Friday, December 16, 2011

11/4 Industrialization

Ch. 7 S3 and S4 Reading Guide

S3
1. What was the impact of gold strikes? What happened after the easily gathered gold was gone?
2. What were the causes of the cattle boom? What was Cowboy life really like?
3. How did farming improve due to machinery, technology and new farming techniques?

Identify the following:
4. placer mining 5. long drive 6. dry farming

S4.
7. What was the U.S. monetary policy during this time.?
8. What was the Cross of Gold Speech? Who gave it?
9. What was the Interstate Commerce Act?
10. What was the Bland-Allison Act?

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