1. In your Writing Notebook
Do a compare/contrast of Democrats and Republicans in the Gilded Age.
Take into consideration issues such as monetary policy and tariffs, supporters, regions, beliefs about role of government, etc
Then, write a thesis answering the following question:
Compare and contrast the Republican and Democratic parties during the Gilded Age.

2. Democrats v Republicans
Reps- “bloody shirt” of Civil War; reformers, African Americans; business, middle-class, Anglo-Saxon Protestants; temperance; Hamilton/Whigs pro-business, high tariffs
Dems-solid south, in the north- big city political machines, immigrants, Catholic, Lutheran, Jews; states’ rights, Jeffersonian