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1877 - Gilded Age

Ch. 23-25. 1877 - Gilded Age. The New South . Jim Crow Laws The Ku Klux Klan Civil Rights Act (1875) Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) “separate but equal” Lynchings Booker T. Washington W.E.B. DuBois NAACP (1909). The New South. Politics Democratic Party Party of racism

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1877 - Gilded Age

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  1. Ch. 23-25 1877 - Gilded Age

  2. The New South • Jim Crow Laws • The Ku Klux Klan • Civil Rights Act (1875) • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) • “separate but equal” • Lynchings • Booker T. Washington • W.E.B. DuBois • NAACP (1909)

  3. The New South • Politics • Democratic Party • Party of racism • “Redeemers/Bourbons” • Crop-lien System • Mill Towns

  4. Ulysses S. Grant • Election of 1868 & 1872 • Republicans & the “bloody shirt” • 15th Amendment (1870) • Political corruption • Boss Tweed (D) • political machine “boss” • Credit Mobilier Scandal • Economic Problems • Panic of 1873 = a 6 yr depression

  5. Compromise of 1877 • Election of 1876 • Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel J. Tilden • Disputed results • Compromise of 1877 • Redemption • Southern return to home rule

  6. Evolution of the corporation • Corporation • Investors & limited liability • Horizontal vs. Vertical integration • Andrew Carnegie • U.S. Steel Corporation • J.P. Morgan • John D. Rockefeller • Standard Oil Trust JD Rockefeller

  7. Ideas about Industrial Capitalism • Social Darwinism • Charles Darwin • Laws of evolution & natural selection • Adam Smith • Wealth of Nations • Gospel of Wealth & Andrew Carnegie • Critics of Social Darwinism • Edward Bellamy

  8. Workers and Unions • Who are the majority of workers? • Wages and working conditions • Unions formed • Knights of Labor (1869) • American Federation of Labor (1881) • Industrial Workers of the World (1905)

  9. Reactions to Unions • RR Strike of 1877 • Haymarket Square Riot (1886) • Homestead Strike (1892) • Pullman Strike (1894)

  10. Immigration • New vs. Old immigrants • Reactions to immigration • Boss Tweed • Jane Addams • xenophobia Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island - 1900 Ellis Island

  11. The Gilded Age • Politics • Populism

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