U.S. History

Review Unit 1 American History

by Lawrence Jurosic

​Factors needed for America's Industrialization

​1. A cheap plentiful workforce

​2. No government regulation like lassiez faire. hands off

​3. Natural resources in the form of iron ore, coal, oil, and timber.

​4. Patent Laws that enabled innovation and inventors to profit off of their inventions.

​5. The corporations laws following the 14th amendment that gave corporations the same rights as private citizens under the law.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following was not a factor that led to the rapid industrialization of American during the, "Gilded Age?"

• Plentiful cheap labor

• Natural resources such as iron, coal, oil, and timber

• Lassiez faire government economic policy

• The government patent laws: where government would STEAL the ideas of others. 

​Immigration

​1. There were two waves of immigration that came because of push factors like persecution, no food, and no freedom.

​2. The first wave was from Northern Europe and largely spoke English and were Protestant (WASP).

​3. The second wave was mostly German, Slavic, Italian, and Catholic.

​4. Nativism: was a group that was against new immigration because of their lack of ability to assimilate.

​5. Immigrants came here for the following pull factors: JOBS, land, and freedom.

​6. 1882 Congress passed the Chinese Exclusion act banning Chinese from becoming citizens.

Multiple Select

Which of the following is true about immigration (please select all that apply. 

• Push factors were bad things like persecution, famine, and no freedom

• Pull factors like freedom, JOBS, and land.

• Not all Americans welcomed immigrants such as Nativism and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882

• Immigrants also lived in the poorest neighborhoods, with the highest crime, and the most disease and sickness called tenements.

• Immigrants that came to American got the best jobs and lived in the nicest neighborhoods often times over paid and education .

​Immigration

​1. Angle island was a processing center for immigrants from China and Japan.

2. Ellis Island was a processing center for immigrants coming from Europe.

Multiple Select

Which of the following are pull factors for immigration?

• Angle and Ellis Islands

• JOBS

• freedom  of religion

• free land from the Homestead act. 

​Monopolies

​During the Gilded Age and to today corporations like John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil, Andrew Carnegie's steel, and Cornelius Vanderbilt's railroad, used things like vertical and horizontal integration to run out competition. Vertical integration John D. Rockefeller's controlling oil from the ground all the way to the home, and horizontal integration was Vanderbilt controlling all of the railroads going to New York City.

Multiple Choice

vertical integration is which of the following. 

• Andrew Carnegie's company owned the iron mines, the coal mines, the railroads to transport the ore and finished steel, and the factories that produced it all. 

• John D. Rockefeller buying out all of the competition in refining oil and then shutting down the competition. 

​Sources

​1. Primary sources are the photographs, original manuscripts, and eye witness accounts from the time period in question.

​2. Secondary sources are a summary of those accounts, translations of the original account, or a photoshopped/edited version of a paper or video clip.

​3. Tertiary sources are summaries papers written and most history text books.

Multiple Choice

In writing a paper or doing research, which source is going to be more accurate. 

• A history book

• Your teacher

• An interview from the time period in question

• A translated edition. 

​Western Expansion

​​Manifest Destiny: Many Americans felt it was their destiny or the American democracy to take over the world. Many Americans started taking land West in the form of grants of the railroads, Homestead Act, and just wanting to get out of the cities from urbanization. Many Americans were living in cities and their crowdedness meant that some Americans wanted to go out West. There were some problems moving West: Native Americans lived West due to treaties with the American government, life was hard, and there were no real supports/amenities.

Multiple Select

What were the results of "white settlers," moving West?

• War with Native American tribes

• Loss of the American Frontier by the 1900's

• Genocide of Native American way of life. 

• innovation that lead to the farming of the great plains. 

• Not Manifest Destiny