Period 6:The Gilded Age

Evolutions in Tech/Liberal Arts Light Bulb Assembly Line Transportation Literature(Mark Twain) Steel(Skyscrapers) Railroads

Important People Presidents: –Ulysses S. Grant: –Rutherford B. Hayes: –James A. Garfield: (assassinated in 1881) –Chest A. Arthur: –Grover Cleveland: ; –Benjamin Harrison: Forgotten Presidents Boss Tweed Robber Barons-Carnegie, Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan American Federation of Labor(AFL)-Samuel Gompers Knights of Labor Eugene V. Debs and Socialism

Major Acts/Laws Homestead Act-1862 Morrill Land Grant Act-1862 Dawes Severalty Act-1887(Indian Reservation) McKinley Tariff-1894

Important Places Tammany Hall in New York Tentant Houses Settlement Houses Congress Chicago D.C.

Important Events Haymarket Square Riot-1886(Chicago,Il) Plessy V. Ferguson Case-Segeration Allowed in Public Places(Seperate But Equal)

Terms to Know Horizontal and Vertical Integration Monopolies Corporate Consolidation Holding Company Sherman Antitrust Act of 1890 Trade Unions Settlement Houses "Yellow Journalism"(Jacob R.)

Summary of Events The Gilded Age was an Era in American history that took place between The name of this age came from famous author, Mark Twain. Something that is Gilded, from the outside, it seems to be very rich, prosperous, and important. However, this gilded society, when you scrape of the gold, witnesses the true corruption of society. From Poltical Corruption, to economic faliures, to social inequality among class level, income, race, and origin.

Summary of Events-Cont. MAJOR PROBLEMS –Political Machines(Tammany Hall) –Division of Wealth on Social Classes –Bribes and Threats –Monopolies and Vertical Integration –Economic Panics(Panic of 1893) –Overproduction and Inflation –Rural vs. Urban –Agricultural vs Industrialization –Standards of Money(Gold V. Silver) –Role of Government in the means of production

Summary of Events-Cont. Gilded Age- Political Stalwart and Half-Breed-Political Division in the party Laissez Faire Capitalism Gospal of Wealth Social Darwinism

Social Changes Advertising Department stores

Economic Changes Monopolies Veritcal integration Railroad intervention Trust Busting Capatilism Gowth

Questions to think about What changed about govermental policy from Reconstruction Era to Gilded Age Era What was the importance of immigration at this time and age? Name two examples of poltical, social, and economic problems that relates to the ideology that would follow The Gospel of Wealth and Social Darwinism