Period 6 (1865-1898)
The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly
industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political,
diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.
Key Concepts
6.1: The rise of Big Business in the U.S. encouraged massive migrations and urbanization, sparked
government and popular efforts to reshape the U.S. economy and environment, and renewed debates
over U.S. national identity.
6.2: The emergence of an industrial culture in the U.S. led to both greater opportunities for, and
restrictions on, immigrants, minorities, and women.
6.3: The “Gilded Age” witnessed new cultural and intellectual movements in tandem with political
debates over economic and social policies.
The American Pageant Chapters:
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Big Business
urbanization
industrialization
Gilded Age
conspicuous consumption
marketing
business consolidation
subsidies
monopolies/trusts
capitalism
Political Machine
Tammany Hall Ring
Thomas Nast
Boss Tweed
Credit Mobilier Scandal
spoils system
Election of 1876
Compromise of 1877
New South
Jim Crow
Plessy v. Ferguson
Pendleton Civil Service Act
McKinley Tariff
Age of Railroads
Transcontinental RR
Vanderbilt
Bessemer Process
Alexander Bell and Thomas Edison
Carnegie and Steel
Rockefeller and Oil
JP Morgan
Social Darwinism
philanthropy
Things to Know:
Vertical and Horizontal Integration
Gospel of Wealth
Henry George
Edward Bellamy
Sherman Anti-trust Act
Southern economy
Effects of Industrialization
Unions/Labor Movement
Strikes
Knights of Labor and Powderly
American Federation of Labor (AFL)
Samuel Gompers
Haymarket Affair/Riots
Mother Jones
Laissez-faire
Interstate Commerce Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
Socialism
New Immigrants
Americanization/assimilation
Nativism
Jane Addams and Hull House
Social Gospel
Settlement houses
18th Amendment
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Chinese Exclusion Act
American Protective Association
Booker T. Washington
WEB DuBois and NAACP
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
NACW
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and NAWSA
Susan B. Anthony
Morrill Act and Hatch Act
Land-grant colleges
Comstock Law
Frances Willard and the WCTU
Sand Creek Massacre
Little Big Horn
Chief Joseph/Nez Perce
General George Armstrong Custer
Helen Hunt Jackson A Century of Dishonor
Dawes Severalty Act 1887
Carlisle Indian School
Assimilation
Fifty-niners
Long Drive
Homestead Act of 1862
Klondike Gold Rush 1890s
1890 – Closing of the Frontier
Ghost Dance Movement
Battle of Wounded Knee
The Grange and Grange Laws
Greenback Labor Party
Plight of the farmers
Populist Party and their platform
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Sherman Silver Purchase Act of 1890
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Panic of 1893
Coxey’s Army
Election of 1896
“Cross of Gold” Speech
WJ Bryan v. W. McKinley
Gold Standard Act of 1900