AP US History Period 6 1877 to 1898

AP US History Period 6 1877 - 1898
Table of Contents
Exploitation of The American Frontier
 Frederick Jackson Tuner’s – Frontier Thesis (1893)
 Homestead Act of 1862
 Morrill Land Grants
 Transcontinental Railroad
 Settling the West: Farming Frontier
 The Frontier and Natives
 Indian Wars
 Americanization of Natives
Robber Barron or Captain of Industry
 Cornelius Vanderbilt and Railroad
o Farmers Vs Railroad
o Granger Movement
o Farmers Alliance
 Andrew Carnegie and Steel
 John D. Rockefeller and Oil
 Henry Ford and Model T
 Electricity
 Monumental Innovations
 Consumerism
Politics and Economics of the Gilded Age
 Political Machines and Boss Politics
 Election of 1868
 Ulysses S. Grant (R) (1869 – 1877)
 Panic of 1973
 Election of 1876
 Compromise of 1877
 Rutherford B. Hayes (R) (1877 – 1881)
 Election of 1880
 James A. Garfield (R) (1881)
 Civil Service Reform
 Chester A. Arther (R) (1881 – 1885)
 Election of 1888
 Grover Cleveland (D) (1885 – 1889)
 Benjamin Harrison (R) (1889 – 1893)
 The Populist Movement
 Bimetallism
 Election of 1892
 Panic of 1893
 William Jennings Bryan (D)
 Election of 1896

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, Exploitation of The American Frontier
Frederick Jackson Turner’s – Frontier Thesis (1893)
 Frontier is “the meeting point between savagery and civilization.”
 The Frontier defined the American Identify.
 U.S. Census of 1890 claims American frontier is closed.
Homestead Act of 1862
Parameters
 160-acre plots for minimum of 5 years
 File application, improve the land, file for deed.
Demographics
 Eastern Families
 Exodusters
 Old Immigrants

Morrill Land Grants
Purpose
“To Teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such
manner as the legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal
and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”

Parameters
 30,000 acres of federal land.

Colleges
 University of Florida
 Florida A&M
 MIT
 Cornell

Transcontinental Railroad
 Pacific Railways Acts

First Transcontinental Railroad
 Central Pacific and Union Pacific
 Promontory Point (1869)

Impact
 Communication
 Settlement and Expansion
 Commerce

Innovations
 Standardized gauges
 Time Zone



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