Independent Study Module C [1865-1900]
From Bloody Shirt to Full Dinner Pail: Politics in the Gilded Age [1876 to 1896]
In the wake of civil war, American politics were racially charged and intensely sectionalist, but by the close of the century a burgeoning industrial development shifts the political agenda to pocketbook concerns—the tariff, monetary policy, business regulation.
NOTES on PAGE #3 Party Politics in the Gilded Age
NOTES on PAGE #4 and #5 Issues in Congress during the Gilded Age
The story of interests and concerns percolating to the surface
Compete Notes on Page #6 Raise Less Corn and More Hell - The Rise of Populism
focusing on "Problems Facing American Farmers" in the right column of page #6
REVIEW NOTES on PAGE #7 "The Farmers Unite" focusing on key Court victories Munn and Wabash
Complete Notes: Highlights of The Omaha Platform in the right column on page #9