We are born in a Pullman house. We are fed from a Pullman shop, taught in a Pullman school, catechized in the Pullman church and when we die we shall be buried in a Pullman cemetery and go to a Pullman hell
– Pullman employee on life in Pullman town, 1883
Essential Questions
- How did debates over American democratic culture and the proximity of many different cultures living in close contact affect changing definitions of national identity?
- How did the growth of mass manufacturing in the rapidly urbanizing North affect definitions of and relationships between workers, and those for whom they worked? How did the continuing dominance of agriculture and the slave system affect southern social, political, and economic life?
- How did the continued movement of individuals and groups into, out of, and within the United States shape the development of new communities and the evolution of old communities?
- How did the growth of ideals of mass democracy, including such concerns as expanding suffrage, public education, abolitionism, and care for the needy affect political life and discourse?
- How did the United States use diplomatic and economic means to project its power in the western hemisphere? How did foreign governments and individuals describe and react to the new American nation?
- How did environmental and geographic factors affect the development of sectional economics and identities?
- How did the idea of democratization shape and reflect American arts, literature, ideals, and culture?
Identifications
**Bold words are specifically mentioned in the AP US History Course Description and can be referenced directly on the AP Exam.
- Agricultural Wheel
- Americanization
- American Federation of Labor
- Atlanta Compromise
- Bosque Redondo
- Bread and Roses Strike
- Carlisle Indian School
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Closing of the Frontier
- Colored Farmers’ National Alliance and Cooperative Union
- Conspicuous Consumption
- Coxey’s Army
- Dawes Act
- Farmers’ Alliance
- Federal Trade Commission
- Ghost Dance
- Gilded Age
- Gospel of Wealth
- Grants Peace Policy
- Haymarket
- Holding Companies
- Homestead Act
- Horizontal Integration
- Ida B. Wells
- Indian Wars/Reservations
- Industrial Capitalism
- Industrial Workers of the World
- Industrialization
- Initiative
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Jane Adams
- JP Morgan
- Labor Unions
- Laissez-faire
- Little Big Horn
- Ludlow Massacre
- Melting Pot
- Monopolies
- Muckrakers
- Mugwumps
- NAACP
- National Parks
- New Freedom
- New immigrants vs. native born
- New South
- Niagara Movement
- Panic of 1873
- Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act
- People’s Party (Populists)
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Pogroms
- Political Machine
- Progressive Reformers
- Recall
- Referendum
- Settlement Houses
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Single Tax Movement
- Social Darwinism
- Social Gospel
- Stalwarts
- subtreasury system
- Sweatshops
- Tammany Hall
- The Grange
- The Knights of Labor
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
- Trusts
- United Mine Workers of America
- Urban Middle Class
- Vertical Integration
- Women’s Christian Temperance Union
- Xenophobia
Topics
The West
Industrialization
Responses to Industrialization
Progressivism
Unit Review