TERMS FOR GILDED AGE
POLITICS IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY
Bradwell v. Illinois
Minor v. Happensett
The Gilded Age (book)
James G. Blaine
Stalwarts
Mugwumps
Half-Breeds
James Bryce, The American Commonwealth
President Cleveland's 1887 annual message (on the tariff)
note the connection between high tariffs, the federal government's treasury surplus, and spending the surplus
on pensions and patronage
The money question: greenbacks vs. bimetallism
"Crime of '73"
Bland-Allison Act
The spoils system
Civil service
The Pendleton Act
Political machines
Tammany Hall
William “Boss” Tweed
Election of 1884: Cleveland versus Blaine
"Rum, Romanism, and rebellion"
Grand Army of the Republic Pension
Election of 1876
REFORM
Frances Willard
WCTU
Social Darwinism
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
The settlement house movement
*Jane Addams; Hull House
*Vida Scudder; Denison House
*Lillian Wald; Henry Street House
Women’s Suffrage
*NAWSA
*Carrie Chapman Catt
BUSINESS AND LABOR
Producer goods v. consumer goods
Bessemer converter
John Pierpont Morgan, financier
Vertical integration
Horizontal integration
Economies of scale
John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil
Limited liability, a legal entity
Panic/Depression of 1873-1879 and 1893-1897
Robber Baron v. Captain of Industry
William H. Vanderbilt, "the public be damned"
Frank Norris, The Octopus
Upton Sinclair, The Jungle
1892 Omaha Platform of the Populist Party
Rev. Russell Conwell, "Acres of Diamonds" speech
Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth"
Edward Bellamy, Looking Backwards, 2000-1887
LABOR
1877 railroad strike, the first nationwide strike
National Labor Union
Knights of Labor
Terence Powderly
Haymarket Square riot
American Federation of Labor
Samuel Gompers
International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU)
Coeur d'Alene strike
Western Federation of Miners
Scabs
Pinkerton (strikebreakers)
Homestead Strike
Henry Clay Frick
Pullman Strike
Eugene V. Debs
American Railway Union
Pullman strike---Note: Attorney General Richard Olney, President Cleveland sends federal
troops, the injunction, Debs becomes a socialist while in jail
Chinese Exclusion Act
AFRICAN AMERICANS IN THE LATE 19th CENTURY
Supreme Court cases
Slaughterhouse Cases
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
"New South"
Sharecropping
Crop liens
Debt peonage
Black Codes
DisenfranchisementPoll Tax, Literacy Tests, Grandfather Clause
W.E.B. DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute, Alabama
The "Atlanta Compromise"
POPULISM
(Note the decline of farmers as a percentage of the work force, 1860 to 1900, 60% to 37%)
"bonanza" farms
Order of Patrons of Husbandry (National Grange)
Grain elevators
Granger laws
Munn v. Illinois, 1877
Wabash v. Illinois, 1886
Interstate Commerce Act (ICC) Interstate Commerce Commission
Southern Farmers Alliance
Colored Farmers Alliance
Populist Party, 1892
James B. Weaver
The Omaha Platform, 1892
URBANIZATION
Electric light, 1879; Telephone, 1876
Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie
Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
1860-1900 - 14 million immigrants
"new immigration"
"chain migration"
Impact of urban transportation
"Streetcar suburbs"
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
"Gibson girl"
Horatio Alger Novels