N.+The+Gilded+Age

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**The Gilded Age **

//The Gilded Age fostered the consolidation of business, the government, and disadvantaged economic and social classes.//
 * Organizing Principle:**

· Civil War as a Stimulus · Factors Promoting Industrial Growth || · Social Darwinism · //Gospel of Wealth// · Horatio Alger (Myth) · Captains of Industry" || · The Writers   · Reform Darwinism   · Robber Barons" || · Knights of Labor · AFL · Others || · Great Railroad Strike · Haymarket · Homestead · Pullman · Public reaction to the strikes/violence || · “New Immigrants” · Nativism · Urbanization || · Eugene Debs · Thorstein Veblen · Henry George’s //Progress// //and Poverty// (Single Tax) · Edward Bellamy’s //Looking// //Backward// (Socialism) · Pragmatism || · Gospel of Wealth || · Religion (Salvation Army, Christian Science) · Temperance (WCTU, Anti-Saloon League) · Education (  · Susan B. Anthony and the Suffrage Movement ||  · Realism and Naturalism in Literature   · Painting (Ashcan School)   · Popular Culture (Sports, Circus) ||  · Political Machines   · Tammany Hall and Boss Tweed   · Thomas Nast ||  · Currency   · Tariffs   · Immigration   · Anti-trust legislation ||  · President Chester Arthur ||  · Stalwarts and Halfbreeds   · Mugwumps   · Pendleton Act || o Who  o Goals  o Omaha Platform ||  · Candidates   · Issues   · Gold Standard   · Results   · Impact ||
 * · Second Industrial Revolution
 * · Big Business
 * Railroads
 * Oil
 * Steel
 * Banking ||
 * · Business Practices
 * Pools
 * Trusts
 * Monopolies
 * Vertical Integration vs. Horizontal Integration ||
 * · Justifying Laissez-Faire Capitalism
 * · Opposition to Laissez-Faire Capitalism
 * · Impact of Industrialization on
 * Economy
 * Society
 * Politics ||
 * · The Labor Movement and National Unions
 * · The Labor Movement and Strikes
 * · Gilded Age Society
 * · Critics/Thinkers of the Period
 * · Settlement House Movement ||
 * · Social Gospel
 * · Reform Movements
 * · Culture
 * · Politics in the Gilded Age
 * · Political Issues of the times
 * · President Grant ||
 * · President Rutherford B. Hayes ||
 * · President James Garfield
 * · President Grover Cleveland ||
 * · President Benjamin Harrison ||
 * · President Grover Cleveland (again) ||
 * · Civil Service Reform
 * · The Populist Movement
 * · Panic of 1893 ||
 * · Election of 1896