- Complete these by Monday, Feb. 25 to be collected. The Essential Questions from Amsco Chapters 15-19 (the questions are NOT in order)
Directions: On separate sheets of paper, answer each question:
- Describe the political corruptions of the Grant administration and the various efforts to clean up politics in the Gilded Age.
- Describe the economic slump of the 1870’s and the growing conflict between “hard” and “soft” money advocates.
- Analyze the Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 and indicate how it avoided major conflict.
- Explain the importance of the Spoils System in Gilded Age politics and how Garfield’s assassination led to the beginning of the Civil Service Act.
- Explain how railroads became the basis for post-Civil War industrial transformation.
- Discuss how the abuses of the railroads led to railroad industry regulation by the government.
- Describe the development of giant trusts and explain how they came to dominate the economy.
- Explain why the South was generally excluded from the industrial development and eventually had to rely on the North for economic stability.
- Describe early labor’s effort to organize through unions.
- Describe the “new immigration” and how it affected American cities and the workplace.
- Explain why “new immigration” aroused so much opposition from nativists.
- Describe the final settlement of the west.
- Discuss the conquest of the Plains Indians in the late 1800’s.
- Explain how western farmers fell into economic turmoil and their response to the problem.
- Describe the Republican Party’s high tariff and high spending policies of the early 1890’s.
- Explain how farmer and labor discontent with the Republican’s high tariff and high spending polices led to Cleveland’s victory and the rise of the Populists.
- Indicate how Cleveland’s tight money policy during the depression of the 1893 led to debtor discontent, labor unrest, and Democratic division.
- Explain the issue of silver vs. gold and the election of 1896.
2. Watch the Foreign Policy video I made and annotate and read Chapter 20.