HIST 221 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Pullman Strike, Hull House, Grover Cleveland
14 Mar 2016
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Lost world of gilded age poliics hist221 reading notes. Popular stereotype of gilded age poliics that corrupion and meaningless issues were its primary characterisics, from contemporary sources. Get rich quick, vote using, and corrupion. American public on fundamental issues concerning the direcion of the naion and the role of government in naionalize. 1830s to 1890s: poliical paries dominated, gilded age republican party billed itself as naionalism, prosperous, and moral. Morrill tarif of 1861 established protecionisms in america. Land-grant college act to help inexpensive college educaion necessary for an industrial society. Federal authorise provided land subsidies to western railroads, expanding commercial acivity. Naional banking acts placed prohibiive 10% tax on state bank notes, uniform naional monetary system. Time of patronage, ofered social control and predictable growth. Presidents deferred to state or local party leaders for appointments within jurisdicion, professional civil service. Pendleton act, root from which bureaucraic state of 20th c grew.
