1. Chapter 6

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

3. Spoils System
Presidents
1880 Election
Republican party split 3 ways:
1) Stalwarts
2) Half-Breeds
3) Independents
-Garfield
-Arthur
1884 Election
-Cleveland
1888 Election
-Harrison
1892 Election
-Cleveland
-1893 Depression
1896 Election
-McKinley

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

5. Chapter 7

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