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Exploring the Gilded Age: Settlement, Industry, Expansion, and Progressive Reforms in America

This review covers the transformative era of the Gilded Age in U.S. history, focusing on how acts like the Homestead and Pacific Railway Act encouraged westward settlement. It examines the rise of powerful corporations such as Carnegie and Rockefeller, the implications of Social Darwinism, and notable labor movements like the Pullman Strike. The era's political landscape, including populist goals and the impact of political machines, is analyzed. Additionally, it discusses the expansion through events like the Spanish-American War and the Progressive Era reforms aimed at improving societal conditions.

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Exploring the Gilded Age: Settlement, Industry, Expansion, and Progressive Reforms in America

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  1. U.S. 2 AP Review

  2. American West • Homestead and Pacific Railway Act encourage Western settlement. How?

  3. The Gilded Age • Corporations, trusts, monopolies. • Carnegie, Rockefeller, Swift, Vanderbilt. • What industries? • Social Darwinism, Gospel of Wealth. • Labor vs management – Pullman Strike, Haymarket Affair

  4. The Gilded Age • Populist goals: Railroad regulation, free silver, income tax. • From the Grange Movement • Politics – Stalemate, patronage, Congress powerful. • Political Machines – Tammany Hall. • Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois • How were they different?

  5. Age of Expansion • Surplus goods. • Annexation of Hawaii • The Spanish American War • Philippines, Cuba, Puerto Rico– Platt Amendment. • Panama Canal • Latin America – Roosevelt Corollary, dollar diplomacy, gunboat diplomacy.

  6. Progressive Era • Government to take an active role in improving society. • Breaking up monopolies: What laws? • Safe working conditions/shorter hours/higher wages. • Regulation of child labor. • Direct election of senators. • Income tax. • Meat Inspection Act/Pure Food and Drug Act

  7. World War I • MAIN causes? Describe each. • U.S. Involvement: • Unrestricted submarine warfare – Lusitania • Sussex Pledge • Economics • The Note? • How did the Treaty of Versailles cause future problems? • League of Nations failure? Poor Wilson…

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