1. Knights Charge 2/22
In one word, describe American politics during the Gilded Age.
What was a political machine? Who ran the biggest one in New York?
Who uncovered the corruption of political machines? How?
What were two problems farmers faced during the Gilded Age?
What were two movements that protested for farmers?
What political party was founded to protect farmers? Who led it?
What platform did they run under?

2. Segregation and African American Rights during the Gilded Age

3. Focusing Points
What were some of the injustices faced by African Americans during the late 1800’s and early 1900’s
Who were some of the main leaders of racial equality during the Gilded Age?
How did they want to achieve change?

4. Frederick Douglass Quote
“ Though we have had war, reconstruction, and abolition as a nation, we still linger in the shadow and blight of an extinct institution. Though the colored man is no longer subject to be bought and sold, he is still surrounded by an adverse sentiment, which fetters all his movements. In his downward course meets with no resistance, but his course upward is resented and resisted at every step of his progress.”
-Frederick Douglass, 1883

5. Segregation and Social Tensions
Voting Rights were restricted for African-Americans
Poll tax- paid to enter the voting booth
Literacy tests
Grandfather clause
Allowed a person to vote as long as their ancestors voted before 1866
*Whites only could vote*

6. Racial Segregation Jim Crow laws Plessy v. Ferguson
Segregated public places
De Jure- By law (South)
De Facto- By society North)
Plessy v. Ferguson
Ruled that blacks were “Separate but Equal” in public places

7. Booker T Washington African Americans oppose injustices
Called for blacks to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps”
Build economic resources
Establish reputations as hardworking honest citizens
Atlanta Compromise- Blacks must submit to white rule in exchange for educational and professional opportunities

8. The Atlanta Compromise
“Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.”
-Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise”, 1895

10. Booker T Washington Bio

11. W.E.B. DuBois W.E.B. Du Bois black educator
1st to receive doctorate from Harvard
Argued that blacks should demand full and immediate equality
Voting was a right that blacks needed to earn
Co-Founded the NAACP

12. W.E.B. DuBois and the Niagara Movement

13. Short Biography of W.E.B. DuBois

14. Ida B. Wells Ida B. Wells Fought discrimination
Embarked on lifelong crusade against lynching

15. Mexican Americans Struggle in the West
Mexican American lost much land to Anglo Americans in the west
Las Gorras Blancas- Fought to protect the right of Mexican Americans for their loss of land

16. Women’s Rights
Many women were angry that they were not included in the 14th and 15th amendments
Susan B. Anthony
Fought for Women’s suffrage
Formed the National Women’s Suffrage Association

17. Susan B. Anthony Bio