U.S. History EOC Review #1

made manufacturing more efficient; light bulb led to more hours of work = more production

• Solar

• Candle
• Electricity

• Oil

fought for better pay, improved working conditions, and the end of child labor; resulted in increased federal involvement

• Labor unions

• Space exploration movement
• Civil rights movement
• Environmental movement

rapid industrialization led to people moving to cities for employment; caused sanitation problems; taller buildings built because of cheaper steel

• Agricultural revolution
• Suburbanization
• Ruralization
• Urbanization

government officials took bribes; political machines promised infrastructure and jobs in exchange for votes

• Tax reform
• Education funding
• Environmental protection
• Political corruption

resulted in farmers settling the Great Plains

• Homestead Act

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Louisiana Purchase
• Monroe Doctrine

intended to assimilate Native Americans into American culture; divided their tribal land into farm plots

• Emancipation Proclamation
• Homestead Act
• Louisiana Purchase
• Dawes Act

Crowded, run down, low income, housing in the city that new immigrants tended to settle in

• Apartments
• Tenements
• Condos
• Suburbs

a steelmaking technique that used air to remove impurities from molten iron and mass-produced steel, led to building skyscrapers and more railroad tracks

• Bessemer process
• Basic oxygen process
• Electric arc furnace
• Open hearth process

as part of a high tariff bill, Congress enacted a 2-percent tax on income over $4,000, essentially taxing only the wealthy

• Local Tax

• High Brow Tax

• 1894 Tax

• 1900 Tax Credit

wrote The Jungle; resulted in government regulation of food products

• Mark Twain
• George Orwell
• Ernest Hemingway
• Upton Sinclair