The Gilded Age (1870-1900)
Part 1 on study guide - AP U.S. History
Main ideas / changes over time:
The New South economy
Between 1877 and 1900, though the Southern economy increased in industrialization it was still dominated by
struggling cotton agriculture, leading to farmer alliances.
The New South and African-Americans
Between 1877 and 1900, race relations deteriorated in the New South and African-Americans had little support
outside of their own communities.
The rise of industry
Between 1870 and 1910, the rise of industry in the United States included improved technology, increased power
to large corporations, difficult working conditions, and attempts to improve the lives of workers through settlement houses
and union organizing.
Immigrants and cities
During the Gilded Age, the rise of industry led to a surge of new immigration, the growth of cities, and the
creation of a larger, consumerist middle class.
SFI names and terms – remember to make connections, understand significance, recognize cause and effect, and group
with patterns and categories
1.
The New South
19. Atlanta Compromise
36. Settlement houses
2.
The Solid South
20. W.E.B. Du Bois
37. Hull House
3.
Birmingham, AL
21. NAACP
38. Gospel of Wealth
4.
James B. Duke
22. “Gilded Age”
39. Social Darwinism
5.
Coca-Cola
23. Thomas Edison
40. Labor union
6.
Capital
24. Corporation
41. Great Railroad Strike of 1877
7.
“Pittsburgh Plus” pricing
25. Stock
8.
The Grange
26. Vertical integration
42. Knights of Labor
9.
Farmers’ Alliance
27. Horizontal integration
43. Haymarket Riot
10. Populist Party
28. John D. Rockefeller
44. New immigration
11. Lynching
29. Andrew Carnegie
45. Nativism
12. Ida B. Wells
30. “Robber barons” v.
46. Naturalization Act of 1870
13. Segregation
(Great Uprising)
“Captains of industry”
47. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
14. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
31. Industrial working conditions
48. Urbanization
15. Jim Crow laws
32. Child labor
49. Suburb
16. Disfranchisement
33. Sweatshop
50. New middle class
17. Birth of a Nation
34. Tenement
51. Consumerism
18. Booker T. Washington
35. Jacob Riis
52. “National pastime”
Dates:
1877 – Compromise of 1877 (end of Reconstruction)
1896 – Plessy v. Ferguson
Know your presidential terms, 1876-1900!