Mugwumps!

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Key Terms:

Dime Novels, Robber Barons (know who they are), Trust, Sherman Anti-Trust, Do Nothing Presidents, Thomas Nast, Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed, Greenback Party, Pendleton Act vs. Spoils System,  Haymarket Affair, Molly Maguires, AFL, Wobblies, Knights of Labor, Gompers, Powderly, Debs, ICC, Sherman Silver Act, Homestead Act,  Turner Thesis, Dawes Severalty Act, Wounded Knee 1890, Ghostdance, Custer's Last Stand, Ghost Dance, A Century of Dishonor, Golden Spie, Bessemer Process, Nativism, Eugenics (ranking of the races), New Immigration, radio, Old Immigration, Helen Hunt Jackson, Faro, Buffalo Bill Cody, Wild Bill Hickock.

ELECTION OF 1884 CHART -- MUGWUMPS = REPUBLICANS FOR Cleveland. (Stalwarts are far right, Half Breeds wanted patronage reform)

Key Themes For Test ........

- Know about dirty Gilded Age Politics, especially The Election of 1884.

- What were the scandals under Grant?

- The Gap between the rich and the poor. How did unions try to improve upon these abuses?

- How did unions evolve? Were they too liberal at first? How did they differ from each other? What was the reaction to Haymarket and unions?

- What were the major strikes of the Gilded Age?

- What Acts were aimed at fixing the corruption?

- What were the major inventions of the Gilded Age?

How did Samuel Gompers and Terrence Powderly differ?

- What happened in the Wild West?

- How did the US Government handle Native Americans from Jackson to 1890?

- How did new immigration differ from old immigration?

- What happened to the buffalo on the frontier?

- How does the Melting Pot differ from the Salad Bowl?

- What were the acts of Congress that restricted immigration?

Essay Questions ........

1. Evaluate the extent to which the year 1877 ushered in change for the United States. (CONTINUITY AND CHANGE ESSAY)

2. Evaluate the extent to which the Gilded Age can be considered a golden era. (COMPARE AND CONTRAST ESSAY)

3. Evaluate the extent to which the West can be considered the "story of America" when considering the nineteenth century. (TURNING POINTS ESSAY)

 

Gilded Age 9:25-10:12, West and Immigration 10:44-11:43

 

 

                                     

 

 

 
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