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-Land policy
Homestead Act 1862
Morrill Land Grant Act 1862
Timber Culture Act 1873
Desert Land Act 1877
-Grants to railroads
-Precious metals - the lure
Cycles in discovery and settlement
Life in the mining community
-Homesteading
Adapting to isolation and limited resources
Lack of wood and water
Innovations in farm machinery
Family farmers and commercial farming
Run on Oklahoma 1889
-Cattle drives and the open range
Chisholm Trail; Goodnight-Loving Trail
Life on the trail
-Confrontation - Plains Indians Wars (1864-90)
Sand Creek Massacre (Colorado)
Fetterman Massacre (Montana)
Little Big Horn (Montana)
Red River Wars (Texas)
Skeleton Canyon (Arizona)
Nez Perce (Idaho)
Wounded Knee (S. Dakota)
-Restrictions
Near extinction of buffalo
Reservation system
Dawes Act
Indian schools
-Wild women
Calamity Jane
Belle Starr
Annie Oakley
-Outlaws
Billy the Kid
James Gang
-1890 Census: frontier is closed
Frederick Jackson Turner
Frontier Thesis
-A new way of doing business
Effects of nationalized business
Vertical and horizontal integration
Trusts and monopolies
Creation of the Corporate State
-The big industries:
Railroads
Steel
Oil
-The early railroads
Competition
Speculators
Disorganization
Reorganization
J. P. Morgan
-Steel and Andrew Carnegie
Solidifying power in Pittsburgh
Personal wealth
Gospel of Wealth
-Oil and John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
"God gave me my money."
-J. P. Morgan
Finance capitalism
Monopoly
Purchase of Carnegie's steel mills
-Social Darwinism
Herbert Spencer and "survival of the fittest"
-Big business and the Supreme Court
Laissez-faire
Corporations as persons
-Consumerism and new products
Office machines
Telephone
Typewriter
Stock market ticker
Adding machine
Leisure
'Safety' bicycle
Kodak camera
Home improvement
Linoleum floor covering
-Electricity
Battle for control of the business
Thomas Edison
George Westinghouse
J. P. Morgan
-New ways to shop
Chain stores and department stores
Mail order catalogues and Rural Free Delivery of mail
-Critics of Gilded Age excess
Muckraker journalism
Ida Tarbell: History of the Standard Oil Company
Social thinkers
Henry George: Progress and Poverty
Thorstein Veblen: Theory of the Leisure Class
'conspicuous consumption'
-Johnstown Flood, May 1889
-Gilded Age politics
Fluctuation and re-alignment in the two major parties
Garfield's assassination and Civil Service Reform
Tariffs and the politics of protectionism
Sherman Anti-Trust Act
Interstate Commerce Commission
Free silver and gold-bugs
Sherman Silver Purchase Act
Wizard of Oz
-The 'New Woman'
Sex and higher education
Politics
National American Woman's Suffrage Association
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Reaction to the 14th amendment
Success in the Far West
Temperance
Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Frances Willard
Home protection ballot
The race divide
Anti-lynching movement
Ida B. Wells
Cities: promises and disappointments
-Immigrant patterns
-Political machines and bosses
The new city
-Skyscrapers and bridges
-Parks and public libraries
-Chicago and the 1893 Columbian Exposition
Women in the work place
-Clerical
-Retail
-Needle trades
-Domestics
Child labor
-Coal mines
-Factories
Working class entertainment
-Dance halls
-Coney Island
-Baseball
Organized labor
--Efffects of mechanization on the workforce
Formation of the Knights of Labor
-Formation of the American Federation of Labor
-Samuel Gompers
-Labor and politics
-Boycotts and strikes
-Railway strike of 1877
-Haymarket riot of 1886
-Colorado and West Virginia miners
Labor Strikes
-Homestead Strike
-Henry Clay Frick and the Pinkertons
-Cripple Creek Miners
-Pullman Strike
-Eugene V. Debs and American Socialist Party
Farmers Unite
-Farmer's Alliance-- Lampasas County, Texas
-Populist Movement
Elections of 1892 & 1896
-Choosing between the Populist Party and the Democrats
-William Jennings Bryan's 'Cross of Gold' speech
-Democrats: WJ Bryan
-Republicans: William McKinley
-Demise of Populist Party
Depression of 1890s
-'Everybody works but Father.'
-Bond sale to J. P. Morgan
-Coxey's Army -- 1894
American Imperialism
-Arguments for imperialism
-Economic: world trade competition
-Military: U.S. might and the New Navy
-Moral: Social Darwinism and Christian missionaries
-New territories
-Alaska (Seward's Folly)
-Annexation of Hawaii
-Division of Samoa
Spanish-American War
-Cuban theater
-Philippine theater
-Peace treaty
-Cuban independence
-U.S. acquires Puerto Rico, Philippines, Guam
China and the 'Open Door Policy'
-Spheres of influence
-Boxer Rebellion
Arguments against imperialism
-Constitutional
-Economic
-Moral
-Racial
-Historical