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Chapter 7 – issues of the gilded age 1877-1900
Chapter 7 Key Terms and People
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Poll Tax
2
Literacy Test
3
Grandfather
Clause
4
Booker T.
Washington
5
W.E.B. Du Bois
6
Ida B. Wells
7
Las Gorras
Blancas
8
Spoils system
9
Civil Service
10
Pendleton Civil
Service Act
11
Gold Standard
12
Oliver H. Kelly
13
Grange
14
Populist Party
15
William
Jennings Bryan
16
William
McKinley
Chapter 7.1 – segregation and social tensions
The ways in which different groups challenged Reconstruction. ADD additional circles.
AFRICAN
AMERICANS
MEXICAN
AMERICANS
CHALLENGING
DISCRIMINATION
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
How were the civil and political rights of
certain groups in America undermined
during the years after Reconstruction?
7.1 Objectives
Assess how whites created
a segregated society in the
South and how African
Americans responded.
Analyze efforts to limit
immigration and the
effects.
Compare the situations of
Mexican Americans and of
women to those of other
groups.
Chapter 7.2 – political and economic challenges
*The issues that dominated national politics in the 1870s and 1880s.
I. Politics and Economics
A. Political Stalemate
1.
B. Corruption in Politics
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3.
C. Economic Issues Challenge the Nation
1.
2.
FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
Why did the political structure change
during the Gilded Age?
7.2 Objectives
Analyze the issue of
corruption in national
politics in the 1870s and
1880s.
Discuss civil service reform
during the 1870s and
1880s
Assess the importance of
economic issues in the
politics of the Gilded Age.
Chapter 7.3 – Farmers and Populism
The reasons that farmers in the South and West felt the need to organize and the effects of their effort.
CAUSE
EVENT
EFFECTS
• Falling Prices
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FARMERS
ORGANIZE
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FOCUS QUESTIONS: Answer each question completely.
What led to the rise of the Populist
movement, and what effect did it have?
7.3 Objectives
Analyze the problems
farmers faced and the
groups they formed to
address them.
Assess the goals of the
Populists, and explain why
the Populist Party did not
last.