Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Period 6 1865-1898
Period 6 1865-1898
KC 6.1.1 - Large-scale industrial production (accompanied by massive tech change, expanding international comm networks and pro growth gov policies) generated rapid eco development and business consolidation
Many business leaders sought higher profit by consolidating corp. into large trusts and holding co., concentrated wealth
Businesses and foreign policymakers looked outside US borders to gain greater influence and control over markets and natural resources in Pacific Rim, Asia, and Latin America
price of goods decreased, works wages increased = providing new access to a variety of goods and services; many Americans standards of living improved, while the gap between rich and poor grew
After the CW, goc subsidies for transportation and comm systems helped open new markets in N America
Businesses made use of tech innovations, greater access to natural resources, redisigned financial and management structures, advances in marketing, and a growing labor force to increase production of goods
KC 6.2.1 - International and internal migration increased urban populations and fostered the growth of new urban culture
In urban atmosphere where access to power was unequally distributed, pol machines thrived, in part by providing immigrants and the poor w social services
Corp. need for managers and both male and female clerical workers and increased access to educational institutions = growth of middle class (more leisure time helped expand consumer culture
Increasing public debates over assimilation and Americanization + growth of international migration = many immigrants negotiated compromises between cultures they brought and the American one
Urban neighborhoods based on particular ethnicities, races, and classes provided new cultural opportunities for city ppl
Cities became places of eco growth (factories and businesses) they attracted immigrants from Asia and S+E EU, and AA from S. Many moved to escape poverty, religious persecution, and limited opportunities for social mobility in their home area
KC 6.2.2 - Larger # of migrants moved to the W is search of land and eco opportunity, frequently provoking competition and violent conflict
In hope of achieving ideals of self-sufficiency and independence, migrants moved to both rural and boomtown areas in W for opportunity (building RR, mining, farming, ranching)
Migrant pop increased and Bison pop decreased. competition for land and resources between White and NA and Mex-Am = increase in violent conflict
US gov violated treaties w NA and responded to resistance w military force, eventually confining the NA to reservations and denying tribal sovereignty
Many NA preserved their cultures and tribal identities despite gov promoting assimilation - attempted to develop self-sustaining eco
Building the Trans. RR + discovery of mineral resources + gov policies = promotion of eco growth and new community centers
KC 6.1.2 - a variety of perspectives on the eco and labor developed during a time of financial panics
Some argued that Laissez-Faire policies and competition promoted eco growth in the long run, and they opposed gov intervention during eco downturn
Industrial workforce expanded and became more diverse through internal and international migration - child labor increased
Labor and management battled over wages and working conditions, with workers organizing local and national unions and/or directly confronting business leaders
Despite the indust. of some S eco - a change promoted by S leaders who called for a "new S" - ag based on sharecropping and tenant farming cont. to be a primary eco activity in the S
KC 6.1.3 - New systems of production and transportation enabled consolidation w/n ag, spurred a variety of responses from farmers
Improvements in mechanization helped ag production increase substantially and contributed to declines in food prices
Many farmers responded to increasing consolidating in ag markets and their dependence on the evolving RR system by creating local and regional cooperative org.
Eco instability inspired agrarian activists to create the People's (Populist) Party, which called for stronger gov role in reg. eco
KC 6.3.2 - Dramatic social changes in the period inspired pol debates over citizenship, corruption, and the proper relationship between business and gov
Many women wanted greater equality with men (joined voluntary org., going to college, promoting social and pol reform, and working in settlement houses to help immigrant adapt to US language and customs
SC decision in Plessy v. Furguson (upheld racial segregation) this helped mark the end of most political gains AA made during Reconstruction. (they faced discrimination, and scientific theories of race) AA reformers cont. to fight for pol and social equality
major pol parties appealed to lingering divisions from the CW and contended over tariffs and currency issues - even as reformers argued that eco greed and self-interest had corrupted all levels of gov
KC 6.3.1 - New cultural and intellectual movements both buttressed and challenged the social order of the Gilded Age
Some business leaders argued that the wealthy has moral obligation to help less fortunate and improve society (Gospel of Wealth) made contributions that enhanced edu opportunity and urban environment
artists and critics (agrarians, utopians, socialists and advocated of social gospel) championed alt. visions for US eco and society
Social commentators advocated Social Darwinism to justify the success of high class (appropriate and inevitable)