1. Issues of the Gilded Age
Chapter 7
Issues of the Gilded Age

2. 7.1 Segregation and Social Trends
Objectives:
Assess how whites created a segregated society in the South and how African Americans responded
Analyze efforts to limit immigration and the effects
Compare the situations of Mexican Americans and of women to those of other groups

3. African Americans Lose Freedoms
Southern states got around the 15th amendment by enacting a poll tax
Literacy tests
Grandfather clauses
Jim Crow laws in South
Plessy v. Ferguson 1896 “separate but equal”

4. African Americans Oppose Injustices
Booker T. Washington
Should focus energy building up economic resources and establishing reputations
Vocational education
W.E.B. Du Bois
Demand full and immediate equality
Ida B. Wells
Newspaper “Free Speech”

5. Chinese Immigrants Face Discrimination
1879-CA barred cities from employing people of Chinese ancestry
“Oriental” School
Chinese Exclusion Act-banned Chinese laborers from entering the country
Federal courts
Yick Wo v. Hopkins –people of Chinese descent born in U.S. could not be stripped of citizenship

6. Mexican Americans Struggle in the West
Mexican-American War-after, Mexicans were guaranteed property rights
Burden of proof-lost land to Americans
Las Gorras Blancas
Group formed to get land back
Backed by the Knights of Labor

7. Women Make Gains and Suffer Setbacks
Susan B. Anthony
Wanted women included in 14th and 15th amendments
Formed the National Woman Suffrage Association
Fought for the right to vote
Number of women attending college increased

9. 7.2 Political and Economic Challenges
Objectives
Analyze the issue of corruption in national politics in the 1870s and 1880s
Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s and 1880s
Assess the importance of economic issues in the politics of the Gilded Age

10. Balance of Power Creates Stalemate
Party loyalties were extremely even
Made it hard to pass laws
Weak Presidents
Hayes, Harrison, Garfield, Arthur
Pres. Cleveland was known for integrity

11. Corruption in Politics
Many gov. officials accepted bribes
Political cartoons expressed concerns about the damaging effects of corruption and big money
Spoils System-gov. jobs to loyal party workers
Promoted civil service reform
Pendleton Civil Service Act: exam to get gov. job

12. Economic Issues
Gold standard-gov. used gold as the basis of the nation’s currency
Debates on tariffs
Republicans-favored high tariffs=promote jobs
Democrats-said high tariffs increased costs and made it difficult to sell abroad

19. Create your own! Create a political cartoon for the Gilded age.
Any topic from Ch. 6 or 7
Make sure you include
Caption
description of the drawing
Be creative!

20. 7.3 Farmers and Populism Objectives
Analyze the problems farmers faced and the groups they formed to address them
Assess the goals of the Populists, and explain why they Populist Party did not last

21. Farmers Face Many Problems
farm prices fell dramatically
Cost more to produce than they could get selling it
Tenement farmers
Blamed big business
Railroads and banks
Felt that gov. turned their back on them

22. Organize and Seek Change
Oliver H. Kelley-
The Grange: org. to promote education on new techniques and called for the regulation of railroads
Farmers’ Alliance
Collectively sold crops and wanted government to establish “sub-treasuries”

23. Populist Party The People’s Party 1882
“grass roots” and spread rapidly
Goals:
fight corruption
Increase monetary supply
gov. ownership of railroads

24. Economic Crisis and Populism’s Decline
Election of 1896-Bryan (D) v. McKinley (R)
Bryan-
“Cross of Gold Speech”
Indorsed by Populists
McKinley
Much more $ than Bryan
Won election
Party fell apart after election
Some reforms did become a reality