Important legislation passed under the Northern/Republican Congress during the Civil War:
Explain the growth and importance of the Transcontinental Railroad to the development of industry, markets, and the West:
Rise of Industry, big business, and tycoons:
Labor, Unions, and government regulations
New South:
Urbanization, Immigration and the changing roles of Women:
The West:
Farming and agriculture in the Gilded Age:
Rise of Populism and the Populist Party:
- Pacific Railway Act
- Homestead Act
- Morrill Land Grant
Explain the growth and importance of the Transcontinental Railroad to the development of industry, markets, and the West:
- Union Pacific
- Central Pacific
- Leland Stanford
- Chinese/Irish immigrants (coolies and paddies) relations/issues resulting as workers on the railroad
- Promontory Point Utah
- describe the purpose of government subsidies and land grants for the railroads
- explain the effects of scandals and corruption in the railroad industry (Credit Mobieler Scandal, pools, stock watering, Jay Gould)
- pools
- Significance and importance of the growth of America's railroad network
Rise of Industry, big business, and tycoons:
- The Robber Barons/Captains of Industry, who they were, the industries they controlled, the tactics they used, and their contributions to the industrialization of the United States. (Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P. Morgan, Gustavus F. Swift and Philip Armour, James Buchanan Duke)
- Explain the tactics used by industrialists to monopolize an industrial sector (horizontal and vertical integration, trusts, interlocking directorates, the theories of Social Darwinism and the Gospel of Wealth)
- Bessemer Process
Labor, Unions, and government regulations
- Slaughterhouse Case
- Munn v. Illinois
- Wabash Case
- Interstate Commerce Act/Interstate Commerce Commission
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (what was its purpose, effectiveness, and how was it used initially)
- Collective bargaining
- National Labor Union (successes and failures)
- Great Railroad Strike
- Knights of Labor/Terence Powderly (successes and failures)
- Haymarket Square riot/bombing (cause/effects on the labor movement)
- American Federation of Labor (AFL)/Samuel Gompers (successes and failures)
- closed shop
- Homestead Strike (reasons and outcome)
- Pullman Strike (reasons and outcome)
- Eugene V. Debs and the American Railway Union
- Scabs
- Homestead Steel Strike
New South:
- Henry Grady and his plan for the "New South" and reasons for its lack of success
- identify the goals of the Redeemers in the "New South"
- describe and explain the effects of sharecropping, tenant farming, and the crop-lien system in the "New South"
- racism/discrimination in the South (Black Codes, Jim Crow Laws, literacy tests, poll taxes, and the grandfather clause)
Urbanization, Immigration and the changing roles of Women:
- explain the reasons for the growth of cities during the Gilded Age
- technological innovation that contributed to the growth of cities.
- changing role/opportunities for women as a result of urbanization
- effects of immigration on urbanization
- effects of Nativism, WASPs, and the American Protective Association
- Old vs. New immigrants (where were they from, why did the come to America, where did the settle, how were the received, ect.)
- "Dumbbell" tenements
- Reasons for the social reform movement and key people (Jacob Riis How the Other Half Live, Jane Adams and the Hull House, Social Gospel Movement, Upton Sinclair and The Jungle, and the Women's Temperance Union WCTU)
- explain the impact of Political Machines, Tammany Hall, and Boss Tweed on urban development.
- Ellis Island and Angel Island
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Fundamentalist v. Modernists and Darwin's theory of Evolution
- New Morality and Comstock Laws
The West:
- Frederick Jackson Turner and the significance of the Frontier in American history
- U.S. government relations with Native Americans (Treaty of Fort Laramie, Sand Creek Massacre, Little Big Horn, and Wounded Knee, Dawes Severalty Act of 1887)
- Native American leaders (Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Geronimo, and Chief Joseph)
- Impact and significance of the mining industry on the growth of the West (Black Hills South Dakota, discovery of silver in Nevada, growth of western cities, and the Comstock Lode)
- Impact of cattle ranching on the West (cowboys, the Long Drive, barbed wire, Joseph Glidden)
- Who were the Boomers and the Sooner
- Explain the importance of the West as a "safety valve" and the effects of its disappearance
Farming and agriculture in the Gilded Age:
- Changes in technology and the mechanization of large scale farming
- Effects of large scale (industrial) farming on traditional farmers
- Reasons for and results of economic problems facing farmers in the West and South
- impact of tariffs on farmers
- Explain why farmers supported bimetalism and a silver standard
- Describe the purpose of organization like The Grange and the Farmers Alliance
- Grange Laws, Munn v. Illinois, Wabash Case
Rise of Populism and the Populist Party:
- Describe the reasons for the rise of the Populist Party and why it was supported by the farmers in the West and South.
- Describe the party platform of the Populist in the Election of 1892 and 1896.
- Explain the cause and effects of the Panic of 1893.
- Coxey's Army
- Election of 1896 William McKinley vs. William Jennings Bryan (positions of the parties, supporters of the parties, outcome, and effects of the election)
- Free Silver and bimetalism
- William Jennings Bryan and the Cross of Gold speech