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Unit I: America’s Gilded
Age
Andrew Jackson • 1829‐1837 • “Plowman” • Battle of New
Orleans • “Old Hickory” • Nullification • Trail of Tears • Whigs refer to him
as “King Andrew” (Andrew Jackson, n.d.)
The Civil War Ends & Lincoln Dies
(The Assassination, n.d.)
Post Civil War Map of the U.S.
(United States, n.d.)
Tom Torlino: Before and after “civilizing”
(Tom Torlino, n.d.)
Native Americans Post Civil War
A Policy of Civilizing
• 1869 President Grant urged “their civilization and citizenship” Civilization meant speaking English, owning property, and Christianity Citizenship meant allegiance to the United States and not the tribe
1887 Congressman Henry Dawes said they should “wear civilized clothes . . . cultivate the ground, live in houses, ride in Studebaker wagons, send their children to school, drink whiskey and own property.”
Dawes Severalty Act, 1887
Tribal lands divided into 160 acres
Cannot be sold to whites for 25 years
Extra reservation land went to fund schools
Granted citizenship Banned religious or sacred ceremonies
Medicine men couldn’t practice
By 1934‐86 million acres of Native land would be in white hands
The Gilded Age:
Vanderbilt Family: 1874 Andrew Carnegie
(Going to the Opera, n.d.)
(Andrew Carnegie, n.d.)
Rockefeller and Standard Oil
(Standard Oil Cartoon, n.d.)
Gilded Age Magnets • Cornelius Vanderbilt = Steamships and railroads • George Westinghouse = Air brakes for locomotives, alternating current
• Andrew Carnegie = “Steel King,” philanthropist • George Pullman = Palace cars for railroads • Milton Hershey = Chocolate Bars (affordable) • E.I. Dupont = Gunpowder, plastics • Alexander Graham Bell = Telephone • Thomas Edison = Incandescent light bulb, phonograph, motion picture
• John Rockefeller = Standard Oil • Swift & Armour = “Meat Kings of Chicago”
Ulysses S. Grant Corruption
Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant as an acrobat on trapeze "third term," holding on to "whiskey ring" and "Navy ring," holding strap "corruption" in his mouth, and holding up other acrobats.
(Keppler, 1880)
The Whiskey Ring, 1875
(Nast, 1876)
References Andrew Jackson ‐ 7th president of the United States (1829–1837) [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved
September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Andrew_Jackson_large_portrait.jpg#/media/File :Andrew_Jackson_large_portrait.jpg
Andrew Carnegie [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Carnegie#/media/File:Andrew_Carnegie,_t hree‐quarter_length_portrait,_seated,_facing_slightly_left,_1913.jpg
Going to the opera [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Vanderbilt_family#/media/File:Vanderbilt_ family_1874.jpg
Keppler, J. (1880). Ulysses S. Grant as an acrobat [Image]. Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3ACartoon_showing_Ulysses_S._Grant%2C_as_ an_acrobat%2C_on_trapeze_%22third_term%2C%22_holding_on_to_%22whiskey_ring%2 2_and_%22Navy_ring%2C%22_with_strap_%22corruption%22_in_his_mouth%2C_holding _up_other_acrobats%2C_Shepard%2C_George_LCCN97515760.jpg
Nast, T. (1876). Whiskey ring [Image]. Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Whiskeyring.jpg
Standard Oil cartoon with octopus [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_oil_octopus_loc_color.jpg#/media/File: Standard_oil_octopus_loc_color.jpg
The assassination of President Lincoln [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Assassination_of_President_Lincoln.jpg
Tom Torlino, Navajo, before and after [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Tom_Torlino_Navajo_before_and_after_circa_18 82.jpg
United States central map 1865 to 1866 [Image]. (n.d.). Retrieved September 22, 2015 from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:United_States_Central_map_1865‐05‐ 05_to_1866‐05‐05.png
