Mini-Assessment 2 Study Guide

Below are topics that you will encounter on mini-assessment #2 on Monday.

1. What were the effects of the railroad, telegraph, telephone, and automobiles in America? Together, they stimulated the rise of a national market.

2. The cartoon below was published in Puck magazine in 1904

What is the meaning of this political cartoon? Look up it's meaning. 

3. Look up the Homestead Strike 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894. How are these major strikes similar? 

The poster below was published in 1886 in Chicago.

4. What was the purpose of the poster presented above? 

5. Which problem did American factory workers face in the late 19th century?

6. Immigrants and Ellis Island in the late 1800s. 

7. What would the person who created the cartoon above agree with? 

8. How did migration from farms to cities encourage the growth of reform movements?

9. Look up the impact of the Progressive Movement.

10. What was the attitude of Progressives towards trusts? 

The chart below lists important laws passed by Congress during the Progressive era.

11. What do these laws demonstrate about the views of Progressives on public policy?