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Gilded Age AmericaGilded Age America
America’s Growing PainsAmerica’s Growing Pains
Westward ExpansionWestward Expansion Frontier definition: Frontier definition:
less than 2 people per less than 2 people per square mile west of square mile west of line drawn from line drawn from northern to southern northern to southern boundary.boundary.
Mining FrontierMining Frontier Cattle FrontierCattle Frontier Farming FrontierFarming Frontier End of the FrontierEnd of the Frontier http://www.clt.astate.ehttp://www.clt.astate.e
du/lsaunders/2773Tradu/lsaunders/2773TransMississippi%20WestnsMississippi%20West_files/frame.htm_files/frame.htm
Native American PolicyNative American Policy
Sand Creek Sand Creek Massacre Massacre (extermination) (extermination) November 28, 1864November 28, 1864
Reservations Reservations (removal)(removal)
Dawes Severalty Act Dawes Severalty Act (assimilation) 1887(assimilation) 1887
http://www.csulb.edhttp://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/u/projects/ais/
Modern FarmingModern Farming MechanizationMechanization Decline of the Family FarmDecline of the Family Farm Rise of Farm RevoltsRise of Farm Revolts
The GrangeThe Grange The PopulistsThe Populists
SuccessesSuccesses Paper currencyPaper currency Antitrust and Big Business Antitrust and Big Business
Legislation Legislation Direct election of SenatorsDirect election of Senators Graduated Income TaxGraduated Income Tax Farm SubsidiesFarm Subsidies
http://projects.vassar.edu/http://projects.vassar.edu/1896/populists.html1896/populists.html
Industrialization and Industrialization and UrbanizationUrbanization
Social DarwinismSocial Darwinism ““Laissez-Faire”Laissez-Faire” Labor, Mechanization, Labor, Mechanization,
and Transportationand Transportation Rise of Large CitiesRise of Large Cities http://library.thinkqueshttp://library.thinkques
t.org/C004367/eh4.shtt.org/C004367/eh4.shtmlml
http://oswego.org/staffhttp://oswego.org/staff/tcaswell/wq/gildedage/tcaswell/wq/gildedage/student.htm/student.htm
Railroads And National Railroads And National MarketsMarkets
Travel Before Travel Before RailroadsRailroads
Construction IssuesConstruction Issues Backward LinkagesBackward Linkages Forward LinkagesForward Linkages Other Benefits?Other Benefits? http://memory.loc.http://memory.loc.
gov/ammem/gmdhgov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrintro.html/rrhtml/rrintro.htmltml
Rise of Big BusinessRise of Big Business
Development of TrustsDevelopment of Trusts MonopoliesMonopolies OligopoliesOligopolies
IntegrationIntegration MechanizationMechanization http://http://
cse.stanford.edu/cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-class/cs201/projects-95-96/corporate-95-96/corporate-monopolies/monopolies/government_history.htgovernment_history.html ml
Famous BusinessmenFamous Businessmen
Andrew CarnegieAndrew Carnegie John RockefellerJohn Rockefeller Cornelius VanderbiltCornelius Vanderbilt Jay GouldJay Gould Robber BaronsRobber Barons Social GospelSocial Gospel http://oswego.org/http://oswego.org/
staff/tcaswell/wq/staff/tcaswell/wq/gildedage/gildedage/resources.htm resources.htm
Labor IssuesLabor Issues
SafetySafety PaternalismPaternalism WagesWages Child and Female LaborChild and Female Labor KoL-Terrence PowderlyKoL-Terrence Powderly AF of L-Samuel GompersAF of L-Samuel Gompers IWW-Bill HaywoodIWW-Bill Haywood http://http://
www.geocities.com/www.geocities.com/CollegePark/Quad/CollegePark/Quad/6460/AmLabHist/ 6460/AmLabHist/
ImmigrationImmigration
““New” ImmigrantsNew” Immigrants Foreign born population Foreign born population
jumped from 4 million in jumped from 4 million in 1860 to over 10 million 1860 to over 10 million by 1890.by 1890.
Southern and eastern Southern and eastern Europe, AsiaEurope, Asia
Language barriers Language barriers greatergreater
Larger cultural Larger cultural differencesdifferences
Often came from rural Often came from rural areasareas
http://www.cis.org/http://www.cis.org/topics/history.html topics/history.html
Other Domestic Political Other Domestic Political IssuesIssues
Political MachinesPolitical Machines Civil Service ReformsCivil Service Reforms TariffTariff Civil War Related Civil War Related
issuesissues Battle FlagsBattle Flags PensionsPensions
http://http://www.digitalhistory.uwww.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/h.edu/historyonline/us28.cfm us28.cfm
ImperialismImperialism
Spanish-American War Spanish-American War (1898-1899)(1898-1899)
Hawaii (1899)Hawaii (1899) Samoa (1899)Samoa (1899) Boxer Rebellion (1900)Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Open Door PolicyOpen Door Policy Panama (1905)Panama (1905) http://http://
www.smplanet.com/www.smplanet.com/imperialism/toc.html imperialism/toc.html
Leaders in ImperialismLeaders in Imperialism
Henry Cabot LodgeHenry Cabot Lodge Alfred Thayer Alfred Thayer
MahanMahan Theodore Theodore
RooseveltRoosevelt