UNIT 7: The West and The Gilded Age: Politics and Industry
PERIOD 6 (1865-1898)
TIME FRAME: (4 weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date: Feb.17th (Day B)/Feb 18th
(Day A) for HIPPOS, Presidency Charts, and Terms/IDs. PACE YOURSELF
ACCORDINGLY- LAST WEEK OF UNIT PLAN SHOULD BE STRICTLY REVIEW!!
Big Picture:
The Gilded Age fostered the consolidation of business, the government, and disadvantaged
economic and social classes.
Essential Question: What were the social, political, and economic effects of the Gilded Age?
Themes:
Diversity, identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations, environment,
globalization, politics and citizenship, reform
Required Reading:
Chapter 17; 16; 18-19 in AMSCO book
PowerPoint organization: Ch.17 West and South; Ch.18 Industrialization; Ch.19 Urbanization;
Ch.20 Populist Era
Primary Sources for HIPPOS analysis:
The Significance of the Frontier in American History; Frederick Jackson Turner
Cross of Gold; William Jennings Bryan
Presidency Charts:
Complete a presidency chart on: James A. Garfield & Chester A. Arthur, Grover Cleveland,
Benjamin Harrison
TO BE DONE IN CLASS:
Short Response Questions:
A total of four (4) short response questions for ch.18 (Industrialization) to be done in class after
we finish it.
DBQ:
A DBQ will be given after the unit is over, the day after the Unit 7 test. This DBQ will consist
of concepts covered throughout the unit (specifically: industrialization & and Gilded Age). You
are NOT allowed to bring the DBQ rubric; make sure you know it by then.
Content:
Expansion of manufacturing and industrialization
Expansion and development of western railroads
Competitors for the West: miners, ranchers, homesteaders, and American Indians
Government policy toward American Indians
Gender, race, and ethnicity in the far West
Environmental impacts of western settlement
Corporate consolidation of industry
Effects of technological development on the worker and workplace
Labor and unions
National politics and influence of corporate power
Migration and immigration: the changing face of the nation
Proponents and opponents of the new order, e .g ., Social Darwinism and Social Gospel
Urbanization and the lure of the city
City problems and machine politics
Intellectual and cultural movements and popular entertainment
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TERMS/IDs
Second Industrial Revolution
subsidy
Credit Mobilier
“robber baron”
vertical integration
horizontal integration
trusts
interlocking directorates
Bessemer process
“nouveau riche”
Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
Herbert Spencer
Social Darwinism
William Graham Sumner
Rev. Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
“Gospel of Wealth”
“New South”
Henry Grady
James B. Duke
Sharecropping
crop lien system
collective bargaining
“yellow dog” contracts
National Labor Union
Colored National Labor Union
Molly Maguires
Terence Powderly
Samuel Gompers
“bread and butter” issues
“closed shop”
walk-outs
boycotts
Injunction
urbanization
skyscrapers
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Louis Sullivan
Brooklyn Bridge
street car suburbs
department stores
dumbbell tenements
political machines
Tammany Hall
“Boss” Tweed
Thomas Nast
“honest graft”
“Old Immigration”
“New Immigration”
Burlingame Treaty
Salvation Army
Settlement House Movement
Lillian Wald
Florence Kelley
Red Cross, Clara Barton
American Protective Association (APA)
Rev. Josiah Strong
The New Morality
Victoria Woodhull
Comstock Law
fundamentalism
modernism
The Nation
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backwards
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Horatio Alger
Realist School
Plains Indians
“exodusters”
Treaty of Ft. Laramie, 1868
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Buffalo Regiment
Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876
“Ghost Dance”
three western frontier: mining, farming, ranching
Joseph Glidden
twine binder
John Pillsbury
Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889
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“safety valve” thesis
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Granger Laws
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Sub-treasury plan
“Pitchfork” Benjamin Tillman
Omaha Platform
“free silver”
graduated income tax
government ownership of railroads
postal savings banks
Ignatius Donnelly
Morgan Bond Transaction
Coin’s Financial School, William Hope Harvey
Election of 1896
Marcus Hanna
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“4th Party System”