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APUSH Period 6

Tuesday, 3 May 2022
1-minute read
207 words

Gilded Age

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Social Effects

  • More women more educated

    • As a result, more job opportunities opened for women

Reform

  • Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward

  • Was it possible to have an industrial society without great inequality?

    • Social Darwinists: no

Responses to inequality

  • New economic systems

    • Socialism

      • No private property
      • Eugene V. Debs

    • Single tax

      • Henry George
      • Replace all other taxes with a single tax on the value of land
      • Tax would pay for all necessary government expenditures

Responses to urban problems

  • Settlement house movement
  • Social Gospel movement
  • City Beautiful movement

Politics

Change and Continuity

Work and business

1865
  • Farming, sharecropping
  • Segregation
  • Working in mills
1898
  • Farming and sharecropping
  • Segregation
  • Women's and children's labor
  • Unions
  • Mass production

Living and migration patterns

1865
  • Most immigrants from Northern and Western Europe
  • 20% of Americans lived in cities
  • Some urban density and poverty
1898
  • Most immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe
  • 40% of Americans lived in cities
  • Black migration
  • High urban density and poverty

Culture and ideas

1865
  • Nativism
  • Intense push for racial equality
  • Laissez-faire
1898
  • Nativism
  • Little interest in racial equality
  • Social Darwinism

Review Topics

  • Emergence of monopolies
  • Social Darwinism
  • Reasons for migration to cities
  • New South
  • New Immigration
  • Labor unions
  • The Grange
  • Populists

  • Westward Expansion

    • Impacts on Natives
  • Plessy v Ferguson