1. Social Gospel, Angel & Ellis Island, Americanization or the Gilded Age
Tuesday, October 6, 2014
Take your seat
Quietly Review your vocabulary with your partner
Vocab Quiz in 3 minutes
Focus Ch. 3 Sec. 3-4
Possible IDs:
Social Gospel, Angel & Ellis Island, Americanization or the Gilded Age

2. Today’s Agenda Vocabulary Quiz Share Paragraphs from last night
FN: Political Corruption and the Gilded Age
Homework:
Read Ch. 4 Sec. 1
Answer Reading questions

3. Industrialization and Progressivism CSS 11.1, 11.2, 11.3. 11.5, 11.6
Unit 2—Chapters 3 – 4
Industrialization and Progressivism
CSS 11.1, 11.2, , 11.6

4. Political Corruption of the Gilded Age
EQ: What challenges arose for the nations political system during the gilded age?

5. Gilded Age
Gilded Age
Quote by Mark Twain: "The golden gleam of the gilded surface hides the cheapness of the metal underneath."
Gilded = covered with gold on outside, but not golden on the inside

6. Gilded Age Segregation
Reminder: African American’s are still suffering under Jim Crow Laws in the South
Plessy v. Ferguson

7. Gilded Age Politics – The Bosses
Political Machines
“Bosses” controlled elections exchanging votes for gov jobs & contracts
Elections fixed, the “right” people won
Workers were forced to vote by their bosses
Tammany Hall in NYC
Run by William “Boss” Tweed 1860s and 1870s
Tweed embezzled $100 million got himself elected to the NY leg.

9. Tuesday, October 7, 2014 Turn your homework into the basket
Take out your notebook
Begin Precious Time
Precious Time
Open to notes title “Workers Organize”
Add in Cornell questions
Highlight
Answer Eq

10. Today’s Agenda Precious Time
FN: Political Corruption and the Gilded Age
Homework:
Study Guide questions 14-18

11. Political Corruption - Grafting
When a political figure profits personally from the public budget
they sell property to the government or the government picks their company to build public buildings
Boss Tweed charged the city $13 million to build a $3 million courthouse

12. Gilded Age Corruption - Tweed Goes to Jail
Thomas Nast
Pictures of Tweed in Harper’s Weekly helped put him in jail
even illiterate people could get the gist of his cartoons
Nast created the symbol of the Republican party (the elephant)
he is the godfather of political cartoons today

13. Pendleton Act, 1883
“spoils system” - presidents gave jobs to people who helped them become president
This is the “Who you know” system of corruption
Lead to President Garfield murdered
he wouldn’t give Charles Guiteau a job b/c he didn’t know him
The Pendleton Act
New law - gov employees take civil service exam – merit based system
this made government workers accountable

14. Gold Standard Hard monetary policy
Farmers didn’t like it - kept prices low
Farmers wanted to mint silver coins
Make money cheaper and more available

15. Farmers and the Populist Movement
Farmer Alliance, 1870s
Farmers frustrated by falling crop prices, formed a group to work together
The Grange in the Midwest
The Farmers Alliance in the South and Plains
The group fell apart although over 700,000 farmers joined
The Farmers and the Railroads: The Grange Awakening the Sleepers Source/Date

16. Farmers and the Populist Movement
Populist Party, 1890s
Farmers tried again = People’s Party
Tried to unite W & S farmers with E factory workers into one party
They wanted cheaper money, railroad regulations, lower storage and shipping rates
Mary Elizabeth Lease, a leading Populist speaker, she said, "Wall Street owns the country. It is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street. The great common people of this country are slaves, and monopoly is the master. The West and South are bound and prostrate before the manufacturing East. Money rules..."

17. William Jennings Bryan
The Populist Platform
Populists saw need for change
Platform (message)
increase $ supply
graduated income tax
federal loan program
election of senators by popular vote
Secret ballot
eight hr. work day
William Jennings Bryan

18. Farmers and the Populist Movement
William Jennings Bryan, 1896
Populist candidate, popular after his “Cross of Gold” Speech
Blamed rich for keeping money too scarce
Lost the election but gov adopt many of his ideas eventually
Interstate Commerce Act

19. Audio of Cross of Gold speech

20. Electoral Map 1892

21. Electoral Map 1896

22. Preview of Progressives (don’t write)
City of Bell scandal