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U.S. History Unit 2:

From Agrarian to Industrial Power

Industrial Age, Progressive Movement, Populism, Gilded Age

Essential Questions:

  • How did the U.S. Government acquire the continental resources to feed the American Industrial Age?
  • What and who were the identifying characteristics of the American Industrial Age and how does it relate to Imperialism?
  • How did business practices in the economy impact society?

Chapters: 5-3, 6, 8-1, 9

Industrial Age                      Progressive Era                                                Populism

Bessemer Process              Prohibition                                            populism

Thomas Alva Edison           Muckrakers                                            W.J. Bryan

Alexander Graham Bell        Robert M. La Follette                             Pendelton

George Pullman                  Election Reform                                                Bimetallism

Credit Mobilier                     Initiative                                                Grange

The Wright Brothers             Referendum                                          gold standard

George Eastman                 Recall                                                   W. McKinley

Andrew Carnegie                 17th Amendment                                    Panic 1893

Vertical Integration               Upton Sinclair                                      

Horizontal Integration           Theodore Roosevelt                 

Social Darwinism                 Square Deal                             

John D. Rockefeller             Trustbusting                             

Robber Barons                    Meat Inspection Act                  

Sherman Anti Trust Act        Pure Food and Drug Act                       

Collusion                            Conservation                            

Monopoly                           William Howard Taft                  

Samuel Gompers                Tariff                                       

Eugene V. Debs                  Bull Moose Party

IWW                                   Federal Trade Commission

Strike of 1877                      Clayton Anti Trust Act

Haymarket                           Federal Reserve

Homestead Strike                16th Amendment

Pullman Strike                     Federal Reserve