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UNIT SIX
The Gilded Age
EXPLORING CONTEXT
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1869
Transcontinental Railroad is finished, connecting the eastern and western halves of the United States.
1875
After meeting Henry Bessemer, Andrew Carnegie opened his first steel mill in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1882
The United States passed the Chinese Exclusion Act, suspending all Chinese immigration for ten years, and declared Chinese immigrants ineligible for citizenship. The Act was extended in 1892 and again in 1902.
1889
Thomas Edison companies, with companies for lightbulbs, batteries and more, merged to form Edison General Electric.
1890
Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act outlawing trusts, monopolies and activities that interfered with trade and competition in the marketplace.
1892
Carnegie steel workers participate in an industrial lockout as a result of wage cuts. The resulting violent clash between the Pinkertons and the labor activists represented a loss for unionization.
1896
The U.S. Supreme Court in Plessy v. Ferguson set the concept of “separate but equal” into law, laying the groundwork for Jim Crow to spread throughout (mainly) the South.
- Gilded Age
- Life in 1860s vs. Life in 1900s
- Factors of Production
- Laissez-Faire
- Vertical and Horizontal Integration
- J.D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil
- Andrew Carnegie and the Bessemer Process
- Gould and Vanderbilt and Railroads
- Labor Movements: Major Strikes
- Eugene Debs
- Captains of Industry vs. Robber Barons
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act
- Social Darwinism
- Angel Island and Ellis Island
- Push-Pull Factors of Immigration
- Nativism
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Political Cartoons of the Gilded Age: Thomas Nast
- Tenements
- Jacob Riis
- Jim Crow Laws
- Lynching
- Ida B.Wells
- Booker T. Washington
- W.E.B. DuBois
- Progressives
- Muckrakers
- Ida Tarbell
- Upton Sinclair and The Jungle
- Lincoln Steffens
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factor Fire
- Jacob Riis
- Progressive Amendments: 16th, 17th, 19th
- Political Reforms: Direct Primary, Initiative, Referendum
- Suffrage Movement
- Roosevelt and Taft as Progressive Presidents
- Populists
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