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The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold
Season 3
All told, from 1872 through 1892, Gilded Age politics were little more than political showmanship. The political issues of the day, including the spo…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Political Corruption in Postbellum America
Season 3
In the years following the Civil War, American politics were disjointed, corrupt, and, at the federal level, largely ineffective in terms of addressi…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life
Season 3
The burgeoning cities brought together both rich and poor, working class and upper class; however, the realities of urban dwellers’ lives varied dram…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration
Season 3
For both African Americans migrating from the postwar South and immigrants arriving from southeastern Europe, a combination of “push” and “pull” fact…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Urbanization and Its Challenges
Season 3
Urbanization spread rapidly in the mid-nineteenth century due to a confluence of factors. New technologies, such as electricity and steam engines, tr…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
A New American Consumer Culture
Season 3
While tensions between owners and workers continued to grow, and wage earners struggled with the challenges of industrial work, the culture of Americ…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor
Season 3
After the Civil War, as more and more people crowded into urban areas and joined the ranks of wage earners, the landscape of American labor changed. …
3 months ago
From Invention to Industrial Growth
Season 3
As the three tycoons profiled in this section illustrate, the end of the nineteenth century was a period in history that offered tremendous financial…
3 months ago
Inventors of the Age
Season 3
Inventors in the late nineteenth century flooded the market with new technological advances. Encouraged by Great Britain’s Industrial Revolution, and…
3 months ago
The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens
Season 3
In the nineteenth century, the Hispanic, Chinese, and White populations of the country collided. White people moved further west in search of land an…
3 months, 1 week ago