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There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold …

There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold …. THE GILDED AGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY. chapter 8 sections 1 & 2. When is the GILDED AGE ?. End of the Civil War until end of century 1865-1900 GILDED AGE 1900-1917 Progressive Era 1917-1918* WWI 1920s Roaring ’20s

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There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold …

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  1. There’s a lady who’s sure all that glitters is gold… THE GILDED AGE OF AMERICAN HISTORY chapter 8sections 1 & 2

  2. When is the GILDED AGE? • End of the Civil War until end of century • 1865-1900 GILDED AGE • 1900-1917 Progressive Era • 1917-1918* WWI • 1920s Roaring ’20s • 1930s Great Depression • 1941-1945* WWII • 1945-1989 Cold War

  3. What is the GILDED AGE? • Time of growth in America • 2nd Industrial Revolution • Cumulative wealth increases • Visible only on the surface • Beneath the surface • Unstable economic infrastructure • Immigration issues • Poverty & crime • Corruption

  4. GILDED Economics • Unhindered capitalism • Social Darwinism • Laissez-faire • Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations • Free marketplace • Government involvement • Subsidies for key industries • Corruption • Credit Mobilier scandal

  5. Credit Mobilier Scandal • Government loans given to Union Pacific for TCRR • Union Pac hires out Credit Mobilier company • CM overcharges Union Pac, then bribes key congressmen tokeep funds coming • Not investigateduntil 1872

  6. GILDED Politics • Spoils system • Rutherford B. Hayes bucks the trend • James A. Garfield gets shot • Pendleton Civil Service Act • Other reform • Railroad rebates • InterstateCommerceCommission

  7. Economic Depression, 1893 • Part of business cycle • Laissez-faire policies • Coxey’s Army

  8. IMMIGRANTS! chapter 8, section 2

  9. Where did America’s workers come from during this time of unusual industrial growth? • Former farmers moving to the cities to escape the poor working conditions in rural America, and… • IMMIGRANTS!

  10. PUSH Crop failures Land shortages Unemployment Rising taxes Political persecution Religious persecution 1890s pogroms against Russian Jews PULL Free land Homestead Act Personal freedoms Educational opps Not forced to serve long years in Army Participation in democratic gov’t Why did they come?

  11. Who was coming to America? • 1865-1890 • 10 million from central & NW Europe • 3 million from Germany • 3 million from British Isles • Looked white,mostly Protestant,blended well

  12. Who was coming to America? • 1890-1920 • 10 million from southern & eastern Europe • 4 million Italians • 3 million Jews (mostly Russia) • Greeks, Slavs, Armenians • Darker skin,different religions,did not blend in as well

  13. Their Journey • 1-3 weeks across Atlantic • Steerage • 70% came thru NYC • Physical exams upon entrance • Find families • Ghettos • Westward migration

  14. Non-Europeans • Chinese • Mid-1800s recruitmentto railroads • Separate communities • Lowered wages, conflict • Chinese Exclusion Act • 1882, 1892, 1902,permanent until 1943 • Japanese • Mexican

  15. Non-Europeans • Chinese • Japanese • Later than Chinese • 1894 treatygranting free entry • 200,000 by 1920 • Mexican

  16. Non-Europeans • Chinese • Japanese • Mexican • Early 20th century • New irrigation in SW,labor needed • 1910 Mexican Revolution • Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 • Did not apply to North Americans

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