Monday, November 2, 2009

8th Grade Study Guide - NOVEMBER 4th

Chapter 8 – “Settling the West” – p. 284 – 305

Chapter 9 – “Industrialization” – p. 306 – 333

Terms and People


Open range

Mavericks

Barbed wire

Dry-farming

Time zone

Laissez-faire

Vertical integration

Horizontal integration

Monopoly

Bonanza farm

Assimilate

Long drive

Wheat Belt

Thaddeus Lowe

George Custer

Grenville Dodge

Cornelius Vanderbilt

John D. Rockefeller

Robber Barron

Andrew Carnegie

Strikebreakers

Nativism

Haymarket Riot


Themes and Concepts

Growth of Mining and Ranching

- Boom and Bust

Relationship between settlers and Native Americans

- Reservations vs. Assimilation

- Dawes Act

New Inventions – Steel plow, telephone, light bulb, refrigerated rail car

Role of Railroads in Growth

Industrialization

Big Business – Advantages and Disadvantages

Workers – Industry and Railroad

- What did unions want?

Why did people want to move west?

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