The Gilded Age saw a transformation of America from a rural, agricultural nation to an industrialized, urban nation with large-scale immigration. The population increased 300% and manufacturing grew 1000% between 1865-1920. New corporate structures like trusts and holding companies consolidated power, leading some businessmen like Carnegie to amass huge fortunes while others like Gould were widely hated. Labor unions arose but were suppressed. Government was largely corrupt and served business interests through subsidies and lax regulation. Westward expansion displaced Native Americans and Mexican-Americans, and Chinese immigrants faced discrimination. The period was defined by social Darwinism and economic individualism.
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History 2020: United States Since 1877
Lecture 1: Gilded Age
1979: Dysfunctional presidency, do-nothing Congress, immigration crisis, ecological disasters, foreign affairs beyond control, ever-present terrorism
Background
*New World: Land, opportunity, promise, “Last best hope of man”
*Dark Side: Native Americans, Slavery
*Glue: Constitution, economic opportunity
*Civil War: made America, divided America, on-going process
*Reconstruction: promise, failure
Question: What forces inspired and led America in the late nineteenth-century?
One: Politics
Voting: no secret ballot, voting in public; yet high voter interest and turnout
African-Americans were Republicans!
Equilibrium: 1865 to 1889
Presidency: Republicans 5, Democrats: 1
Senate: Republicans 10, Democrats: 2
House: Republicans: 6, Democrats 6
High interest in politics; the “power” rested in Congress
Issues: Immigration, tariff, civil service reform, monetary policy, corruption, Bloody Shirt
Thomas Nast: Elephant and Donkey
Grant and scandals
The Election of 1876
Democrat: Samuel J. Tilden, Governor of New York, instrumental in bringing down the Tweed Ring.
Republican: Rutherford B. Hayes, Governor of Ohio, Civil War general
Results: Tilden, 184: 4,300,000 185 to win
Hayes: 165: 4,036,000
FL: 4, LA: 8, SC: 7, OR: 1 = 20
David Davis and a special commission of 15 members
The Compromise of 1877
1. Reconstruction would end.
2. One Southerner on the cabinet
3. Patronage for Southerners
4. Internal improvements in the South
5. Aid for the Texas and Pacific Railroad
The Hayes Administration
Ruterfraud B. Hayes, Your Fraudulency, Lemonade Lucy
Republican Party Tensions:
Roscoe Conkling led the Stalwarts: machine politics
James G. Blaine led the Half-Breeds: civil service reform
Hayes favored civil service reform, but could do little about it.
Finally he removed Chester A. Arthur and Alonzo Cornell from the New York Customs House.
Conkling then blocked Hayes’s appointments.
Hayes won in the end, but at great political cost.
The Election of 1880
Democrat: Winfield Scott Hancock: Civil War Hero (no Bloody Shirt here!)
James A. Garfield: Civil War Hero and member of the US House
Garfield was a Half-Breed, to keep the Stalwarts happy, Chester A. Arthur was selected to run for vice-president.
“From the tow path to the White House”
Hancock: 155, 4,444,260
Garfield: 214, 4,446,158
A difference of 1,598 in the popular vote
The Assassination of Garfield
July 2, 1881, Charles Guiteau shot Garfield at a train station in Washington.
“I am a Stalwart and Arthur is president now.”
Garfield lived for nearly three months, dying on September 19, 1881.
The Arthur Administration
Few positive expectations for the former Conklinite spoilsman. Even his birthplace was in question.
Arthur, however, arose to the occasion and dismayed party bosses.
The Pendleton Act of 1883 placed a limited number of federal job ...
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One of the central stories of American history has been the settleme.pdfmalavshah9013
One of the central stories of American history has been the settlement of the West. What push
and pull factors led millions of Americans and immigrants to pour into the West in the decades
after the Civil War? What impact did western settlement by whites have on Indians in the
region? What problems did westerners face once they got there? Why did so many westerners
see the People’s/Populist Party as an answer to those problems? How would you rate the
Populists’ success?
Solution
The railroads created the first great concentrations of capital, spawned the first massive
corporations, made the first of the vast fortunes that would define the “Gilded Age,” unleashed
labor demands that united thousands of farmers and immigrants, and linked many towns and
cities. National railroad mileage tripled in the twenty years after the outbreak of the Civil War,
and tripled again over the four decades that followed. Railroads impelled the creation of uniform
time zones across the country, gave industrialists access to remote markets, and opened the
American west. Railroad companies were the nation’s largest businesses. Their vast national
operations demanded the creation of innovative new corporate organization, advanced
management techniques, and vast sums of capital. Their huge expenditures spurred countless
industries and attracted droves of laborers. And as they crisscrossed the nation, they created a
national market, a truly national economy, and, seemingly, a new national culture.3
The railroads were not natural creations. Their vast capital requirements required the use of
incorporation, a legal innovation that protected shareholders from losses. Enormous amounts of
government support followed. Federal, state, and local governments offered unrivaled handouts
to create the national rail networks.
Lincoln’s Republican Party—which dominated government policy during the Civil War and
Reconstruction—passed legislation granting vast subsidies. Hundreds of millions of acres of land
and millions of dollars’ worth of government bonds were freely given to build the great
transcontinental railroads and the innumerable trunk lines that quickly annihilated the vast
geographic barriers that had so long sheltered American cities from one another
As railroad construction drove economic development, new means of production spawned new
systems of labor. Many wage earners had traditionally seen factory work as a temporary
stepping-stone to attaining their own small businesses or farms. After the war, however, new
technology and greater mechanization meant fewer and fewer workers could legitimately aspire
to economic independence. Stronger and more organized labor unions formed to fight for a
growing, more-permanent working class. At the same time, the growing scale of economic
enterprises increasingly disconnected owners from their employees and day-to-day business
operations. To handle their vast new operations, owners turned to managers. Educated
bureaucrats swelled t.
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Week two, gilded age
1. The Gilded Age
Dr. John Holmes
U.S. History After 1877, History 121,
Diablo Valley College San Ramon
Summer 2013
2. The Transformation of America
Before 1877, America a rural nation
After 1877, America industrializes,
urbanizes, and immigrates
This class: industrialization
1865-1920:
Population increases 300%
Manufacturing 1000%
GNP per capita more than 300%
3. America before 1877
The First Industrial Revolution
Centered in New England
Iron railroads in North
Small factories, individual owners
Railroad companies, state not
federal subsidy
Millionaires and big businesses
few and far between
But by WWI, U.S. Steel the biggest
company in the world
4. The Corporation
Sale of stocks means:
Separation of ownership and
control
Stockholders vs. management
Key role of banks as financiers
From free competition to monopoly
Henry Demarest Lloyd, doc. 18-3
Railroads: the first big corporations
5. The Robber Barons
Symbols of the Gilded Age
Widely hated:
By laborers;
By farmers;
By small businessmen
6. Jay
Gould
Most hated man in America
Grant Administration scandals
His own views: doc. 18-1
Robert Ingersoll on Gould
Sayings:
I can hire one half of the working class to
kill the other half.
The effect of this policy will be to anni-
hilate the Indians & so greatly benefit us.
7. Andrew
Carnegie
Richest man in world. Gould’s
opposite. Doc. 18-4
Brilliant businessman
Price of steel: $126 a ton in 1864,
less than 20 in 1890s
Steel empire founded on rails for
railroads
Gave it all away
Carnegie Institute
8. Corruption of the Gilded Age
Government favoritism to business
Railroads and the Homestead Act
The lobbyist: free rail passes
Where to draw the line?
The bank bailout
9. Government before the Civil War
Federal Government barely existed
The army, the mails
Tariffs on imports
Half of all government revenue
Northern business: high tariffs for
“improvements”
Southern plantation owners were
opposed
The great political issue of the 19th
Century
10. After the Civil War
First federal income tax
Homestead Act in 1862
The great land giveaway
1850: 63% of all land federal
1912: half that
The thin line between economic
development and corruption
11. Political Results of the
Compromise of 1877
North Republican, South Democratic
“politics of dead center”
Party politics a national obsession
Political and social conflict about rich
and poor, not North and South
12. Politics after 1877
Party differences mostly rhetorical
Huge corruption in government at all
levels
Hardly any social welfare spending
Intense political life, spoils system
Plunkett, doc. 19-5
Urban social services through
parties
Ward heelers and the poor
13. Labor Unions arise after Civil War
1865-1900: wages of skilled
workers double, unskilled decline
Craft and industrial unionism
National Labor Union
Founded in 1866
Based on local craft unions
Votes to admit women and blacks,
but In practice, usually doesn’t
Attempt to establish labor party
Collapses in Depression of 1870s
14. The Knights of Labor
Industrial unionism: skilled and
unskilled, men and women, white
and black
Exclusion of Chinese: Doc. 18-1
“Producerism”: cooperatives as
alternative to capitalism, alliance
with farmers
Manufacturers can join as fellow
producers
16. The Great Upheaval of 1886
1885: Knights of Labor defeat Jay
Gould in rail strike
K of L grows like wildfire
8 hour day and Mayday
Haymarket and Albert Parsons
Powderly comes out against
strikes; K of L collapses
18. The American Federation
of Labor
Samuel Gompers
National craft unionism
“Pure and Simple”
Skilled workers, high dues
Unskilled, immigrants, blacks and
women excluded
No more involvement with politics
19. The West during the Gilded Age
The reader, Chapter 17
Doc. 17-2, the pioneer experience
17-3: Mexican Americans in
Southwest
17-4: The Indian experience from
the Indian viewpoint
17-5: The reservations, what the
US government had in mind for
Native Americans
17-1: the Chinese in California
20. The Ideology of the Gilded Age
Economic individualism, free
market, Adam Smith
No land redistribution in South
Protestant Work Ethic and the
Puritans
Democrats and Republicans
Social Darwinism
Darwin, Spencer and Sumner
Carnegie and Gould
21. Discussion Exercise on
Gilded Age Ideology
Ungraded practice exercise
Based on documents in reader
Chapter 18, from Gould, Sumner,
Lloyd, Carnegie and George, 18-1
through 18-5
See Discussion Questions posting
22. Next Class
The Crisis of the 1890s: Populism,
Depression; War and Jim Crow
Discussion Exercise on Spanish-
American War Thursday
Readings:
Foner, Chapter 17
Johnson, Chapters 19 and 20;
docs. 21-5 and 21-6
