History 1302Week Two Assignment

1. In much of the 19th century, women in Texas were not allowed to ___________________ outside the home.

2. The historian Frederick Jackson Turner argued that the ____________________ shaped America’s national character.

3. From the end of the Civil War to the turn of the century the value of __________________________ increased six fold.

4. The _______________________ industry was “the first big business, the first magnet for the great financial markets, and the first industry to develop a large-scale management bureaucracy.

5. The number of inventions registered at the U.S. Patent’s Office __________________________ ___________________________ during the 19th century.

6. Nikola Tesla’s invention of the alternating-current motor made it possible for __________________ ____________________ to locate away from waterfalls.

7. Unlike Rockefeller and Carnegie, J. Pierpont Morgan was born to _______________________.

8. Sears, Roebuck and Company was a pioneer in selling goods by ____________________.

9. During the Gilded Age, the rich were getting richer and a lot of other people were at least a lot ______________________ ________________________.

10. Most Americans experienced a rising ________________________ __________________________ ________________________ in the late nineteenth century.

11. In terms of industrial work, children working in the late 1800s suffered ______________________ times as many accidents as adult workers.

12. ________________________ _______________________ used intimidation, beatings, and killings to right perceived wrongs against Irish workers.

13. Many Americans were afraid that the Railroad Strike of 1877 was the beginning of a worker-based ___________________________ ______________________________.

14. The Sand-Lot incident was an effort to subdue the Asian people known as the ________________________.

15. _________________________ believed that government was in itself an abusive device used by the rich and powerful to oppress and exploit the working poor.

16. The ___________________________ ___________________________ grew indirectly out of agitation for an eight-hour workday.

17. Due to a major unrest in Chicago in 1886, Terence Powderly and the Knights of Labor were never able to make people believe that they were not in opposition to the ____________________________.

18. Marxism was imported to the United States mainly through the work of the ________________________.

19. ____________________________ _______________________ was the Social Democratic party’s candidate for president in 1904

20. The socialist party came to an end primarily over disagreements concerning ______________________________ ___________________________ ____________.