UNIT TWO OUTLINE

History 2223    US History II

Transformations: the Land and the “System”.
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Unit 2 Objective: This unit focuses on transformations—both in the environment and in the political landscapes.

I. Matching-- Identifications. I will choose terms from this list for you to match with their identification.

Chapter 20	Chapter 21	Chapter 22
“The Gilded Age”	Little Bighorn	The Spoils System
Social Darwinism	Wounded Knee	Pendleton Civil Service Act
Knights of Labor	Dawes Act	McKinley Tariff Act
Naturalization Act	Chisholm Trail	Omaha Platform
The “Great Migration”	Las Gorras Blancas	Coxey’s Army

II. Short Essay Terms

1. Nativism

2. Election of 1896.

3. The “Agrarian Myth”

4. Frontier Thesis

5. “Gilded Age”

III. Long Essays Terms

1. “Preconditions of growth”

2. Impacts of Industrialism

3. Social Philosophers (Social Darwinism versus Social Gospel)

3. Herbert Spencer

4. Progressive Era

5. The transformation of the West

6. Resource Conservation

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