1. The Gilded Age: troubles lurked despite good times
Chapter 3, Section 4

2. Racial Discrimination
Jim Crow Laws – laws that separated black and whites
Plessy v. Ferguson: separate but equal
Booker T. Washington and Ida B. Wells
Mexican & Chinese Americans
Sided with whites over southwest land
Las Gorras Blancas
Prohibited Chinese from working
Banned Chinese immigration

3. Government Graft – bribery Pendelton Act – civil service system
Test for job
Weeds out the crazies
Populism
People’s Party and Farmers’ Alliance form
Cost of transportation and railroads
William J. Bryant v. McKinley

4. Review Questions The Sherman Act outlawed ____________?
Southern farmers crops were wiped out by ____________?
Susan B. Anthony led the fight for the rights of ______________?
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5. Essay Questions
What factors led to the successful expansion of industry in the United States?
What were the main factors leading to the rise in immigration, and what did immigrants experience when they arrived in the United States?