Politics, Culture, and Daily Life in the Gilded Age

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Politics, Culture, and Daily Life in the Gilded
Age

• (1865 1900)

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The Gilded Age

• The Gilded Age 1873 novel by Mark Twain
• Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn
• Crooked politicians
• The Spoils System
• Poverty

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Conspicuous Consumerism

• More people working for wages instead of
  themselves
• More products available
• R. Macy, Jordan Marsh, Mont. Ward, M. Field,J.
  Wannamaker Department Stores
• RFD Mail Order Catalogs (like Richard Sears)

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New Forms of Popular Entertainment

• Saloons and Ragtime
• Amusement Parks like Coney Island, NYC
• Nickelodeons - The Great Train Robbery (1903)
• Vaudeville Shows - Family Variety Shows
• Traveling Circuses

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Popular Sports of the Era

• Baseball - Cincinnati Red Stockings (1869)
• Football - Walter Camp - Rugby (1880s)
• Basketball - Dr. James Naismith (1891)
• Boxing, Horseracing, Ice Skating, Bikes

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Exit Slip Popular Culture during the Gilded Age

1. T or F Conspicuous Consumerism exists when
   demand is low for manufactured goods.
2. T or F Movie theatres began to appear in America
   during the Gilded Age.
3. T or F Ragtime appeared as a popular form of
   music during the Gilded Age.
4. T or F Basketball was the most popular sport in
   American during the Gilded Age.

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African American Voting Restrictions

• Ku Klux Klan (1865)
• Jim Crow Laws
• Poll Taxes
• Property Ownership
• Literacy Tests (separate tests for whites and
  blacks)
• Grandfather Clauses

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Booker T. Washington

• Tuskegee Inst. (1881) in Alabama
• Vocational Skills
• Accommodate Racism in exchange for Economic
  Equality
• George W. Carver
• Up From Slavery (1901) Biography

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W.E.B. DuBois

• PhD from Harvard (1895)-1st Af. Am.
• Niagara Movement (1905)
• NAACP (1910)
• Advocated immediate equality for Af. Am.
• Hated Washingtons Atlanta Compromise
• and Accommodation.

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Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

• Upheld the Jim Crow Laws
• Separate but Equal didnt violate 14th
  Amendment
• Common in the North too
• Not overturned until 1954

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Exit Slip The Age of Jim Crow

• 1. All of the following were passed in Southern
  states to keep African-Americans from voting
  except
• a. poll taxes. b. literacy tests. c.
  amendments.
• 2. Booker T. Washington said the 1 concern for
  African-Americans should be ___________.
• a. fighting racism b. vocational skills c.
  Religion
• 3. W.E.B. DuBois strongly ________ with
  Washington.
• a. Agreed b. Disagreed
• 4. The landmark court case that established the
  doctrine of separate but equal in 1896 was
• a. Brown v. Topeka b. Tinker v. Des
  Moines
• c. Plessy v. Ferguson d. Gibbons v. Ogden

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The Rise of Political Machines

• Goal was to keep their political parties in power
• Spoils System, Patronage, Graft
• Ran by bosses appealed to immigrants
• Boss Tweed and Tammany Hall, NYC
• Cartoonist Thomas Nast

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Reforming the Spoils System

• 1829- Andrew Jackson
• Dem. Rep. both were guilty
• Grantism
• Pres. Hayes begun reform in 1877, but lost in 1880

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Arthur Ends the Spoils System

• James Garfield (R) elected in 1880
• July 2, 1881-Killed by Charles Guiteau
• Lived for 3 months
• (VP) Chester Arthur is President
• Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883)

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Exit Slip The Spoils System

• 1. The most famous political machine of the era
  was ___________ Hall in New York.
• a. Carnegie b. Tammany c. Cooper d.
  Alumni
• 2. The political cartoonist who helped bring
  Boss Tweed to justice was __________.
• a. Charles Schultz b. Chester Arthur c.
  Thomas Nast
• 3. The term Grantism refers to __________.
• a. Raising taxes b. Honesty c. Bravery
  d. Scandal
• 4. The second U.S. President assassinated was
  _________.
• a. James Garfield b. William McKinley c.
  U.S. Grant