Week 27: March 6-10, 2k23

Reconstruction/Gilded Age Study Guide  

Test on March 8/9

1. What was the Freedmen’s Bureau?
2. What were the pros and cons of urbanization during the Gilded Age?
3. How did the United States need to rebuild after the Civil War?
4. What does gilded mean?
5. What is a monopoly?
6. What is a trust?
7. How did companies take over America after the Civil War?
8. What is vertical & horizontal integration?
9. How are companies like Amazon & Apple not monopolies, but pretty darn close?!
10. What were the industries of Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Morgan & Ford
11. How did the Johnstown Flood change Carnegie's life?
12. How did Rockefeller change his public image?
13. How did the Chicago Fire of 1871 change the way modern cities were built?
14. What were some of the pros and cons of immigration & how did/do immigrants contribute to society?
15. What were some new inventions in the late 19th century?  How did the inventions of the late 19th century make America a "modern" nation?
16. How do we still live in a "gilded" age?

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Native America 1865-1900  

Q's = Two Quiz Grades

“The whites were always trying to make the Indians give up their life and live like white men -- go to  farming, work hard, and they did not want to anyway...If the Indians had tried to make the whites live like them, the whites would have resisted, and it was the same way with many Indians…”

-Wamditanka (Big Eagle) of Santee Sioux