APUSH Review Activity 6 _ Concept Outline Time Period 6
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Review Activity #6
College Board Concept Outline
Period 6: 1865 to 1898
Directions: The Concept Outline below presents the required concepts and topics that students need to understand for the APUSH test. The statements in the outline
focus on large-scale historical processes and major d...
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APUSH
Review Activity #6
College Board Concept Outline
Period 6: 1865 to 1898
Directions: The Concept Outline below presents the required concepts and topics that students need to understand for the APUSH test. The statements in the outline
focus on large-scale historical processes and major developments. Our course has focused on specific and significant historical evidence from the past that illustrate each
of these developments and processes. Complete each table on the outline below by choosing two specific examples of relevant historical evidence that illustrate the
concepts in greater detail. You may choose from among the ones provided OR provide one of your own. Define or describe the example and explain its significance to the
thesis statement directly above the box.
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.
I. Large-scale industrial production — accompanied by massive technological change, expanding international communication networks, and pro-growth government
policies — generated rapid economic development and business consolidation.
A. Following the Civil War, government subsidies for transportation and communication systems helped open new markets in North America.
Examples: Federal and state loans and land grants to transcontinental railroads, Credit Mobilier Scandal, transatlantic telegraph cable (1866)
Example Definition/Description Significance to the Thesis
Credit Mobilier Scandal Stockholders of Union Pacific Railroad made This scandal was done during trying to make the first
a company & put in or gave away shares of continental railroad in which this encourages
construction. transportation.
Transatlantic telegraph cable (1866) An undersea cable running under the Atlantic This product also encouraged a new market of a
Ocean used for telegraph communications. new industrial nation.
B. Businesses made use of technological innovations, greater access to natural resources, redesigned financial and management structures, advances in
marketing, and a growing labor force to dramatically increase the production of goods.
Examples: John D. Rockefeller (oil), J.P. Morgan (banking), Andrew Carnegie (Bessemer steel), Alexander Graham Bell (telephone), Cornelius Vanderbilt
(railroads), Cyrus Field (transatlantic telegraph), Montgomery Ward mail order catalog
Example Definition/Description Significance to the Thesis
John D. Rockefeller He was known as the businessman in the oil This shows the boom of marketing & business in the
industry, also known as the wealthiest man ever. after civil war era and the competitiveness created
through the business industry.
Andrew Carnegie He was the at the top of the steel/metal industry & This shows the boom of marketing & business in the
after civil war era and the competitiveness created
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, was known to be a robber baron. through the business industry & the many job opportunity
opened through these companies.
C. As the price of many goods decreased, workers’ real wages increased, providing new access to a variety of goods and services; many Americans’
standards of living improved, while the gap between rich and poor grew.
Examples: Gilded Age by Mark Twain (1873), Boss Tweed (1869-1876), tenement housing, Century of Dishonor by Helen Hunt Jackson (1881), How
the Other Half Lives by Jacob Riis (1890)
Example Definition/Description Significance to the Thesis
Century of Dishonor Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson in 1881 to This connects to the thesis in the way that the living
change what the stereotype of Native were & to conditions & treatment of Natives was poor and horrible.
bring awareness to their mistreatment.
How the Other Half Lives Book written by Jacob Riis in 1890 to show the This shows how manys’ living conditions bettered, the
poor and sad conditions of tenements and how other half was still living in the slums just to survive.
they lived to survive.
D. Many business leaders sought increased profits by consolidating corporations into large trusts and holding companies, which further concentrated wealth.
Examples: near monopoly, Standard Oil Trust (1882), holding company, business pool, horizontal integration, vertical integration,
Example Definition/Description Significance to the Thesis
vertical integration This was a method used to go further up on the This connects to the thesis in showing a method used by
economic chain, which was to combine separate them to stay on top of their business.
companies that produce different products into
one.
horizontal integration This is another technique used by businesses, This also shows another technique used by business
process of a company increasing production of leaders continue in being the leader of their industry.
goods or services at the same part of the supply
chain
E. Businesses and foreign policymakers increasingly looked outside U.S. borders in an effort to gain greater influence and control over markets and natural
resources in the Pacific Rim, Asia, and Latin America.
Examples: Purchase of Alaska (1867), Influence of Sea Power upon History by Alfred T. Mahan (1890) Turner Thesis (1893), Treaty of Paris (1898) and the
acquisition of Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Philippines, annexation of Hawaii (1898), John Hay’s Open Door Note (1899)
Example Definition/Description Significance to the Thesis
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