UNIT 6: The Gilded Age: Politics and Industry (1865-1900)
TIME FRAME: (3weeks) Tentative Exam Date and Due Date Feb.11th (Day A)/Feb 12th (Day B)
for Binder, Terms, AP PARTS documents, presidential worksheets. 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.
Themes:
Diversity, identity, culture, demographic changes, economic transformations, environment, globalization,
politics and citizenship, reform
Required Reading:
Chapters: 16 (469-471), 17, 18, 19, 20 in Divine
Primary Sources:
 Amillionairetobillionaire
 Crossofgold
 Firststepsonnewsoil
 Howcanicallthishome
 Politicalgraft
 praiseformechanization
FRQs
1) Analyze the impact of any TWO of the following on the American industrial
worker between 1865 and 1900.
 Government actions
 Immigration
 Labor unions
 Technological changes
2) How were the lives of the Plains Indians in the second half of the nineteenth
century affected by technological developments and government actions?
3) Analyze the reasons for the emergence of the Populist movement in the late
nineteenth century.
4) Compare and contrast the attitudes of THREE of the following toward the
wealth that was created in the United States during the late nineteenth century.
 Andrew Carnegie
 Eugene V. Debs
 Horatio Alger
 Booker T. Washington
 Ida M. Tarbell
TERMS TO KNOW
1) Second Industrial Revolution
2) steel industry
3) oil industry, kerosene
4) electricity
5) transcontinental railroad
6) subsidy
7) Pacific Railway Act
8) Union Pacific
9) Credit Mobilier
10) Central Pacific
11) Leland Stanford
12) James G. Hill
13) Cornelius Vanderbilt
14) “robber baron”
15) Munn v. Illinois, 1877
16) Wabash case, 1886
17) Interstate Commerce Act
18) Telephone Thomas Edison
19) vertical integration
20) Andrew Carnegie
21) horizontal integration
22) trusts
23) John D. Rockefeller
24) Standard Oil Company
25) J. P. Morgan
26) interlocking directorates
27) Bessemer process
28) United States Steel Corp
29) “nouveau riche”
30) Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
31) Herbert Spencer
32) Social Darwinism
33) “survival of the fittest”
34) William Graham Sumner
35) Rev. Russell Conwell, Acres of Diamonds
36) “Gospel of Wealth”
37) Sherman Anti-Trust Act
38) “New South”
39) Henry Grady
40) James B. Duke
41) Sharecropping
42) crop lien system
43) “The Lost Cause”
44) collective bargaining
45) “yellow dog” contracts
46) National Labor Union
47) Colored National Labor Union
48) Molly Maguires
49) Great Railroad Strike
50) Knights of Labor
51) Terence Powderly
52) “one big union”
53) Haymarket Square bombing
54) American Federation of Labor
55) Samuel Gompers
56) “bread and butter” issues
57) “closed shop”
58) walk-outs
59) boycotts
60) “8 hours for work, 8 hours for rest, 8 hours for what we will”
61) Homestead Steel Strike
62) Pullman Strike
63) Eugene Debs
64) Injunction
65) urbanization
66) skyscrapers
67) Louis Sullivan
68) Brooklyn Bridge
69) street car suburbs
70) department stores
71) dumbbell tenements
72) political machines
73) Tammany Hall
74) “Boss” Tweed
75) Thomas Nast
76) “honest graft”
77) “Old Immigration”
78) “New Immigration”
79) Ellis Island
80) Burlingame Treaty
81) Chinese Exclusion Act
82) Social Gospel
83) Salvation Army
84) Settlement House Movement
85) Jane Addams, Hull House
86) Lillian Wald
87) Florence Kelley
88) Red Cross, Clara Barton
89) Nativism
90) American Protective Association (APA)
91) Rev. Josiah Strong
92) The New Morality
93) Victoria Woodhull
94) Comstock Law
95) Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU)
96) Francis Willard
97) Carrie Nation
98) Anti-Saloon League
99) National American Women’s Suffrage Association
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Charles Darwin, Origin of the Species
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theory of Evolution
102)
fundamentalism
103)
modernism
104)
The Nation
105)
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
106)
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backwards
107)
Jacob Riis, How the other Half Lives
108)
Henry Demarest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth
109)
Thorstein Veblen, The Theory of the Leisure Class
110)
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Horatio Alger
112)
Realist School
113)
Frederick Jackson Turner
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Plains Indians
115)
“exodusters”
116)
Sioux
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Treaty of Ft. Laramie, 1868
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Bureau of Indian Affairs
119)
Buffalo Regiment
120)
Sand Creek Massacre, 1864
121)
Sitting Bull
122)
General George Custer
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Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876
124)
Crazy Horse
125)
Nez Perce, Chief Joseph
126)
Apache, Geronimo
127)
“Ghost Dance”
128)
Wounded Knee, 1890
129)
Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor, 1881
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Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
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three western frontier: mining, farming, ranching
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Comstock Lode
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“long drive”
134)
cowboys
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barbed-wire, Joseph Glidden
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Homestead Act, 1862
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twine binder
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“combine”
139)
John Pillsbury
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Oklahoma Land Rush, 1889
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1890 census
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“safety valve” thesis
143)
crop-lien system
144)
The Grange
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Granger Laws
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Munn v. Illinois, 1877
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Wabash case, 1886
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Greenback Labor Party
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Farmers’ Alliances
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subtreasury plan
The People’s Party (Populist Party)
“Pitchfork” Benjamin Tillman
Omaha Platform
“free silver”
graduated income tax
government ownership of railroads
initiative, referendum and recall
direct election of senators
postal savings banks
Ignatius Donnelly
Homestead Steel Strike
Election of 1892
President Grover Cleveland
Panic of 1893
Morgan Bond Transaction
Coxey’s Army
Pullman Strike, 1894
Coin’s Financial School, William Hope Harvey
Election of 1896
William McKinley
Marcus Hanna
bimetallism
William Jennings Bryan
“Cross of Gold Speech”
“4th Party System”