HIST 173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Lincoln Steffens, Gilded Age, Margaret Sanger
Document Summary
Gilded age politics & the progressive era: from laissez-faire to reform, 1877-1917. Party politics in gilded age, 1877-1901: party profiles: democrats/republicans. Status quo presidents: rutherford b. hayes r (1877-81)/j. Arthur r (1881-85)/grover cleveland d (1885-89; 1893-1897)/benjamin harrison r (1889-1893) Panic of 1893 & rural populism: 1896/1900: william mckinley vs. william j. bryan, mckinley defeats bryan. African-americans after reconstruction: reconstruction of south (confederate states) (1865-1877) after civil war. Segregation/jim crow/plessy v. ferguson (1896: plessy light-skinned, 1/8 black. Booker t. washington/tuskegee institute (1881: tuskegee, alabama. Tuskegee institute vocational school, train blacks in industrial skills: w. e. b. Du bois/naacp (1909: black civil rights group. Progressivism: muckrakers & reform: teddy roosevelt (1901-1909) & taft (1909-1913, progressive republican. Environmentalism: reclamation act of 1902: woodrow wilson d (1913-1921) Women"s suffrage movement/susan b. anthony/carrie chapman catt/alice paul/19th. Immigration restriction/nat"l origins act (1924: republicans, wasps. Mckinley assassinated after 2nd inauguration: became president by accident. Came from most elite families in new york: went into politics, republicans.
