Issues of the Gilded Age

1. Issues of the Gilded Age Honors American History Chapter 7

2. What other types of discrimination and segregation did they face? Segregation and Discrimination • What were Jim Crow laws? • What was the worst outcome of discrimination?

3. Turn of the Century Black America • Jim Crow Laws • Poll Taxes • Literacy Tests • Segregated Facilities • Social Practices • Sharecropping

4. Plessy vs. Ferguson1896

6. Fighting Back – Booker T. Washington • Worked to establish vocational training for African-Americans. • Thought it was too soon for African-Americans to expect full political rights. • Worked openly with the white establishment. • Founded Tuskegee Institute.

8. Fighting Back – W.E.B. DuBois • Demanded full political rights for blacks immediately. • First African-American to earn a PhD from Harvard • Wanted a classical education for African-Americans • Helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)

9. Ida Wells Barnett

10. Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) White-Controlled Politicians and Law Enforcement Ku Klux Klan Lynching Enforcement of Jim Crow

11. Who was an African-American reformer? • Ida Wells • Booker T. Washington • WEB DuBois • All of the above

12. Hispanic Americans What problems did they face? Asian Americans What did they face? Women What problems did they face? Other groups face discrimination

13. What was the key date in the women's suffrage movement? • 1848 • 1869 • 1872 • 1920 • All of the above

14. What was the worst possible outcome of discrimination? • Denial to vote • Lynchings • Lower wages • Poll Taxes • Literacy Tests • Sharecropping

15. Section 7.2 PoliticalandEconomicChallenges

16. Who controlled the local government in American cities in the late 1800’s? Political Scandal and Reform Who led these groups? How did they get support? What was the notorious of these groups in NYC?

17. Who is this individual? • James Garfield • Boss Tweed • US Grant • Roscoe Conkling • Chester Arthur • Thomas Nast

18. Who is this individual? What happened to him?

19. The Presidency as a Symbolic Office • Party bosses ruled. • Presidents should avoid offending anyfactions within theirown party. • The President justdoled out federal jobs. • 1865  53,000 people worked for the federal govt. • 1890  166,000 “ “ “ “ “ “ Senator Roscoe Conkling

20. Grant becomes President in 1869 Cre’dit Mobilier Scandal Presidential Scandal

21. 1880 Presidential Election: Republicans Half Breeds Stalwarts Sen. James G. Blaine Sen. Roscoe Conkling (Maine) (New York) compromise How were his views different? What political views did he have? James A. Garfield Chester A. Arthur (VP)

22. Garfield

23. 1881: Garfield Assassinated! Charles Guiteau:I Am a Stalwart, and Arthur is President now! What was he trying to accomplish by killing Garfield?

24. What was he trying to accomplish by killing Garfield? • Place a Stalwart in the Presidency • Replace Garfield • Support the “Spoils System” • Show that he is insane • All of the above.

25. Chester A. Arthur:The Fox in the Chicken Coop? How did he surprise his supporters?

26. The Pendleton Civil Service Act was passed: • After McKinley became President • By the Tammany Hall Political Machine • After President Garfield was assasinated • Immigrants became a force in national politics

27. Pendleton Act (1883) • Civil Service Act. • The “Magna Carta” of civil service reform. • Promotion based on??? • 1883  14,000 out of117,000 federal govt.jobs became civilservice exam positions. • 1900  100,000 out of 200,000 civil service federal govt. jobs.

28. Populism: An Agrarian Revolt 7.3

29. Founder of the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry (1867)

30. The Grange Movement • Wanted to regulate the railroad rates. What does this lead to? • First organized in the 1870s in the Midwest, the south, and Texas. • Set up cooperative associations. • Social and educational components. • Succeeded in lobbying for “Granger Laws.” • Rapidly declined by the late 1870s.

31. The Farmers Alliances • Begun in the 1870s (Built upon the ashes of the Grange.) • Wanted more paper money in circulation. Why?? • More political and less social than the Grange. • Ran candidates for office. • Controlled 8 state legislatures & had 47representatives in Congress during the 1890s.

32. Farmers Alliance forms political party • 1873 Congress puts US dollar on gold standard • Reduces the amount of money in circulation • Impact on farmers?? • What do farmers want? Why?

33. What did the Populist Party want? • Government ownership of the railroads • Bank regulation • Graduated income tax • Free coinage of silver • All of the above

34. The Populist (Peoples’) Party • Founded by James B. Weaverand Tom Watson. • Omaha, NE Convention in July,1892. • Got almost 1 million popularvotes. • Several Congressional seatswon. • What did they want? James B. Weaver, Presidential Candidate &James G. Field, VP

35. Populist Farmers wanted more money in circulation in order to: • Decrease the value of their debts • Strengthen the Republican Party • Slow down foreign immigration • Strengthen the Gold Standard

36. 1892 Presidential Election Grover Cleveland Benjamin Harrison again! * (DEM) (REP)

37. 1892 Presidential Election

38. Cleveland Loses Support Fast! • The only President to serve two non-consecutive terms. • Blamed for the 1893 Panic. • Defended the gold standard. • Used federal troops in the 1894Pullman strike. • Refused to sign the Wilson-GormanTariff of 1894. • Repealed the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. (Why was this a problem?)

39. The Panic of 1893

40. Causes of the 1893 Panic • Begun 10 days after Cleveland took office. • Several major corps. went bankrupt.(RR) • Over 16,000 businesses disappeared. • Triggered a stock market crash. • Over-extended investments. • Bank failures followed causing a contractionof credit [nearly 500 banks closed]. • By 1895, unemployment reached 3 million. • Americans cried out for relief, but the Govt.continued its laissez faire policies!! • Cleveland blames Sherman Silver Purchase Act

41. Bi-Metallism Issue

42. East Coast Bankers (Rich) Creditors (They have provided loans to farmers for land, seed, machinery, etc.) Back the Gold Standard Want the amount of currency in U.S. to stay fixed or low growth. Plains Farmers (Poor) Debtors (They have taken out loans that they must pay back) Back the Free Coinage of Silver Want the amount of currency in the U.S. to expand 19th Century Monetary Fight

43. The 1896 Election

44. William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) The “Great Commoner”

45. William Jennings Bryan Prairie avenger, mountain lion, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Gigantic troubadour, speaking like a siege gun, Smashing Plymouth Rock with his boulders from the West. • Revivalist style of oratory.

46. Bryan’s“Cross of Gold” Speech You shall not press down upon the brow of labor this crown of thorns; you shall not crucify mankind upon across of gold!

47. William McKinley (1843-1901)

48. 1896 Election Results

49. Why Did Bryan Lose? • His focus on ______ underminedefforts to build bridges to urbanvoters. • He did not form alliances withother groups. Business leaders feared him, gave money to _______. • __________’s campaign was well-organized and highly funded.

50. What Populist Party reform survived to be accepted by the major parties? • Graduated income tax • Regulation of the railroads • More flexible monetary system • All of the above