Major Themes:

• Political Alignment and the Corruption of the Gilded Age
• The Role of Government in a changing economy
• Social, economic and political impacts of industrialization
• The winning of the West
• The rise of labor unions, Immigration and urbanization
• Inflation and deflation

Chapter 23 Political Paralysis in the Guilded Age The Gilded Age Overview Lecture Notes on Ch 23 Ch 23 Terms Ch 23 Study Guide Mark Twain on the Gilded Age The Populists The Populist Party Platform Blacks in Politics after Reconstruction Political Cartoon McKinley & High Tariffs Tariffs- 1815-1890 Election of 1880 Silver vs. Gold Standard Political Cartoon Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast Politics in the Gilded Age PowerPoint

Chapter 24 Industry Comes of Age Lectures Notes on Ch 24 Ch 24 Study Guide F.J. Turner & The Gospel of Wealth Strike of 1877 Grange Movement & Corruption Political Cartoon Railroad Operation 1850-1860 Industrialization PowerPoint

Chapter 25 America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 Lectures Notes on Ch 25 Ch 25 Study Guide Ch 25 Key Terms Sanitary Conditons in New York City W.E.B. DuBois American Women's Home Examination Consumerism Chinese in San Francisco

Chapter 26 The Great West & the Agricultural Revolution Lecture Notes on Ch 26 Ch 26 Key Terms NO KEY TERMS FOR CH 26 Frederick Jackson Turner & the Frontier Thesis The Significance of the Frontier in American History Myths about the West Native Americans Whitman Salutes the Indo-Hispanic Conrtibution to America Frontier & Subduing the Native American POWERPOINT

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