Unit 8 Organizer
Gilded Age/Industrial Revolution

Chapters 24,25,26,27,28

Unit Objectives:

·  Explain why the level of politics in the Gilded Age was generally low

·  Describe how the economy came to be dominated by giant “trusts” such as those headed by “Robber barons” in industry

·  Analyze the social changes bright by industrialization, particularly the altered position of working men and women.

·  Identify the new social problems created by urbanization of America and how American responded

·  Discuss the causes and results of the warfare between whites and Native Americans in the Great West

·  Identify the effects of the frontier on American society at different stages of its development

Chapter 24: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896

Key Concepts:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
1.  Election of 1868
2.  Grant as President
3.  Tweed Ring
4.  Other Grant-era scandals
5.  Election of 1872
6.  Panic of 1873
7.  Specie Resumption Act of 1875
8.  Gilded Age
9.  The Election of 1876
10.  The Electoral Count Act
11.  End of Reconstruction
12.  Civil Rights Act of 1875
13.  Post-Reconstruction South
14.  Jim Crow laws
15.  Plessy vs. Ferguson (1896)
16.  Perceived Problems with Immigration (again)
17.  Election of 1880
18.  Reforming the spoils system
19.  Election of 1884
20.  Cleveland’s Presidency
21.  Election of 1888
22.  McKinley Tariff Act of 1890.
23.  Populist Party
24.  Election of 1892
25.  Panic of 1893
26.  J.P. Morgan
27.  Income tax under Cleveland


Chapter 25: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900

Expansion of the Railroads:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
28.  Land disputes
29.  Transcontinental railroad(s)
30.  Railroad Consolidation and Updates
31.  Corruption with the railroads
32.  Railroad laws and court cases of the 1870’s and 1880’s

Time of Invention:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
33.  A. Bell
34.  T. Edison
35.  Major Inventions

Industry – A Blessing and a Curse:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
36. Andrew Carnegie
37. John Rockefeller
38. J. Pierpont Morgan
39. Vertical integration
40. Horizontal integration
41. Plutocracy
42. Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
43. American Tobacco Company
44. "Pittsburgh plus" pricing system
45. Cotton textiles

Women:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
46. The Impact of the Ind. Revolution on Women

Labor Unions:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
47. Overview

Chapter 26, 27, 28: Urbanization, the Wild West & Class Conflict

Key Concepts:

CONCEPT /
DESCRIPTION AND IMPORTANCE
48.  Immigration: when, where, why
49.  Immigration: Reaction to…
50.  Social Change: religion, education, the family and minorities
51.  Social Change: the arts
52.  Dealings with Native Americans in the West after the Civil War
53.  Cause of the increase demand of the western lands
54.  Populism: what, why, when and where
55.  The Gold Issue: main points
56.  The Pullman strike of 1894
57.  Election of 1896
58.  Gold Standard Act of 1900