AMH 2020H Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Helen Hunt Jackson, Sherman Antitrust Act, Interstate Commerce Act Of 1887
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Life out on the great plains and its problems, catle ranching, cowboys, railroads, mining, and farming and how some of the problems were solved. The homestead act of 1862 and its posiives and negaives. The treatment of naive americans during the gilded age - i. e. dawes act, batle of the litle. Various acts passed by the congress to bring business under control, interstate commerce act, The posiives and negaives of the railroads, credit mobilier, important court cases concerning the railroads, munn v. illinois. The rise and efects industrialism had on this country, important business people and their philosophies, i. e. - andrew carnegie, john d. rockefeller, social darwinism. Gilded age poliics, what helped shape poliics of the gilded age, the diferences between. Democrats and republicans, problems with various elecions, scandals that occurred during the various administraions, the wizard of oz and who or what the various characters, locaions represent.
