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.
- Large-scale industrial production — accompanied by massive technological change, expanding international communication networks, and pro-growth government
- Following the Civil War, government subsidies for transportation and communication systems helped open new markets in North America.
- Businesses made use of technological innovations, greater access to natural resources, redesigned financial and management structures, advances in
policies — generated rapid economic development and business consolidation.
Examples: Federal and state loans and land grants to transcontinental railroads, Credit Mobilier Scandal, transatlantic telegraph cable (1866) ExampleDefinition/DescriptionSignificance to the Thesis Credit Mobilier Scandal Stockholders of Union Pacific Railroad made a company & put in or gave away shares of construction.This scandal was done during trying to make the first continental railroad in which this encourages transportation.Transatlantic telegraph cable (1866)An undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications.This product also encouraged a new market of a new industrial nation.
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 ExampleDefinition/DescriptionSignificance to the Thesis John D. Rockefeller He was known as the businessman in the oil industry, also known as the wealthiest man ever.This shows the boom of marketing & business in the 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.
- As the price of many goods decreased, workers’ real wages increased, providing new access to a variety of goods and services; many Americans’
- Many business leaders sought increased profits by consolidating corporations into large trusts and holding companies, which further concentrated wealth.
- Businesses and foreign policymakers increasingly looked outside U.S. borders in an effort to gain greater influence and control over markets and natural
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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) ExampleDefinition/DescriptionSignificance to the Thesis Century of Dishonor Book written by Helen Hunt Jackson in 1881 to change what the stereotype of Native were & to bring awareness to their mistreatment.This connects to the thesis in the way that the living conditions & treatment of Natives was poor and horrible.How the Other Half Lives Book written by Jacob Riis in 1890 to show the poor and sad conditions of tenements and how they lived to survive.This shows how manys’ living conditions bettered, the other half was still living in the slums just to survive.
Examples: near monopoly, Standard Oil Trust (1882), holding company, business pool, horizontal integration, vertical integration, ExampleDefinition/DescriptionSignificance to the Thesis vertical integration This was a method used to go further up on the economic chain, which was to combine separate companies that produce different products into one.This connects to the thesis in showing a method used by them to stay on top of their business.horizontal integration This is another technique used by businesses, process of a company increasing production of goods or services at the same part of the supply chain This also shows another technique used by business leaders continue in being the leader of their industry.
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) ExampleDefinition/DescriptionSignificance to the Thesis