During the Gilded Age, the Republican and Democratic parties disagreed on economic issues like monetary policy, tariffs, and aid to businesses. The Republicans supported policies to protect industry while the Democrats favored policies to help farmers. Several presidents from this era, including Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, and Harrison, faced challenges around political factions and economic downturns. Immigration increased, but some groups like the Chinese faced exclusion. Cities modernized with new transportation and skyscrapers, though urbanization created social problems. Reform movements emerged addressing issues like prohibition, education, and discrimination.
*Cartoons, Engravings and Etchings from ReconstructionLisa M Lane
*NOTE: This was a slideshow with audio. See it now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkEvXKRPu0&list=UURtoTdtsenEIQ5Ll8BiuaeQ.
Brief slide show with audio about Reconstruction in the south following the American Civil War.
A brief look at the background of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois as a set up to their ideas as to how best to achieve African American equality in the United States in the early 20th Century.
*Cartoons, Engravings and Etchings from ReconstructionLisa M Lane
*NOTE: This was a slideshow with audio. See it now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZkEvXKRPu0&list=UURtoTdtsenEIQ5Ll8BiuaeQ.
Brief slide show with audio about Reconstruction in the south following the American Civil War.
A brief look at the background of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois as a set up to their ideas as to how best to achieve African American equality in the United States in the early 20th Century.
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2. Gilded Age
The Politics
Laissez-Faire
Republicans and Democrats had equal supporters
Republicans favored
-Tight money supply backed by gold
-High tariffs to protect American Business
-Generous pensions for union soldiers
-Government aid to the railroads
-Strict limits on immigration
-Enforcement of Blue Laws
Democrats favored:
-Increased money supply backed by silver
-Lower tariffs on imported goods
-Higher farm prices
-Less government aid to big businesses
-Fewer Blue Laws
4. The Immigrants
Statue of Liberty
Required physical examination
In the West
Chinese Exclusion Act
The Cities
Transportation in Cities
Skyscrapers
Home Insurance Company Building
Degraded quickly
Ideas for Reform
American Protective Association
Prohibition
Social Gospel Movement
6. Education
Public Schools
Colleges
African Americans
Booker T. Washington
W.E.B. DuBois
Entertainment
Moving Pictures
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuto7qWrplc
Vaudeville
Sports
Newspapers
Ragtime and Jazz
Discrimination
Voting Restrictions
Jim Crow Laws
Plessy V. Ferguson
Lynching
Women
Department Stores
Work
Women’s Suffrage Association