Guided Age

Social Issues

• Jane Addams and settlement houses

• Beginning of the Progressive Era

• Social Gospel (Different from GoW)

• Temperance

• Jacob Riis and the muckrakers

Populism

• Currency Issues  (16:1)

• Farmer Protection against Banks and Big business

• William Jennings Bryan  (1896 candidate)

  • Cross of Gold Speech

Corruption of the Gilded Age

• Political machine =

 a party organization, headed by a single boss or small autocratic group, that commands enough votes to maintain political and administrative control of a city, county, or state.

Patronage

• Conkling and the Stalwarts
• Blaine and the Halfbreeds
• Mugwump = anyone who doesn’t participate

Weak Presidents

• Hayes vs Tilden in the election of  1876 (1824)
• Compromise of 1877
• Strong Republican

support in the south 

• “Lemonade Lucy” 
• Vetoes C.E.A.  

Accomplishments

• Garfield = none
• Arthur = Pendleton Civil Service Act 
• Cleveland (84 and 92)
  • Panic of 93
  • Coxey’s Army
• Harrison in 1888 
  • Billion Dollar Congress
  • Pensions
  • Sherman Silver Purchase Act

McKinley

• A New Era

• Imperialism

• Teddy

• Assassination

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