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| How did new technology encourage settlement in the West? | Trainsportation inventions, including the expanding steam locomotive network, allowed for people to move about the country more easily. Changes in communication, such as the telegraph, kept those in remote area more in touch. Finally, farm tool innovations, like the mechanical reaper, encouraged easier cultivation of the large land areas westward. |
| What did the government do to monopolies in response to public pressure? | Due to the public's distrust of monopolies, the government created laws and organizations to control big businesses. The Sherman Anti-Trust Act sought encouraged healthy competition. The Interstate Commerce Act required railroads publish and charge "reasonable and just" rates creating The Interstate Commerce Commission as a watchdog of the transportation industry. |
| During the Gilded Age how did reformers help the poor? | Reformers created assistance for the poor in the form of settlement houses. These establishments provided medical care, playgrounds, nursersies, libraries and education. The Hallhouses was the most famous of the houses. The reformers also lobbied to improve public services in poor neighborhoods. |
| Why was the Log Cabin Campaign a success? | The Log Cabin Campaign was a success for several reasons. The campaign portrayed Harrison as a common man to whom the public could relate. His views were similar to those of many farmers and laborers. |
| What were the advantages for the North in the Civil War?": | During the Civil War The North had numerous advantages. The economy of the North was much stronger, and the factories of the Union were more easily able to create weaponry and uniforms. There were more people to fight The Confederacy. |
| What were the advantages for the South in the Civil War?": | The South's advantages during the Civil War including fighting on it's own territory. The knowledge of the land gave it's army an edge over the enemy. The South's military was better trained at every level. |
| Why did the Federalist Party decline and die? | Party |
| Why were Journalists important to the Progressive Movement? | Journalists and writers were important to reforms during the Progressive Movement as mukrakers bringing attention to corruption. For example, Upton Sinclair's book, The Jungle, exposed the horrors of the meat packing industry. This helped the passing of the Meat Inspection and Pure Food and Drug Acts. |
| What were the main points of the Pro-Slave argument? | Those that argued in favor of slavery insisted that it was indispensable. They claimed that it was "essential to economic progress and prosperity". They claimed, also, that white southerners were more cultured and civilized because of the advantages of slavery. Finally, they believed that the slaves were better in their care than on their own or in the terrible factories of The North. |
| What was life like in a mining town? | Mining towns were often called boomtowns, because they sprang up quickly after gold or silver strikes. They were wild and "untamed" places populated with people from all over the world. Violence was common, and people carried guns and large amount of money. Because there were rarely police in the towns, the citizens often dealt out their own vigilante justice. When the mines dried up the towns quickly died and became ghost town. |
| How were women viewed in the early 1800's? | In the early 1800's women did not have the same rights as men. The law treated them like children who needed to be taken care of. They fell under the authority of their nearest male relative. When a woman married all her property and earnings belonged to her husband. So not cool! |
| What are the differences between dollar diplomacy, gunboat diplomacy, and moral diplomacy? | Taft's "dollar diplomacy" was the linking of "American business with diplomatic interest abroad." Roosevelt believed more in "gunboat diplomacy", responding to foreign crises not by threats but military action. Wilson's "moral diplomacy" is the belief that the U.S. should include moral priciples in their foreign policy. |
