Chapter 7 Notes - Twinsburg Schools
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Chapter 7
Issues of the Gilded Age
7.1 Segregation and Social
Trends
Objectives:
Assess how whites created a segregated
society in the South and how African
Americans responded
Analyze efforts to limit immigration and the
effects
Compare the situations of Mexican
Americans and of women to those of other
groups
African Americans Lose
Freedoms
Southern
states got around the 15th
amendment by enacting a poll tax
Literacy tests
Grandfather clauses
Jim
Crow laws in South
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 “separate but
equal”
African Americans Oppose
Injustices
Booker
Should focus energy building up economic
resources and establishing reputations
Vocational education
W.E.B.
Du Bois
Demand full and immediate equality
Ida
T. Washington
B. Wells
Newspaper “Free Speech”
Chinese Immigrants Face
Discrimination
1879-CA
barred cities from employing
people of Chinese ancestry
“Oriental” School
Chinese Exclusion Act-banned Chinese
laborers from entering the country
Federal courts
Yick Wo v. Hopkins –people of Chinese
descent born in U.S. could not be stripped
of citizenship
Mexican Americans Struggle in
the West
Mexican-American
War-after, Mexicans
were guaranteed property rights
Burden of proof-lost land to Americans
Las
Gorras Blancas
Group formed to get land back
Backed by the Knights of Labor
Women Make Gains and
Suffer Setbacks
Susan
B. Anthony
Wanted women included in 14th and 15th
amendments
Formed the National Woman Suffrage
Association
Fought for the right to vote
Number
of women attending college
increased
7.2 Political and Economic
Challenges
Objectives
Analyze the issue of corruption in national
politics in the 1870s and 1880s
Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s
and 1880s
Assess the importance of economic issues in
the politics of the Gilded Age
Balance of Power Creates
Stalemate
Party
loyalties were extremely even
Made it hard to pass laws
Weak
Presidents
Hayes, Harrison, Garfield, Arthur
Pres. Cleveland was known for integrity
Corruption in Politics
Many
gov. officials accepted bribes
Political cartoons expressed concerns
about the damaging effects of corruption
and big money
Spoils System-gov. jobs to loyal party
workers
Promoted civil service reform
Pendleton Civil Service Act: exam to get
gov. job
Economic Issues
Gold
standard-gov. used gold as the basis
of the nation’s currency
Debates on tariffs
Republicans-favored high tariffs=promote
jobs
Democrats-said high tariffs increased costs
and made it difficult to sell abroad
Create your own!
Create
a political cartoon for the Gilded
age.
Any topic from Ch. 6 or 7
Make sure you include
Caption
description of the drawing
Be
creative!
7.3 Farmers and Populism
Objectives
Analyze the problems farmers faced and
the groups they formed to address them
Assess the goals of the Populists, and
explain why they Populist Party did not last
Farmers Face Many Problems
1870-1895
Cost more to produce than they could get
selling it
Tenement farmers
Blamed
farm prices fell dramatically
big business
Railroads and banks
Felt
that gov. turned their back on them
Organize and Seek Change
Oliver
H. Kelley-
The Grange: org. to promote education on
new techniques and called for the
regulation of railroads
Farmers’
Alliance
Collectively sold crops and wanted
government to establish “sub-treasuries”
Populist Party
The
People’s Party 1882
“grass roots” and spread rapidly
Goals:
fight corruption
Increase monetary supply
gov. ownership of railroads
Economic Crisis and
Populism’s Decline
Election
of 1896-Bryan (D) v. McKinley (R)
Bryan “Cross
of Gold Speech”
Indorsed by Populists
McKinley
Much
more $ than Bryan
Won election
Party
fell apart after election
Some reforms did become a reality