of the industries you can see in the cartoon?
Grace Abbott, "The Education of the Immigrant,"-
“The great body of immigrants who have been coming to the United States for the past twenty years are between the ages of sixteen and twenty-five past the age of compulsory school attendance. They have come in the largest numbers from southern and eastern Europe, and often from those districts where the peasantry is denied the opportunity of coming in contact with the culture of its own country. They have been largely representative of people like the Poles, the Bohemians, the Jews, and the Slovaks, who have been made subjects to another people and have felt themselves to be the victims of social, political, or religious discriminations. According to the Thirteenth Census, the number of the foreign-born in the United States was over thirteen and a half million in 1910 and the number of those who were native- [end page 221] born of foreign parentage was about a half million less.”
1) What kinds of conditions were making these immigrants want to leave their own countries?
1) How did the amount and countries that the Immigrants change from pre-1800 to the end of the 1880’s?
2) What do you think caused these changes?