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Unit 2 Study Guide RECONSTRUCTION (Ch. 4.4) What were the plans and why did they change/end?

Lincoln Plan Johnson Plan Radical or Congressional Plan How do the South work to subvert Reconstruction? Black Codes Grandfather Clause KKK Sharecropping Post Civil War Amendments What did these amendments do? 13th Amendment 14th Amendment 15th Amendment How does the Civil War help to answer the question of: where the power should lie as it pertains to the States and Federal government? INDUSTRIALIZATION / CONSOLIDATION (Ch. 6) How do the industrialists go about dominating an industry? Vertical and Horizontal Integration What are they? Changes in Technology Steel Oil Railroads Electricity Robber Baron or Captain of Industry? Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller Leland Stanford Jay Gould JP Morgan Cornelius Vanderbilt How do they justify their being wealthy? Social Darwinism What is it? Gospel of Wealth by Carnegie IMMIGRATION (Ch. 7.1) Why do people come? Pushing out War, Famine, Religion, etc. Pulling to Jobs, Religious Tolerance, etc. What was it like? Ellis Island Angel Island Culture Shock Restrictions on Immigration Gentlemans Agreement Chinese Exclusion Act URBANIZATION (Ch. 7.2) What causes it? (Hint: study the flow charts I gave you!) What are the problems with it? Sanitation

Water Housing Transportation Fire Crime Who is blamed for all of this and what are the solutions? (Hint: study the flow charts I gave you!) POLITICAL MACHINES (Ch. 7.3 & 7.4) How does urbanization relate to this? (Hint: study the flow charts I gave you!) Politics following the Civil War to 1892 (Another Flow Chart) Spoils System What is good about it? What is bad about it? How is it still with us? How does it change? Garfields assassination Pendleton Act Good and Bad of this Act LABOR UNIONS (Ch. 6.4) The different early Unions National Labor Union (NLU) & Colored National Labor Union (CNLU) Why were these significant? Knights of Labor Why was it significant? Craft Unions American Federation of Labor (AFL) Samuel Gompers Industrial Unions American Railway Union (ARU) Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Eugene V. Debs Socialism What is it? Why and how do they fight back against they Industrialists? Conditions in the cities -Child Labor Mary Harris Jones Mother Jones Mines -Working conditions Triangle Shirt Factory fire -Hours - Why do people move to the cities? o Farmers Union and Management Tactics -Strikes -Picketing -Boycott -Lockout Yellow Dog Contracts -Replacement workers -Injunction FARMERS (Ch. 5) How does Homestead Act motivate the Farmer west? What does the Homestead Act require the farmer to do? What are their problems? Populism and The 3 Ds Drought/Natural Disasters

Droughts Blizzards/Ice Storms Locusts/Grasshoppers Debt Railroads Equipment Banks Deflation What is it? How is it different then Inflation? Who does it help? Why? How is the Wizard of Oz and allegory of the Populist movement? Who do the characters represent?

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