1. The Gilded Age, Populism, the Politics of Change
(- 1 - Understand the main issues supported
by Populists
and How the Populist Movement started)
*** How is political change accomplished? ***

2. Peoples Party (Populist Party)
Populist Era –
Political ideals changed America!!!!
Grassroots level organization …

3. Abolition Movement, 1777 - 1865 William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass

4. Women’s Suffrage Movement, 1848 - 1920
Susan B. Anthony
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Alice Paul

5. March For Our Lives, March 24, 2018

6. Turn to your neighbor and discuss, “Are there examples of ordinary people making a difference in our communities and our country?”
“When in history?”

7. ** “Grassroots change” …

8. ** “The Populist Era” – 1890-1900
1870
1880
1890
1900
** “The Gilded Age” –
** “The Populist Era” –
- Deflation …
- The Money Supply …
- “The Crime of ’73” …
- Coinage Act of 1873 – money backed by gold only, not silver
- How this especially hurts farmers …

9. Politics in the Gilded Age
Not on Mount Rushmore!!
“1870 – 1900”
** Read pages 376, beginning at “Corruption Continues in Subsequent Administrations” to 377, answering …
- (1) Who won the presidency in a secret deal to end Reconstruction?
- (2) Which president maintained his reputation?
- (3) What was the spoils system?
- (4) What was the political machine?
- (5) What was voter turnout during this era?
Ulysses S. Grant (1869 – 1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 – 1881)
Grover Cleveland (1885 – 1889 & )

10. 1860s
1870
1880
1890
1900
** “The Gilded Age” –
= Corruption

11. Politics in the Gilded Age
Not on Mount Rushmore!!
“1870 – 1900”
Ulysses S. Grant (1869 – 1877)
- (#1) Hayes: “His Fraudulency” & Compromise of 1877
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 – 1881)
Grover Cleveland (1885 – 1889 & )

12. Military Reconstruction Act of 1867
[1] Military Occupation of the South with federal troops
Democrats
control the
South

13. Compromise of 1877
Contested election of Samuel Tilden (Democrat) and Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican).
Political agreement ends Reconstruction.

14. Politics in the Gilded Age
Not on Mount Rushmore!!
“1870 – 1900”
- (#2) Cleveland: Only president to serve two non-consecutive terms
- (#3) “Spoils system” …
- (#5) High voter turn-out
- “The bloody shirt”
Ulysses S. Grant (1869 – 1877)
Rutherford B. Hayes (1877 – 1881)
Grover Cleveland (1885 – 1889 & )

15. (#4) “Party bosses” & the political urban machine
“1870 – 1900”
(#4) “Party bosses” & the political urban machine

16. Politics in the Gilded Age
“1870 – 1900”
“Black Friday” scandal – September 24, 1869
Attempt to corner the gold market …
1872 – “Credit Mobilier” fraud
“Dummy” construction company & excessive prices
1873 – “Lord Gordon-Gordon Incident”
Fraud from Scotland …
Corruption!!
Jay Gould
Lord Gordon-Gordon … Is this his real name? We don’t know.