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Study Guide for Unit 6: Turn of the Century

Terms and People
Chapter 11
Great Plains

Essential Questions

Chapter 11 Section 2 and 3

1. Explain the land laws passed by the federal government in the late 1800s.
a. Homestead Act:

b. Dawes Act:
Dakota Sioux Uprising (Dakota
War)
Chapter 11 Section 3

2. Describe assimilation and provide 2 examples.

Definition:

Wounded Knee

a.

b.
Chapter 12
Laissez-Faire

Chapter 12 Section 1

3. What factors promoted the growth of industries? (Identify and explain.)

a. ___________________:
b. ___________________:
Pacific Railway Act
c. ___________________:
d. ___________________:
J.D. Rockefeller
Chapter 12 Section 2

4. Explain the impact or the consequences of the Transcontinental Railroad.

a. Economic:
Andrew Carnegie
b. Social:

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Monopoly

Chapter 12 Section 2 and 3

5. Give evidence of how industrialists acted as both robber barons and captains
of industry.
Robber Barons
Captains of Industry

Chapter 13
Chinese Exclusion Act

Chapter 12 Section 3

Angel Island

6. How did industrialists create monopolies?

Chapter 13 section 1

Ellis Island

7. Who did the nativists discriminate against in the late 1800s? Why?

Chapter 13 section 2

Nativism

8. What factors caused cities to grow (urbanization) in the late 1800s?

Chapter 13 section 5

Poll Tax

9. Describe Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBoiss philosophy on civil

rights.
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois

Segregation

Jim Crow Laws

10. a. What was decided in the Plessy v Ferguson (1896) Supreme Court case?
b. How did the decision support Jim Crow Laws?

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