Period 7 Gilded Age Review (Timely and on time)
- Know the scandals associated with Grant’s administration. Credit Mobilier, Whiskey Ring, Indian Ring and Fisk and Gould’s Gold Cornering scandal.
- Tweed Ring?
- What brought down Boss Tweed?
- Why did Liberal Republicans support Horace Greeley?
- Depression of 1873?
- Crime of ’73? Grant’s monetary policy’s effect on the money supply? How did this affect the economy?
- Greenback Labor Party
- Politics of Identity?
- Hayes-Tilden Election
- How did the Compromise of 1877 affect Reconstruction?
- How did the Halfbreeds and Stalwarts affect Republican candidates?
- How did the Supreme Court affect the Civil Rights of African Americans in 1883 and 1896?
- How and what did Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois differ?
- Plessy v. Fergusson
- Great Railroad Strikes of 1877? Issues, results?
- Dennis Kearney
- Chinese Exclusionary Act
- Why was Garfield assassinated? What legislation came from this?
- How did the tariff issue affect the election of 1888?
- How successful was the Populist attempt to appeal to southern farmers (both Black and white) in 1892?
- Homestead Strike?
- Depression of 1893?
- Pullman Strike?
- McKinley Tariff?
- Sherman Silver Purchase Act
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Coxey’s Army? How did Cleveland respond?
- Why did Cleveland repeal the Sherman Silver Purchase Act?
- How did JP Morgan save the Gold Reserves?
- Why did farmers seek inflation? How did they seek it?
- Omaha Platform?
- Grange
- Farmers Alliance Movement
- Election of 1896? Why did McKinley win?
- Gold Standard Act
- Treaties of Fort Laramie and Atkinson
- Sand Creek Massacre
- William J. Fetterman
- Battle of Little Bighorn
- Battle of Wounded Knee
- Changing US policy towards Indians
- Dawes Severalty Act
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Crazy Horse
- Sitting Bull
- Red Cloud
- Quannah Parker
- Long Drive
- John Wesley Powell
- Frederick Jackson Turner’s Frontier Thesis
- Transcontinental Railroad
- Cornelius Vanderbilt
- Leland Stanford
- James J Hill
- Munn v Illinois
- Wabash Decision
- Thomas A Edison
- Alexander Graham Bell
- George Westinghouse
- Andrew Carnegie
- John D Rockefeller
- Horizontal Integration
- Vertical Integration
- Interlocking Directorates
- Standard Oil
- Gospel of Wealth
- Social Darwinists
- EC Knight v Harriman
- Tactics used against unions
- Knights of Labor v American Federation of Labor
- What led to the downfall of the Knights of Labor?
- Tactics used by Unions
- New Immigrants
- Jane Addams
- Social Gospel
- Victoria Woodhull
- Anthony Comstock
- Ida B Wells Barnett
- Susan B Anthony
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Horatio Alger