The “GILDED” Age popehs“镀金时代” popehs.typepad.pptVIP

1888: Benjamin Harrison Cleveland loses Republican Drains the treasury Sherman anti-trust act 1890: outlawed monopolies, trusts and cartels 1893: Grover Cleveland…again! 1896: William McKinley REPUBLICAN Assassinated by an immigrant The Challenge of the City notes Between 1880-1920, 11million people moved from FARMS to CITIES! Why? WORK!!! Machines have replaced need for manual labor on farms How did cities grow? In population Transportation Skyscrapers and apartments Upper and middle class in suburbs Describe Urban Living Conditions? Small and cramped Disease Ghettos: where one racial group dominates Who was Jacob Riis? Wrote the book, “How the Other Half Lives.” Describes the lower class urban lifestyles and criticizes the middle and upper class affluent way of life Horatio Alger: “Rags to Riches” ??? As cities grew, city government had to become more powerful= The rise of POLITICAL MACHINES: Unofficial organizations that worked to keep a particular person or party in power.(Raise money) Helped city residents find jobs and other favors. KEY= In exchange, residents voted for the machines candidate in elections. Is this corrupt? BOSS TWEED and Tammany Hall Abolished slavery Made them a US citizen Gave them the right to vote! Restricted overall rights, used violence and intimidation to do so (Designed to regulate the affairs of freedman). Test you must take and pass to vote. Most were not educated enough to pass Blacks moved around more than whites Can rarely afford the tax to vote “whites man club,” no blacks can vote in the primary=only White Democrat candidates Can vote only if your grandfather could vote! Made segregation in public facilities legal as long as they were equal! Plessy made the segregation laws (Jim Crow laws) LEGAL! Full suffrage not really granted until 1965!!!!!!!!!!!!! Curfews, work regulations, restrictions placed on blacks in the south “Separate but equal” Segregation laws Abolished Slavery Defines citizenship Voting Rights! Although th