THE GILDED AGE

a. The Bessemer Process

b. Andrew Carnegie

c. "Wealth"

1. The rich

-Vanderbilt

-Stuyvesant Fish

-"Diamond" Brady

2. The poor

-tenement houses

-Dawes General Allotment Act (1887)

-racism

-Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

-banned immigration of Chinese laborers for 10 years

-prohibited citizenship for Chinese immigrants already in the United States

THE GILDED AGE

REGIONAL INDUSTRIALIZATION

INDUSTRIALIZATION

1. National Labor Union

A. The North

2. Order of the Knights of St. Crispin

A. Reforming the Cities

1. Industrialization

C.What are unions?

B. The "New South"

3. Knights of Labor

-The Haymarket Riot (1886)

PROGRESSIVE ERA

A. The Basics of the Industrial Revolution

1. By 1900, 30% of the population lived in cities

a. Crude Oil

b. John D. Rockefeller

-horizontal integration

D. Politics and Culture of the Progressive Era

1. Railroads

a. TRUST BUSTER!

- Sherman Anti-Trust Law (1890)

-Teddy Roosevelt and JP Morgan

http://www.history.com/videos/theodore-roosevelt-vs-corporate-america

3. Petroleum

1. Teddy Roosevelt

a. benefits of travel by rail...reliable means of moving goods and products

2. Immigrants and the poor moved to cities

4. AFL

5. American Socialist Party

-T.R.'s handpicked successor...

c. Go America!

-over a two year period, 16 battleships made an appearance on 6 continents

-busted more trusts than Roosevelt, including U.S. Steel

-struggled with Roosevelt in election of 1912 to win the Republican nomination

- The National Forest Service

2. William Howard Taft

*Teddy Roosevelt created nature preservation systems...and he was a hunter

b. A Man of Contradictions

-The "Bully Pulpit"

*though he was from a wealthy family, he denounced wealthy big businesses

-A more "manly" America

FUN FACTS

Teddy Roosevelt wrote OVER THREE DOZEN BOOKS

*boxed in the White House, led the Rough Riders, and won the Nobel Peace Prize

T.R. suffered from asthma, severe stomach pains, and was a very sickly child

T.R. spoke for over an hour with a bullet in his chest

3. Settlement Houses

4. Attempts at reform

-Niagra Movement

-Juneteenth

-Tuskegee Institute

2. Race Relations

-"Second Mississippi Plan"

-Jim Crow Laws

2. The use of STEEL

6. CONFLICT!

-business owners HATED unions

-used BLACKLISTS and YELLOW DOG CONTRACTS to break union power

4. Muckrakers

-Wilson's Progressive Reforms

-signed the Federal Reserve Act of 1913, creating regional banking system under the control of the federal government

-pushed for reduction of tariffs

On a side note...

Wilson never supported the social reforms proposed by the "Progressives"

4. Reform

3. Woodrow Wilson

-established the Federal Trade Commission to prevent abusive business practices

EDMODO POST:

After reading "Wealth" by Andrew Carnegie, answer the following question on edmodo:

How does Carnegie believe that a person's wealth should be used? Do you agree or disagree with Carnegie? Explain your position

Also, respond to at least one other students' post.

Actively read this primary source. What was the goal of the Niagara Movement?

-Education Reform

-John Dewey

-allow children to be educated in what they WANT to learn

-make good moral choices!

3. Plessy v Ferguson

3. Immigration

CONSTRUCTED RESPONSE!!

-legislation

-Pure Food and Drug Act

-eugenics

http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/eugenics/3-buckvbell/

B. Democratization

1. 17th Amendment

2. Referendum

B. Culture of the Industrial Revolution

3. Primary

1. Big Business

a. monopolies

C. Women's Progressivism

b. working conditions

c. Social Darwinism

1. National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)

-new technologies from the industrial revolution allowed farmers to yield more crops

C. The West

2. Indian Relations

-Indian Wars

-Sand Creek Massacre (1864)

-purchasing machinery costs money

2. Politics

a. Political Favors

1. Tammany Hall

-Boss Tweed

-social help for votes

-farmers went DEEPLY in debt

D. Populism

1. Industrializing the West

-cattle

-meatpacking plants

1. The Populist Party

3. Chinese-American Relations

2. National Women's Party (NWP)

-President Grant's "Peace Plan"

-Americanize the Indians

-deflation

-paper money and silver were taken out of circulation

-the nation used the gold standard

-gold became scarce...prices of goods fell...smaller profit...less money to repay debt

a move to remonetize silver

3. Alice Paul

-Little Bighorn

-General Custer "gold among the roots of the grass"

-encouraged Americans to invade

-farmers unite and create alliances, which fail

-Dr. Charles Macune's Subtreasury Plan

this would allow the government to store crops and offer farmers low cost loans

it failed

2. Populism in Politics

ACTIVITY!!!

1. List at least two ideas that came from the Populist Movement

2. In a group (created by Mrs. Petty) discuss the ideas you listed.

AS A GROUP, determine the most important contribution of the Populist Party

3. Be ready to discuss and defend your ideas in class

Battle of Wounded Knee (1890)