LEQ: How were the civil and political rights of certain groups in
America undermined during the years after Reconstruction?
Segregation and Discrimination
LEARNING GOALS
• Assess how whites created a segregated society in
the South and how African Americans responded.
• Analyze efforts to limit immigration.
• Compare the situations of Mexican Americans and
of women to those of other groups.
Congress resolved the disputed election of 1876 with the Compromise of
1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes became President on the condition that
he would remove federal troops from the South.
Section 1: Segregation
and Social Tensions

African Americans Lose
Freedoms
a. Jim Crow Laws
i. Opposition: segregation
would create a burden
ii. Plessy v. Ferguson
(1896)
b. Southern restriction on
blacks’ rights:
i. Poll Taxes, Literacy
tests, grandfather
clauses, violence

African Americans Oppose
Injustices
a. Booker T. Washington
b. W.E.B. Dubois
c. Ida B. Wells
Voter Suppression
 The many strategies
used to keep African
American voters away
from the polls were
very effective.
Plessy v Ferguson (1896)
“Separate but equal”
Problem: Black facilities never equal to White facilities
Example:
South Carolina spent $14 for every white student to
$3 for every African American student
Who Opposed Jim Crow
•
W.E.B. Du Bois
Booker T. Washington
•Don’t
confront Jim
•Demand rights now
Crow
•Get full equality
•Assimilate &
become selfsufficient
•Formal Education
•Vocational schools
“Pull yourself up by your bootstraps”
Founder of NAACP
Who Opposed Jim Crow 2
Ida B. Wells
•Ran a newspaper: “Free
Speech”
•Condemned Lynching
•Exiled
•Women’s clubs
Section 1: Segregation and Social Tensions

Chinese Immigrants Face
Discrimination
a. “Oriental” Schools
b. Saum Song Bo—champion of civil
rights for Chinese
c. Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)

Mexican Americans Struggle in the
West
a. Land disputes (legal contracts differ)
b. “Sante Fe Ring”
c. Las Gorras Blancas: MexicanAmericans, protect those who can’t
protect themselves, publish issues in
newspaper

Women Make Gains and Suffer
Setbacks
a. Susan B. Anthony
i. 1872: arrested for voting
b. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
c. Frances Willard: Women’s Christian
Temperance Movement
Table of Contents
Ch. 9
Chapter
Title
Assignment
Date
9
Issues of the Gilded
Age
Notes
10/31
Vocab
10/31
Bell Ringer: Plessy v.
Ferguson
10/31
Populist
v. Progressive
Table of Contents
Ch. 9
Chapter
Title
Assignment
Date
9
Issues of the Gilded
Age
Notes
10/31
Vocab
10/31
Bell Ringer: Plessy v.
Ferguson
10/31
Venn Diagram:
Populist v. Progressive
11/01
Bell Ringer:
Washington & DuBois
11/02
LEQ: Why did the political structure change during the
Gilded Age?
Gilded Age Economics and Politics
Learning Goals
• Analyze how corruption affected national
politics in the 1870s and 1880s.
• Discuss civil service reform during the 1870s
and 1880s.
• Assess the importance of economic issues
in the politics of the Gilded Age.
Section 2: Political and Economic Challenges

Balance of Power Creates a
Stalemate
a. Difficulty passing new laws due
to which party controlled the
house
b. Presidents during this era:
Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur,
Cleveland, Harrison, Cleveland,
McKinley, Roosevelt, Taft.

Corruption Plagues National
Politics
a. Joseph Keppler: Big Bosses of
the Senate
b. Thomas Nast
c. Spoils system causes ruckus
d. Civil Service
e. Assassinations
f. Pendleton Civil Service Act1883
Presidents of the Gilded Age were particularly weak.
Rutherford B. Hayes
James Garfield
Benjamin
Harrison
Chester A. Arthur
In an era known for its
corruption, Grover Cleveland
maintained a reputation for
integrity.
Cleveland’s reputation for
honesty was the exception
during this age of corruption.
Grover Cleveland
Caption says:
“Who Stole the People’s Money? -- Do Tell. ‘TWAS HIM.”
Thomas Nast, also drew the very effective: "Who Stole the People's Money?" in
which each character points to the man on his right forming a circle of liars.
In 1883, President Arthur signed into law the
Pendleton Civil Service Act, which established a
merit-based system for government employment.
Section 2: Political and Economic Challenges

Economic Issues
Challenge the Nation
a. Gold Standard
b. Gilded Age
troubles: debates
on tariffs
c. Greenbacks were
retired after the
Civil War
d. Coinage Act of
1873: Gold v. Silver
e. Who took which
side?
i. Bankers and
international
traders favored?
ii.Farmers favored?
Economic debates focused on tariffs and
monetary policy during the Gilded Age.
Republicans favored tariffs on imported goods. Tariffs
supported American industry, but Democrats claimed that
they increased consumer prices and made it harder for
farmers to sell their products abroad.
Economic debates focused on tariffs and
monetary policy during the Gilded Age.
Monetary policy disputes centered on whether or
not to maintain the gold standard, where gold is the
sole basis of the nation’s currency.
Table of Contents
Ch. 9
Chapter
Title
Assignment
Date
9
Issues of the Gilded
Age
Notes
10/31
Vocab
10/31
Bell Ringer: Plessy v.
Ferguson
10/31
Venn Diagram:
Populist v. Progressive
11/01
Bell Ringer:
Washington & DuBois
11/02
Picture Analysis
11/03
1. Who is represented in
2. What is happening?
the wagon?
3. Who does the donkey represent?
4. What issue is being portrayed?
Learning Goals
• Analyze the problems farmers faced and the groups
they formed to address them.
• Assess the goals of the Populists, and explain why
the Populist Party did not last.
Section 3: Farmers and Populism

Farmers Face Many
Problems
a. Money issues: the more
farmers produced, the
higher their debt got
b. Blamed: RR, banks, &
big businesses,
dishonest merchants
c. Drought

Farmers Organize and Seek
Change
a. Oliver H. Kelley: Grange
(est. 1867)
i. Regulation of RR,
education, etc.
b. Farmers’ Alliance-still
going strong
Section 3: Farmers and
Populism

Populist Party Demands Reforms
a. Aka: People’s Party (1892)
b. Goals: “free silver”, gov’t. should
own RR, women’s suffrage,
c. Enemy = industrial elite
d. Successes:
i. Governors and congressmen
were elected, etc.

Economic Crisis and Populism’s
Decline
a. Election of 1896:
b. William Jennings Bryan
i. Cross of Gold speech
ii.1st to tour nation

Populism’s Legacy
a. Reforms advocated became
reality
b. Campaign to the people
The debate over
monetary policy
was an important
issue of the day.
Those who
wanted only a
gold standard
were on one side.
Those who wanted to
use silver and gold—
including the Populist Party—
were on the other.
McKinley won against
Bryan in 1896 and in
1900.
Why could the election
results be considered a
victory of industry
over agriculture?
Bryan’s emphasis on
money reform wasn’t
popular with urban
workers.
In your groups…
1. Make
a list of 4 issues that were highlighted
during the Gilded Age
a. Use full and complete sentences to explain
why they were issues,
b. Give at least 1 specific example.
2.
Find 1 picture that represents each issue
(total of 4 pictures)
EOC Textbook

Determine whether the issues presented in Chapters
6-7 are Social, Political, or Economic issues (some
may fall into more than one category)

Make sure to use details to explain why they fall into
the category you assigned them to

When you are done wait patiently/quietly for further
instructions
Issues of the Gilded Age
Economic
Social
• Urbanization:
• Urbanization:
• Who is going
Discrimination
to pay for
and poverty
housing?
• Poor sanitation
• Families don’t
leads to the
make enough
spread of disease
money
through
• Traffic
contaminated
congestions
water
• How would
cities pay for
renovating
roads?
• Political
machines
overcharged for
labor
Political
• Who would
address the poor
sanitation? Would
the government
intervene?
• Corruption was
widespread
• Political
machines: vote
for me, or else…
Pictures and Problems…

With your group, take the pictures you have
and categorize them into one of the following
categories:
a. Political
b. Social
c. Economic

When you are done, adhere them on the back
of the construction paper you just wrote on

Decide on a title to describe these pictures.
Title