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MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 6

Period 6: 1865-1898
Key Concepts
  • Key Concept 6.1: Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.

    • This concept constitutes 10-17% of the exam.

  • Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.

  • Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.

Events and Legislation
  • Continental Railroad - 1869

  • Battle of Little Big Horn - 1876

  • Standard Oil Trust - 1870

  • Munn vs. Illinois - 1877

  • Great Railway Strike - 1877

  • Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882

  • Pendleton Act - 1883

  • Interstate Commerce Act - 1887

  • AFL (American Federation of Labor) Founded - 1886

  • Dawes Act - 1887

  • Sherman Antitrust Act - 1890

  • Ghost Dance - 1890

  • Atlanta Compromise - 1895

  • Haymarket Square Strike - 1886

  • American Protective Association - 1887

  • Populist Party formed - 1892

  • Plessy v. Ferguson - 1896

Themes
  • NAT (American & National Identity)

  • WXT (Work, Exchange, & Technology)

  • GEO (Geography & the Environment)

  • MIG (Migration & Settlement)

  • PCE (Politics and Power)

  • WOR (America in the World)

  • ARC (American & Regional Culture)

  • SOC (Social Structures)

Details to Know
  1. Improvements in mechanization

  2. Growth of railroads

  3. Pull factors for westward expansion

  4. Conflict with indigenous populations/violation of treaties

  5. Preservation of tribal autonomy

  6. Extent that a New South was established

  7. Technological innovations used by businesses

  8. Business practices to increase profit & consolidate wealth

  9. Growth of industrial capitalism

  10. Growing wealth disparities and the rise of the middle class

  11. Conflict between labor and management

  12. Changes in labor (immigrants, children, women)

  13. Pull and Push factors for immigration

  14. Development of ethnic enclaves

  15. Growth of Social Darwinism vs. Gospel of Wealth & Social Gospel

  16. Divisions between political parties & role of the federal government

Individuals, Concepts, and Ideologies
  • Social Darwinism

  • Gospel of Wealth

  • Social Gospel

  • Nativism

Documents to Know
  • Populist Party Platform - 1892

  • Thomas Nast political cartoons

  • Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" - 1889

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decision - 1896

  • Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis - 1893

  • Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882

  • Henry George's Progress and Poverty - 1879

  • Sherman Antitrust Act - 1890

  • William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech - 1896

  • Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor - 1881

  • Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward - 1888

Continuities
  • Violence against


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MALACHI MOSS APUSH PERIOD 6

Period 6: 1865-1898
Key Concepts
  • Key Concept 6.1: Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.

    • This concept constitutes 10-17% of the exam.

  • Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.

  • Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.

Events and Legislation
  • Continental Railroad - 1869

  • Battle of Little Big Horn - 1876

  • Standard Oil Trust - 1870

  • Munn vs. Illinois - 1877

  • Great Railway Strike - 1877

  • Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882

  • Pendleton Act - 1883

  • Interstate Commerce Act - 1887

  • AFL (American Federation of Labor) Founded - 1886

  • Dawes Act - 1887

  • Sherman Antitrust Act - 1890

  • Ghost Dance - 1890

  • Atlanta Compromise - 1895

  • Haymarket Square Strike - 1886

  • American Protective Association - 1887

  • Populist Party formed - 1892

  • Plessy v. Ferguson - 1896

Themes
  • NAT (American & National Identity)

  • WXT (Work, Exchange, & Technology)

  • GEO (Geography & the Environment)

  • MIG (Migration & Settlement)

  • PCE (Politics and Power)

  • WOR (America in the World)

  • ARC (American & Regional Culture)

  • SOC (Social Structures)

Details to Know
  1. Improvements in mechanization

  2. Growth of railroads

  3. Pull factors for westward expansion

  4. Conflict with indigenous populations/violation of treaties

  5. Preservation of tribal autonomy

  6. Extent that a New South was established

  7. Technological innovations used by businesses

  8. Business practices to increase profit & consolidate wealth

  9. Growth of industrial capitalism

  10. Growing wealth disparities and the rise of the middle class

  11. Conflict between labor and management

  12. Changes in labor (immigrants, children, women)

  13. Pull and Push factors for immigration

  14. Development of ethnic enclaves

  15. Growth of Social Darwinism vs. Gospel of Wealth & Social Gospel

  16. Divisions between political parties & role of the federal government

Individuals, Concepts, and Ideologies
  • Social Darwinism

  • Gospel of Wealth

  • Social Gospel

  • Nativism

Documents to Know
  • Populist Party Platform - 1892

  • Thomas Nast political cartoons

  • Andrew Carnegie's "Gospel of Wealth" - 1889

  • Plessy v. Ferguson decision - 1896

  • Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis - 1893

  • Chinese Exclusion Act - 1882

  • Henry George's Progress and Poverty - 1879

  • Sherman Antitrust Act - 1890

  • William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech - 1896

  • Helen Hunt Jackson's A Century of Dishonor - 1881

  • Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward - 1888

Continuities
  • Violence against