1. Regulation and Reforms
The Gilded Age
Regulation and Reforms

2. Objects:
People:
Time/Title: “The Trustworthy Beast” (1888)
Inferences: Because I see ___________________, I can infer Andrew Carnegie…
Conclusion: The most important thing in this cartoon is _________________ because it sends the message that…

3. Labor Unions
*An organization of workers formed to promote collective bargaining with employers over wages, hours, benefits, job security, and working conditions
*The Knights of Labor

5. Collective Bargaining

6. Labor Strikes *Homestead Steel Strike *Pullman Strike
*Higher intervention needed? Hey, where is our government!?

8. Civil Service Reform
*No more spoils system! (Merit not who you know!

9. Sherman-Anti Trust Act (1890)
*U.S. federal law that forbade any organizations that interfered with free trade by prohibiting monopolies or any activity that hindered business competition
*What about the free-enterprise system?

11. Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
* U.S. federal law that was designed to regulate the railroad industry which required railroad rates to be “reasonable and just”
*Not very successful (lacked resources + appointed pro-railroad commissioners)   

13. Pendleton Act (1883)
*U.S. federal law requiring federal jobs to be awarded on the basis of merit rather than the spoils system
*Competitive exams for gov. jobs rather than ties to politicians or political affiliation
*Illegal to fire or demote gov. official for political reasons