“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes: “Social Darwinism”

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends - Sen. A. J. Beveridge, January 9, 1900

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes Cartoon: “The White (?) Man’s Burden”, 1898

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends 2. Into the Pacific Notes: Hawaii, annexed 1898

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends 4. “Splendid Little War” Notes: Spanish-American War, 1898

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes Discuss and record as a small group: What type of events, developments, individuals, groups and ideas make up the concept of “international trends”? Write a working definition.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes Please copy: “International trends” show the relationships between the United States and other nations. These include: trade political agreements war immigration others

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: Social Trends What scenes are shown on this poster? What is the message of the poster? Summary Question: What kind of nation was the United States by 1900? Give international , social, technological, economic and political examples as support.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Booker T. Washington and WEB Dubois: African-American leaders with disparate views

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

The thronging Goth and Vandal trampled Rome . . . - Thomas Bailey Aldrich, 1895

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends 8 Questions What this man is standing on explains one reason why American settlers eventually populated the West successfully.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends “Indian Women Moving” by Charles Russell

Custer’s Last Stand by an artist who wasn’t there . . . and one who was.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Assimilation

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends Discuss and record as a small group: What type of events, developments, individuals or groups and ideas make up the concept of “social trends”? Write a working definition.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends Please copy: “Social trends” show how groups of Americans affected and were affected by living in the United States. These groups can be based on: gender * class ethnicity * ideology / religion race * other

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends Discuss and record as a small group: What type of events, developments, individuals, groups and ideas make up the concept of “technological trends”? Write a working definition.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends America, 1865 – 1900: Social Trends Please copy: “Technological trends” show how various devices, processes, and innovations impacted the United States economically, socially, politically and internationally.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends “The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP “Shall [big business] govern the country or shall the people govern [big business]. . . ? This is a government of the people, by the people, for the people no longer. It’s a government of corporations, by corporations and for corporations.”

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends “The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP “Shall [big business] govern the country or shall the people govern [big business]. . . ? This is a government of the people, by the people, for the people no longer. It’s a government of corporations, by corporations and for corporations.” Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877 - 1881

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Standard Oil Corporation refined 90%+ of America’s oil in the 1880’s.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary To counter the difficult conditions of workers, unions like the Knights of Labor formed.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends S Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Two significant labor disturbances, the Haymarket Riot and the Pullman Strike, broke the effort to unionize.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends America, 1865 – 1900: Social Trends Discuss and record as a small group: What type of events, developments, individuals or groups and ideas make up the concept of “economic trends”? Write a working definition.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: International trends Notes Please copy: “Economic trends” show how individuals and corporations (micro- ) and society as a whole (macro- ) choose to use their natural and human resources. This includes: business owners * labor force government spending / tax policy / regulation * foreign trade * flow of the economy * other

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?

. . . be entitled to enter one quarter section or a less quantity of unappropriated public lands, upon which said person may have filed a claim, or which may, at the time the application is made, be subject to preemption at one dollar and twenty-five cents, or less, per acre; . . . shall prove by two credible witnesses that he, she, or they have resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years . . . shall be entitled to a patent, as in other cases provided for by law - Homestead Act, 1862

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Chinese Exclusion Act, 1883 Dawes Act, 1886

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends “The Bosses of the Senate”, 1890

of sugar production NOT a monopoly “The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends EC Knight decision, 1895 – 98% control of sugar production NOT a monopoly Plessy v Ferguson, 1896 – “separate but equal” is lawful

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends P

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Discuss and record as a small group: What type of events, developments, individuals, groups and ideas make up the concept of “political trends”? Write a working definition.

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: Technological Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Notes Please copy: “Political trends” show the interactions between American government at all levels (city, state, federal) and its citizens. This includes: political parties * policy making notable office holders * civil rights interpretation of the Constitution domestic effects of international events * others

“The Gilded Age”, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP America, 1865 – 1900: ISTEP Trends Outline International Developments Social Developments Technological Developments Economic Trends Political Trends Summary Critical Question #1: To what extent did the benefits of laissez faire capitalism outweigh the need for Progressive reforms and government regulation from the 1870s (Gilded Age) to the early 1900s (Wilson Administration)?