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Issues of the Gilded Age
Test Review Guide
Materials to study from:
 Notes – Unit vocabulary
 Reading Notes ~ Chapter 7.2
 Video guide ~ Presidents: Grant to Cleveland
 Lecture Notes ~ Economic and Political Challenges of the Gilded Age
 Worksheet ~ Labor Conditions Were Poor
 Worksheet ~ Hardships Lead to Labor Unions
 Lecture Notes ~ Unions and Collective Bargaining
 Worksheet ~ Strikes Rock the Nation
 Video Guide ~ Homestead Strike
 Lecture Notes ~ Opposition to Unions
 In-class worksheet ~ Plessy V. Ferguson
 Notes ~ Jim Crow Laws and Plessy V. Ferguson
 In class worksheet ~ Discrimination in the Gilded Age
Topics/Concepts to study:
irony of the term “Gilded Age”
spoils system
civil service reform
Pendleton Civil Service Act
causes of political inaction in the
Gilded Age
tariffs – who liked them, who did not,
& why
What caused the debate over
currency?
examples of labor conditions
collective bargaining
weapons of business vs. weapons of
laborers
Unions: leaders, goals, successes &
failures
o American Railway Union
o Knights of Labor
o American Federation of Labor
o Terrence V. Powderly
o Samuel Gompers
o Eugene V. Debs
Haymarket Riot, Homestead Strike &
Pullman Strike
socialism
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy V. Ferguson
Discrimination against:
o African Americans
o Chinese Americans
o Mexican Americans
o women
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Ida B. Wells
Las Gorras Blancas