What to study?

What caused agrarian dissent and distress!?!

William Jennings Bryan and the Populist movement!!
Who supported?

Why did the Populist (farmers protest) movement fail?!

Immigration trends
Federal govt.s role in the late 19th century
Sherman Anti-Trust Act definition and effects!!!
What is the Gilded Age? What is it characterized by?
City demographics
What characterized the American labor movement?
New vs. Old Immigrants characteristics
How did cities improve and decrease death rate?
Labor organizations Knights of Labor, American Federation
of Labor, and Industrial Workers of the World
Dawes Act

What to study?

How did the fed. govt. make money? (revenue)

Pullman Strike
Booker T. Washington
What characterized agriculture in the late 19 th century?
(increase land being cultivated)
Why did open-range cattle ranching decline?
How did railroad expansion happen? What were its effects?
Who did Supreme Court decisions in the Gilded Age favor?
Plessy vs. Ferguson
Voting breakdowns in the Gilded Age by race/geography
Taylorism
Gospel of Wealth, Social Darwinism, laissez-faire, Social
Gospel
Horizontal vs. vertical integration

What to study?

Ghost Dance
Century of Dishonor
How the Other Half Lives
Frederick Jackson Taylor The
Significance of the Frontier in American
History
Nativist opposition
Chinese Exclusion Act
Jane Adams
Homestead Act