Study Guide - Unit Eight: The Gilded Age
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Due Date |
Assignment |
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Tues., Jan. 17 |
1.
Read p. 438 – 443 2.
Read the excerpt from Josiah Strong’s Our Country. 3.
Answer questions 1 – 3 |
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Weds., Jan. 18 |
1.
Read p. 446 – 451 2.
Read the handouts from Jacob Riis and Jane Addams 3.
Answer questions 4 - 6 |
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Thurs., Jan. 19 |
1.
Read p. 462 – 477 2.
Answer questions 1 – 5 from Chapter 16 |
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Mon., Jan. 23 |
1.
Read p. 452 – 457 2.
Answer questions 7 - 11 from Chapter 15 |
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Tues., Jan. 24 |
1.
Read p. 478-485 2.
Answer questions 6 – 8 from Chapter 16 |
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Weds., Jan. 25 |
Review
for Test |
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Thurs.,
Jan. 26 |
Test |
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Fri.,
Jan. 27 |
Outline Due |
Reminder: The Outline for your Paper is Due on Friday, January 27.
It is a Test Grade
Identifications – Chapter 15
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1. |
Ellis
Island |
11. |
Jacob Riis |
21. |
Half-Breeds |
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2. |
Angel
Island |
12. |
Political machines |
22. |
Roscoe Conkling |
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3. |
Melting
Pot |
13. |
Graft |
23. |
Rutherford
B. Hayes |
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4. |
Chinese
Exclusion Act |
14. |
Tammany Hall |
24. |
James
Garfield |
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5. |
Gentleman’s
Agreement |
15. |
Tweed Ring |
25. |
Chester Arthur |
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6. |
Nativism
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16. |
Patronage |
26. |
Grover Cleveland |
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7. |
Josiah Strong, Our Country |
17. |
Civil Service |
27. |
Benjamin Harrison |
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8. |
Urbanization
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18. |
Spoils System and Merit
System |
28. |
Pendleton Act |
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9. |
Social Gospel Movement |
19. |
Stalwarts |
29. |
Tariff |
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10. |
Jane Addams |
20. |
Mugwumps |
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Reading Questions – Chapter 15
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1. |
Make a chart showing the
national origin of immigrants and the reasons they immigrated to the U.S. |
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2. |
List the difficulties that
immigrants faced when they arrived here. |
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3. |
Read the excerpt from Josiah Strong’s Our
Country and make a list of arguments that he makes against immigration. |
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4. |
Why were groups such as
immigrants, farmers and blacks drawn to cities in the Northeast and Midwest? |
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5. |
Make a chart listing
problems that people faced in the cities and what was done in response to
each problem. |
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6. |
Summarize what the Jacob Riis and Jane Addams’ passages tell you about urban
conditions among the poor. |
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7. |
Describe how political
machines work. What did the bosses do
to maintain power and what was the role of immigrants in the political
machine. |
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8. |
What
were the advantages and disadvantages of political machines? |
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9. |
What government problems
arose as a result of the spoils system? |
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10. |
What were the consequences
of the Pendleton Act? |
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11. |
Summarize the positions of
the Gilded Age politicians on civil service reform and the tariff. |
Identifications – Chapter 16
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1. |
Louis
Sullivan |
12. |
Realism |
23. |
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
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2. |
Frank
Lloyd Wright |
13. |
Mark Twain |
24. |
Jim Crow |
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3. |
Frederick
Law Olmstead |
14. |
Dime novels |
25. |
Plessy v. Ferguson |
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4. |
The
Wright Brothers |
15. |
Theodore Dreiser |
26. |
Coney Island |
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5. |
George
Eastman |
16. |
Willa Cather |
27. |
Vaudeville |
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6. |
W.E.B. Du Bois
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17. |
Stephen Crane |
28. |
Barnum
& Bailey Circus |
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7. |
Talented Tenth
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18. |
Jack London |
29. |
Ragtime |
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8. |
Booker T.
Washington
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19. |
Ida B. Wells |
30. |
D.W. Griffiths |
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9. |
Tuskegee Institute |
20. |
Literacy Tests |
31. |
Birth of a Nation |
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10. |
Thomas Eakins |
21. |
Poll Tax |
32. |
Joseph Pulitzer |
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11. |
Ashcan School |
22. |
Grandfather Clause |
33. |
William Randolph Hearst |
Reading Questions – Chapter 16
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1. |
Make
a chart of technological changes and indicate what other inventions helped
make each one possible and how the new technologies affected Americans’
lives. |
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2. |
List major developments in
education from the elementary, high school, college level and education for
blacks and immigrant adults. Note the
results that took place due to each change. |
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3. |
What were the trends in art and literature during
this period? |
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4. |
In what ways was racial
discrimination supported by federal government actions and policies in this
period? |
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5. |
How did Mexicans and
Chinese suffer from discrimination in this period? |
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6. |
Why
did a mass culture develop in the United States in the late 19th
century? |
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7. |
Make
a list of the leisure activities that flourished at the turn of the century
and the people who invented or popularized it. |
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8. |
What developments helped
to create a mass culture in this period? |
Themes - The Gilded Age
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The characteristics of American politics at the
national and state levels during the Gilded Age
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How city bosses maintained their control of politics
in this period
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The reasons for splits in the Republican Party in
this period and the rise of third parties in the 1870s and 1880s and how these
factions and third parties fared in American politics
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The oppression of southern blacks in this period and
the different responses from Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois
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Factors influencing the increasing urbanization in
the Gilded Age and the effect on American society of this growth in cities
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The conditions for immigrants as they arrived in
America and how Americans reacted to the increasing numbers of immigrants
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How America developed a mass culture through its
art, literature, entertainment, advertising, and marketing