Chapter 23 Assignment:
Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age (1869-1896)
Big Picture Questions:
1) What were the political characteristics of the Gilded Age?
a. Examine the corruption of the Grant administration.
b. Examine the increased political partisanship of the period and the poor political leadership that existed.
c. Examine how the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 led to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction
in the South.
2) Describe the economic crises from the 1870s to the 1890s, and explain the growing conflicts between “hard money” and
“soft money” advocates.
3) How did the end of Reconstruction lead to the loss of black rights and the imposition of the Jim Crow system of
segregation in the South?
Identifications:
Tweed Ring—Boss Tweed
Thomas Nast
Credit Mobilier Scandal
Tammany Hall
Jim Crow Laws
Homestead Strike
Chinese Exclusion Act (1879 & 1882)
Whiskey Ring
Compromise of 1877
Pendleton Act of 1883
People’s Party (Populists)
Gold Standard
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Chapter 24 Assignment:
Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Big Picture Questions:
1) How and why did transportation development spark economic growth during the period from 1860 to 1900 in the United
States?
2) Analyze the economic consequences of the Civil War with respect to the following: labor, industrialization,
transportation.
Identifications:
Stock watering
Interstate Commerce Act—ICC (1887)
Bessemer Process
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Wabash case
“horizontal” vs “vertical” integration
Gospel of Wealth
Social Darwinism
Chapter 25 Assignment:
America Moves to the City (1865-1900)
Big Picture Questions:
1) Identify and analyze the factors that changed the American city in the second half of the nineteenth century.
2) Describe the social changes that occurred in American society at this time. In particular, address the following:
a. The efforts of social reformers to improve society and alleviate the conditions created by industrialization and
urbanization.
b. Assess how women’s activities in the intellectual, social, economic, and political spheres challenged traditional
attitudes about women’s place in society.
c. Analyze the changes in American religious life in the late nineteenth century, including the reaction to Charles
Darwin’s evolutionary theories.
3) Immigrants often saw America as a land of opportunity. What was the reality of the opportunity for most immigrants
during the last two decades of the nineteenth century? Address your answer to each of the following groups: German,
Irish, Chinese, Southern & Eastern Europeans.
4) Following Reconstruction, many southern leaders promoted the idea of the “New South.” To what extent was this “New
South” a reality by the time of the First World War? In your answer, be sure to address the following: economic
development, politics, race relations.
Identifications:
Dumbbell tenement
National Prohibition Party
Jane Addams—Hull House
“Comstock Law”
Christian Scientists—Mary Baker Eddy
On the Origin of Species—Charles Darwin
Booker T. Washington—Tuskegee Institute
George Washington Carver
Morill Act of 1862
Social Gospel
Nativism
NAWSA—Stanton and Anthony
Sensationalism – yellow journalism
Hatch Act of 1867
W.E.B. DuBois – NAACP & talented tenth
Chapter 26 Assignment:
The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution (1865-1896)
Big Picture Questions:
1) Evaluate the role that TWO of the following played in the settlement of the West from 1865 to 1890: transcontinental
railroad, United States Indian policy, agricultural technology.
2) Analyze the ways in which farmers and industrial workers responded to industrialization in the Gilded Age (1865-1900).
3) The rise of third parties throughout the Gilded Age was evidence that the two major parties failed to address the critical
problems of the day. Assess the validity of this statement for the period 1875-1900.
Identifications:
“Fifty-Niners” & Comstock Lode
Homestead Act of 1862
Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse
Apache—Geronimo
A Century of Dishonor—Helen Hunt Jackso
Battle of Wounded Knee
William Jennings Bryan—“Cross of Gold” speech
Gold Standard Act
“Long Drive”
Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand)
Nez Perce Indians—Chief Joseph
Frederick Jackson Turner—“The Significance of the Frontier”
The Grange movement & Farmers’ Alliance
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Pullman Strike
Pension Act of 1890