Kayla Duncan Ms. Phairr APUSH- 1st period 12/16/13 Timeline Unit V: 1865-1900 1. 1865- The Gilded Age was a time of both technological advances as well as extreme poverty. It started the age of building railroads utilizing transportation that connecting the East and the West. 2. 1866- The Civil Act of 1866 was presented by President Johnson in order to make all men equal and get away from the idea of white supremacy. It encouraged no discrimination against those from another race or previous servitude. 3. 1867- Oakes Ames and Thomas Durant created a fake construction company and promised to complete the transcontinental railway of 600 miles. This was known as the Credit Mobilier Scandal because the government lost lots of money. 4. 1867- When railroads began to raise their prices for farmers to transport their goods farmers known suggested the Granger Laws. This angered the large companies because they would lose profit. 5. 1867- William Seward purchased Alaska from Russia for seven million dollars. This was known as Seward’s Folly. 6. 1870- The establishment of Social Darwinism came from the idea of a man named Charles Darwin. He coined the phrase “survival of the fittest” suggest that the rich will get richer and the poor will get poorer and anyone can change their fate. 7. 1873- The Crime of ’73 devalued silver and made gold the primary metal in the United States. It sort of became an unpublished law that most abided by. 8. 1874- The Chautauqua movement was encouraged by Theodore Roosevelt in order to professional educate adults. Out of the movement came the Chautauqua Institute. 9. 1876- The Battle of Little Big Horn (Custer’s Last Stand) was a battle fought with the Sioux and the Cheyenne Indian tribes against Colonel George... ... middle of paper ... ...mers. 31. 1896- In the case of Plessy vs. Ferguson Plessy a creole bought a ticket to ride first class despite the separate car law. He argued that they were in violation of the thirteenth and fourteenth amendment. 32. 1898- The Spanish- American War began when America tried to help Cuba win their independence from Spain. Cuba had already begun revolts against Spain. 33. 1898- The Teller Amendment gave the current status to American soldiers after the war and allowed the presence of the U.S. military while allowing them to rule their own country. 34. 1900- In China around this time a group of Chinese against the Qing dynasty known as the Boxers had an uprising known as the Boxer’s Rebellion. 35. 1903- The Platt amendment denied the annexation of Cuba. This amendment was made after the Spanish- American War and established the relationship between Cuba and America.
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United States of America. U.S. Department of State. Office of the Historian. The Spanish-American War, 1898. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Feb. 2014.
The date that the 13th Ammendement (prohibits slavery and involuntary servitude) was adopted. It was subsequently declared on the 19th of December 1865
In 1903, the U.S. published the Platt Amendment, which was a set of guidelines for Cuba to follow (Blight 165). The Platt amendment was named after Senator Orville Platt of Connecticut. The U.S. had been occupying Cuba since the Spanish American war in 1898, and Cuba wanted them out, so the U.S. set up eight rules for Cuba to agree to before the U.S. would leave them alone to establish and run their government (http://www.state.gov/r/pa/). The first three articles of the Platt Amendment can be seen after this paper. Americans and Cubans seemed to have a different approach to the Platt Amendment:
The Gilded Age was a time in American history that came to be known as a major turning point for the country, as it marked the decline of an economy based on agriculture, and brought forth the rise of an economy based on business and industry. Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, it was a great time for change, especially for the economy. The economy improved, and at the same time, it granted more opportunities for inventors and businessmen to come out and share their talent with the the world. As America began to industrialize and make new advancements in technology, it also began to encourage the growth of the middle class and promoted the importance of social mobility and competition between businesses. The Gilded Age was a time when
The Battle of Little Bighorn, 1876. EyeWitness To History. 1997. Web. 20 Apr. 2011. .
The Gilded age and the Progressive Era are time periods that played an important role in the development of the American society. The Gilded Age is a period of American history between 1870 and 1900. This term was coined by Mark Twain in the late 1800s. By this, he meant that this period was glittering on the surface but corrupt underneath ("Learn About the Gilded Age"). The Gilded Age is well known for its political scandals and extravagant displays of wealth. At the same time, this was an era of major achievements in the industry and economy, which significantly changed life of American people. The Gilded Age was followed by the Progressive Era which lasted from the 1890s to the 1920s. Progressive Era is well known for its economical, political, social reforms and technological inventions. In my opinion, The Gilded Age had a more significant impact upon the United States than the Progressive Era because it gave rise to new industries, created transportation and communication networks which provided the infrastructure for further development of technology in the Progressive Era.
In 1920 congress began what was called "The Noble Experiment". This experiment began with the signing of the eighteenth amendment of the constitution into law. It was titled by society as Prohibition. Websters dictionary defines prohibition as: A prohibiting, the forbidding by law of the manufacture or sale of alcoholic liquors. Prohibition can extend to mean the foreboding of any number of substances. I define it as a social injustice to the human race as we know it.
The Gilded Age was the last three decades of the nineteenth century, when America’s industrial economy exploded generating opportunities for individuals but also left many workers struggling for survival. With the many immigrants, skilled and unskilled, coming to America the labor system is becoming flooded with new employees. During this period, the immigrants, including the Italians, were unskilled and the skilled workers were usually American-born. There was also a divide in the workers and the robber barons. Robber barons were American capitalist who acquired great fortunes in the last nineteenth century, usually ruthlessly. There was much turmoil throughout the business and labor community. Two major organizations, the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor, helped represent the workers in this time of chaos. The Knights of Labor, founded in 1869, were representing both skilled and unskilled workers. They were quite popular with a large boost in membership becoming the biggest union in 1885. They sought for equal pay and equal work. All were welcomed to the Knights of Labor; there was no discrimination on race, gender, or sex. They called for an eight-hour day in order to reduce fatigue and for safety issues. The Knights of Labor Declaration of Principles states their purpose is to “make industrial and moral worth, not wealth” (Reading 9, p. 1). This means the moral worth is to what they could contribute to society rather than monetary gains. They were working towards this improvement of the common mans life to advance in civilization and create new ideas for society. They also called upon the employer to treat the employee with respect and fairness so they can contribute to not only their company but to Amer...
The Gilded Age gets its name from a book by Mark Twain called The Gilded Age: a Tale of Today. It was written in 1873, and unfortunately was not that successful. While the Gilded Age conjures up visions of ostentatious displays of wealth and decorative parties, the over all topic was politics. The book gives an extremely negative assessment of the state of American democracy at that time. Which does not come as a huge surprise coming from Twain, who famously said "It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.” So when faced with sweeping changes in the American economy after the Civil War, the American political system both nationally and locally dealt with these problems in the best way possible, by inevitably and incredibly becoming corrupt.
Expansive growth was the moniker which expressly defined the Gilded Age. Industry in all sectors, witnessed massive growth leading to the creation of an American economy. Due to the rapidly changing nature of industrialization important men of both the public and private sectors attempted to institute their own controls over it. However this transforming landscape integrated both economic and political changes, but also cultural and social interactions. In turn, those who controlled the flow of business would also steadily impact the American social scene by extension. Alan Trachtenberg, professor of American studies at Yale and author of The Incorporation of America, argues that the system of incorporation unhinged the idea of national identity that all American’s had previously shared. As a result incorporation became the catalyst for the great debate about what it meant to actually be American, and who was capable of labeling themselves as such. Throughout his work Trachtenberg consistently tackles the ideas of cultural identity and how those ideas struggled against one another to be the supreme definition of Americanism. This work not only brings to life the issue of identity but it attempts to synthesize various scholarly works into a cohesive work on the Gilded Age and demonstrates that concepts developed during the incorporation of the time period have formed the basis for the American cultural, economic, and political superstructure. The Incorporation of America sets a high standard for itself one in which it doesn’t necessarily meet; however the work is still expansive and masterful at describing the arguments of the Gilded Age.
From the period between the 1870’s through the 1890’s, it became an era known as the Gilded Age. The term was characterized by a famous American Literature author named Mark Twain. The writer tried to point out that the term means that while on the outside society may seem perfect and in order, underneath there is poverty, crime, corruption, and many other issues between American society’s rich and poor. This era’s gild is thicker than the cheaper material it’s covering. This can be shown through the countless numbers of achievements and advances America has made during the period of reconstruction and expansion, industrialization, and foreign affairs.
Despite many attempts to ban, the Anti-Saloon League was the first to introduce the Eighteenth Amendment and the Volstead Act. According to Burns and Novick, the Prohibition experiment was not the product of a sudden, naïve push for a ban on alcohol in the 1920s, but was rooted in a much longer debate over alcohol and social behavior extending back to the early nineteenth century (2).
The Gilded Age contained rapid social and political transformations in the U.S. With large companies helping foster the growing economy which was at its prime, there was a veneer of crippling poverty along with the implosive number of immigrants. Reform back in the Progressive Era was hard but gradual. The Progressive Era is the age in America's history in which there were social and political reforms to bandage the wounds of the Gilded Age. The prominent division between the middle/upper class and the lower class were shaped through Victorian morality and wealth gap. To fix this issue, many took
After reading, multiple documents on topic such as “Populism” “Strikes” and “Chinese Exclusion Act“ it is lucid that the Gilded Age was an era where it could be said “ All that glitters is not gold.” The Gilded Age was an era in the late 19th century, also a time in which America’s farming society transitioned to an urban society, which then industrialized industries took over. “Autobiography of a Chinese Immigrant” by L. Chew and “Emma Goldman Autobiography” by Goldman all explain the idea and development behind the Gilded Age.Basically, during the Gilded Age, is when America began make changes economically and transitioned America into an “economic powerhouse.” The quote, “all that glitters is not gold” could easily be used to describe the