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Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Populism

Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Populism. Test Review 37 multiple choice questions (33) One open ended essay (chart) Two document based essays Two test grades—objective and essays. Immigration.

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Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Populism

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  1. Gilded Age, Progressive Era, Populism Test Review 37 multiple choice questions (33) One open ended essay (chart) Two document based essays Two test grades—objective and essays

  2. Immigration 1890-1914—Southern and Eastern Europeans—Russians, Slavs, Greeks, Poles, Italians, Czechs, Slovenians, Hungarians, Jews, Catholics, … Immigrants lived in crowded NE cities in ghettos and tenements Irish got caught up in party politics of The Tammany Hall political machine led by Boss Tweed

  3. And more immigration Settlement houses helped immigrants to assimilate The growth of the underclass (poverty) Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Lazarus poem Xenophobia, nativism, and melting pot

  4. Millionaires Social Darwinism and Gospel of Wealth (philanthropy) Inventors—Bell, Edison (most prominent) Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons Monopolies (against Sherman Anti-trust Act)

  5. Business Monopolies—threatened by “trustbusters” and Sherman Anti-trust Act Mail order (Sears, etc.) Bessemer Process led to Age of Steel Factories, smokestacks, unions, urbanization, exploitation of labor

  6. Race Plessy case— “separate but equal” NAACP—Du Bois (“total equality”) Washington—less progressive—believed in slow achievement and segregation and education

  7. Labor Unions--Knights of labor, Am. Federation of Labor, United Mine Workers, Ladies Garment Workers, etc. Coal Strike—arbitration by TR Eugene Debs—socialist, leader of American Railway Union—known for strike

  8. Populists For a silver or mixed metal standard (against gold standard) Represents South and Midwest and Farmers William Jennings Bryan—Cross of Gold speech

  9. Reform Yellow journalism—muckrakers Lynching exposed The Jungle and Meat Inspection Act(TR) Conservation (TR) Trustbusting(TR)

  10. And more reform Women’s suffrage—Susan B. Anthony and friends Temperance Movement City commissions and referendums Social Work—Jane Addams Architecture—Wright and Sullivan

  11. Suffrage—the right to vote

  12. Politicians “That’s bully!” Republicans—McKinley, Taft, TR Democrats—Cleveland, Wilson Assassinated—Garfield, McKinley Progressives—TR, Taft, Wilson, William Jennings Bryan

  13. Populism—a Progressive Idea The party and philosophy W. J. Bryan Wizard of Oz as allegory Successes and failures

  14. Essay Number 1 Draw a chart comparing the Gilded Age and Progressive Era regarding: Time period Definition of period Three major events Three major names General impression on its effect on history

  15. Example of Chart Gilded Age Prog. Era Time Definition Three details Three names General impression or effect

  16. Essay Number 2 You will read a short document and answer a question using the document as support for your thesis You should use appropriate terms from the unit of study You should quote the document once One paragraph only

  17. Essay Number 3 You will view a cartoon and answer a question using the document to support your thesis. You will have to interpret the graphic and name a person, company, and situation from the period. Use appropriate terms from our study (Hint: refer to the multiple choice questions for ideas of terms)

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