1. How did the railroads impact the US oil industry?
2. Why did many people move to the West in the 1800s?
3. How did monopolies develop in America in the late nineteenth century?
4. Describe the positive and negative impacts of Andrew Carnegie.
5. How did the electric light bulb impact factories?
6. Describe the causes and effects of immigrants living in urban areas.
7. Where were the majority of the “new” immigrants from and how did they differ from the “old” immigrants?
8. Describe the significance of Samuel F. Gompers and the AFL.
9. Why did workers in the late 1800’s form labor unions?
10. The completion of the Transcontinental Railroad fulfilled which U.S. policy/principle?
11. What groups were responsible for the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad?
12. Where were most of the Indian reservations located?
13. How did western migration impact Native Americans?
14. What was a muckraker and how did they impact society in the early twentieth century?
15. How did Ida Tarbel’s book impact the Standard company?
16. What were the effects of Upton Sinclair’s book The Jungle?
17. What were the causes and effects of the Progressive Movement?
18. What was the significance of the 17ths Amendment?
19. What were the causes and effects of the Spanish-American War?
20. Why did President Roosevelt build the Panama Canal?
21. How did the railroads impact the Steel industry?
22. How did the telegraph change Americans’ outlook on the U.S.?
23. What was the Treaty of Fort Laramie and how did the treaty lead to the Great Sioux War?
24. In the 1800s, why did the government order the slaughter of the buffalo?
25. What was the purpose of Jane Addam’s Hull House in the early 1900s?
26. How was the U.S. impacted by the women’s suffrage movement?
27. Describe the effect of the Plessy v. Ferguson decision.
28. How did the Roosevelt Corollary impact the Monroe Doctrine?
