Emergence of a Modern Nation

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Emergence of a Modern Nation

Concepts Gilded Age Cities as Central Location for Employment Movement from Farm to City Immigrant Labor Gilded Age Business Practices American movement to urban living Growing Working and Middle Classes

Gilded Age Economic Change, Consumption and Development Opulent and Shiny on outside Cheap Within Focus moved from Politics to Economic Success Lavish lifestyles Conspicuous Consumption Symbols of Success Growth in Industry, Immigration and Urbanization Ignored issues and problems from this growth Limited Government, Laissez-Faire Economics and Party Patronage Gilded Age Overview

Industry and Big Business Gilded Age Philosophies Social Darwinism Captains of Industry or Robber Barrons Developers of modern American economy Underhanded and illegal business men Consolidation and Trust Busting Sherman Antitrust Act 1890 Trust Busting

Industry and Labor Railroad Strike 1877 Haymarket Riot 1886 Homestead Strike 1892 Pullman Strike 1894

Closing the Frontier Homestead Act Railroads Native Americans Good and Bad of this Act Railroads Native Americans Battle of Little Bighorn Nez Perce War Wounded Knee Indian Appropriation Act Dawes Act Indian Reservation Act

Agrarian Reform Agricultural Revolution Self-sufficiency to Cash Crops Hardships Experienced by Farmers Falling Prices High Interest Rates Rising Costs Taxation Burders

Agrarian Reform Farmers Collective Actions and Organizations Granger Movement Interstate Commerce Act Greenback and Free Silver Movement Bland Allison Act

Populism Various Farmers Alliances Joining to form Populist Party Populist Party Platform Direct election of Senators Single term for President Free and unlimited coinage of silver Graduated income tax Public Ownership of Railroad, telegraph and telephone Immigration restrictions Tariff reduction Election of 1892 Democratic Party adopted Populist proposals Republican McKinley won, support gold against silver Populist Party

Immigration 1890 Immigrants 14% of population New immigration from east and south Europe Native-born Americans viewed new immigrants with distrust Chinese Exclusion Act Gentlemen's Agreement Immigrants Impoverished Unskilled Illiterate

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