How did the role and responsibilities of the federal government change during the Progressive Era and the New Deal?

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Life in the Gilded Age, 1865-1900

Chapter 17

The New Urban America

  • The New Face of the City
  • Technological innovations
  • Many equated with progress
  • Urban expansion
  • Some cities became known for a particular product
  • The New Urban Middle Class
  • School attendance rose
  • Much of new advertising focused on middle class

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  • Refining Gender Roles
  • Greater educational opportunities for women
  • Marked part of a change in social definitions of gender roles
  • More women finished college
  • Some chose to enter the professions
  • Emergence of a Gay and Lesbian Subculture
  • Gravitated toward largest cities

The New Urban America

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  • “How the Other Half Lives”
  • Jacob Riis
  • Blamed:
  • Greedy landlords
  • Corrupt officials
  • The poor themselves

The New Urban America

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New South, Old Problems

  • Social Patterns in the New South
  • Education lagged

  • The Second Mississippi Plan and the Atlanta Compromise
  • Civil Rights Cases (1883)
  • Second Mississippi Plan (1890)
  • Booker T. Washington
  • Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)

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Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age

  • A Flood of Immigrants from Europe
  • Trend was constantly upward
  • U.S. attracted
  • Largest number
  • Greatest diversity
  • Patterns of settlement
  • Reflected expectations & opportunities

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  • Nativism
  • Fears of “new” immigrant
  • Often linked to anti-Catholicism
  • American Protective Association (APA)
  • Immigrants to the Golden Mountain
  • 300,000 Chinese immigrants
  • Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)

Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age

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  • Forced Assimilation
  • Dawes Severalty Act (1887)

  • Mexican Americans in the Southwest
  • Automatically became citizens
  • Discrimination
  • 1910 Mexican Revolution

Ethnicity and Race in the Gilded Age

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Workers Organize

  • Workers for Industry
  • Immigrants
  • Children
  • Women

  • The Origins of Unions and Labor Conflict in the 1870s
  • Great Railway Strike of 1877

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  • Competing Labor Organizations in the 1880s
  • Knights of Labor
  • Haymarket
  • American Federation of Labor

  • Labor on the Defensive in the 1890s
  • 1893 American Railway Union Strike

Workers Organize

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