APUSH Study Guide Unit 7 How did immigrants influence the far west? What racism existed towards the immigrants? Who was John Muir and why is he significant to the history of the far west?

Discuss the Grange Movement, Greenback-Labor Party, and the Farmers Alliance? What was the purpose of each movement? What were Ganger Laws and their purpose? How is Wabash v. Illinois related to the Grangers?

What is a robber baron? Who was Andrew Carnegie? Who were Jay Gould, JP Morgan, and Rockefeller and how did each man become wealthy?

How did Sears and Roebuck use RR to reach new customers? How was Sears and Roebuck idea more cost effective than something like Woolworth’s? What was Woolworths and why is significant?

Who was Gustavus Swift and what is vertical integration? What industry did Swift apply vertical integration to and was it successful?

What was the Great Railroad Strike of 1877? What were the results?

What was the main idea of Progress and Poverty?

Who was the labor force for the factories (hint: shifted away from the Irish) Where did most immigrants originate from in the 1880s and why is it significant? How did Frederick Taylor make sure that factory labor was efficient and could it be paid very little (what was it called)? What changes did labor face in the late 1800’s and how did they respond?

Who led the Knights of Labor? How was it organized/structured? What was their stance on strikes? Discuss the Haymarket Square Riot. What was the issue behind it? What happened and who gets blamed? How did it impact the Knights of Labor? How did employers then use anti-labor sentiment that developed after Haymarket Square Riot? What were blacklists and yellow dog contracts?

Discuss the Homestead Strike. How did Carnegie respond to the strike?

Who led the AFL, how was it organized/structured, and what was their stance on strikes?

How did workers spend their disposable income?

What are Thomas Edison and Alexander Graham Bell famous for?

What was the ruling in Plessy v. Ferguson? What are Jim Crow laws? What did Brown v. Board do?

What was the purpose of the YMCA? Why did sports become popular during the Industrial Revolution? What sports were popular?

Who was Booker T. Washington? What was the Atlanta Compromise? Explain his philosophy. What was the Tuskegee Institute? Why did North whites “like” Booker T. Washington? What was his position on segregation? What is the position called? What more recent civil rights leader would he be similar too? What was Booker’s background?

What is Temperance? How is WCTU linked? Who was involved in WCTU? Why was temperance important to women? What happened to suffrage?

What was the purpose of the National Association of Colored Women? Who is Ida B. Wells and what did she do that was significant?

What was family life like in the late 1800’s? Education? What was the Comstock Act?

What is Social Darwinism? Why was it controversial? What is Eugenics? Why was it controversial?

What is realism? Naturalism? Modernism? Who is Mark Twain? What was the controversy surrounding some of his books?

What were the goals of the American Protective Association?

What is the Social Gospel and the Salvation Army?

What is fundamentalism? How are Dwight Moody and Billy Sunday connected to fundamentalism?