CRITICAL CONTENT FOR THE GILDED AGE (1870-1900)
 
INDUSTRIALIZATION
aridity
big business
business organizations
changing landscapes
city funding
city government
city policing
commercial agriculture
communication
conservation movement
corporate practices
corruption
crop production
culture change
diversity
division of wealth
ecological damage
entrepreneurs
environmental movement
farm labor
farm organizations
farmers, ranchers & miners
Federal government
financiers
financing
grid iron growth
heavy industry
immigrants
industrialists
industrialization
living standards
local politics
marketing
mechanized farming
 
migration
mining
Native Americans
natural resources
opportunity
political bosses
political machines
pollution
ranching
reformers
regional differences
social classes
The Last Frontier
transportation
urban politics
urbanization
women
IMMIGRATION
anti-Catholicism
anti-Semitism
Asians
Blacks
civil rights
immigrant contributions
ethnic diversity
geographic diversity
Hispanics
linguistic diversity
melting pot
discrimination
opportunity
religious diversity
salad bowl
settlement patterns
Social Darwinism
source countries
 
LABOR MOVEMENT
1896 election
business response
child labor
civil service reform
Depression of 1873-1879
Depression of 1893-1897
employer responses
farm vs. factory work
farmer’s response
fiscal practices
gender issues
government responses economic problems
labor conflicts
Labor’ response
national labor unions
Omaha Platform of 1892
political problems
poor working conditions
Populism
race/gender employment
racial/ethnic issues
reform union
regional opportunities
regulation
Second Industrial Revolution
social problems
tariffs
trade union
 
FEDERAL INDIAN POLICY
 
Westward expansion
Dawes Act, 1887
treatment of Native people
 
Native survival strategies
19th century legacy
U.S. army
missionaries
reformers
AMERICAN IMPERIALISM
Spanish American War
territorial acquisitions
geopolitics
economic interest
racial ideology
missionary zeal
nationalism
domestic issues
Filipino insurrection