The Gilded Age and Urban and Rural Discontent

The Gilded Age andUrban and Rural Discontent

APUSH – Unit 7

Reading Keys

Urbanization/ImmigrationPages 565-577 Growth of Urban Areas

Challenges Rise of Immigration

Who & why?Native reactionsGovernment restrictions

Social Change and ReformPages 578-594 Religious change Darwin’s Theory African-Americans

Education Booker T. vs. W.E.B.

Horatio Alger Women’s Rights Prohibition Movement

Rise of the RailroadsPages 536-545 Expansion of the Railways Transcontinental Success Improvements and innovations Abuses Government actions and regulations

Robber Barons / Gospel of WealthPages 545-551 Andrew Carnegie John D. Rockefeller J.P. Morgan Social Darwinism Gospel of Wealth

Changing Economy of the South & Rise of Labor Pages 551-562 Southern Industry Labor vs. Management Knights of Labor Haymarket Riot American Federation of Labor

Closing the Western FrontierPages 598-608 “Indian ‘Wars” “Buffalo Wars” Reservations and assimilation Growth of mining

Ranchers and Farmers Pages 609-620 Closing of the Frontier

Cattle DrivesHomesteads

Plight of the FarmerGrangeFarmers’ Alliance

Harrison and the Rise of PopulismPages 623-632 Billion Dollar Congress

Public impact / response Rise of the Populist Party Election of 1892 Panic of 1893 Pullman Strike

Money and McKinley Pages 633-638 Election of 1896

Gold vs. SilverCross of Gold

End of Silverites End of Populism