The Gilded Age

HIST-155; Ch 16

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1. The  United  States:  1870-­‐1890  
2. —  A  federal  system   —  National   government  /  State   governments   —  Economics   —  North-­‐  Industry,   agriculture   —  South-­‐  Agriculture,   limited  industry   —  West-­‐  Mining,   ranchine  
4. —  Cultural   —  Environmental    
6. —  Dawes  Severalty  Act   (1887)   —  End  of  tribal  life   —  Indian  Schools   —  “Kill  the  Indian,  save  the  man”  
8. —  Wovoka  (1889)   —  A  threat?   —  Wounded  Knee   Massacre  (1890)   —  Signals  end  of  the   Indian  Wars  
9. —  Mining   —  Cattle   —  Farming   —  Connection  to  the   New  Industrial   Economy  
11. —  What  made  it   possible?   —  What  did  it   look  like?   —  Railroads   —  Factories   —  Mining  
13. —  Centered  on  northern   cities   —  Pittsburgh:  steel  and  iron   —  Chicago:  steel,   machinery,  stockyards   —  Grand  Rapids:  furniture   —  Flint:  Carriages   —  Invention   —  Thomas  Edison,  Nikola   Tesla,  and  Electricity  
14. —  Economic  chaos   —  Pools  &  Trusts   —  Integration   —  Vertical   —  Horizontal   —  Andrew  Carnegie   —  Steel  Industry   —  Rags  to  Riches  myth   —  John  D.  Rockefeller   —  Standard  Oil  
16. —  Skilled  vs.  Unskilled   —  Working  conditions   —  Instability   —  Organization   —  Knights  of  Labor   —  Unrest   —  Haymarket  Square  
17. —  Division  of  wealth  not   equal   —  Conspicuous   consumption  
19. —  Definitions  of  Freedom  and  Liberty   —  Focused  almost  exclusively  on  property  rights   —  Does  freedom  =  equality?   —  Social  Darwinism   —  Liberty  of  Contract   —  Supreme  Court  decisions   —  Lochner  vs.New  York  
20. —  Benefits  of  rapid  industrialization   —  Rise  in  national  power  and  wealth     —  Improving  standard  of  living   —  Human  cost  of  industrialization   —  Exploitation   —  Social  unrest   —  Growing  disparity  between  rich  and  poor   —  Increasing  power  of  giant  corporations  
21. —  Utopian  and  cataclysmic   Writers   —  Donnelly-­‐  Caesar’s   Column   —  Bellamy-­‐  Looking   Backward    
22. —  Sherman  Anti-­‐Trust  Act   —  Wovoka   —  Lochner  vs.New  York   —  Dawes  Severalty  Act   —  Haymarket  Square