GILDED AGE
Terms and Thinking Points (II)

1.  What methods did Gilded Age political parties use to attract and organize voters?
2.  Compare and contrast the Republican and Democrat parties in the Gilded Age.
3.  Why and how did the urban machines exist?
4.  What was the Pendleton Act, and how did it represent a successful political compromise?
5.  Why did Congress pass the Interstate Commerce Act in 1887, and what did the law do?
6.  What reform measures were passed during the Harrison administration?
7.  What were some common themes of the books written by Henry George, Edward Bellamy, and William Hope Harvey?
8.  How and why did the condition of farmers worsen during the 1880s?
9.  What protest groups did farmers join, and what were some of their aims?
10. What was the Omaha Platform, and why was it considered "radical"?
11. How did Tom Watson challenge the racial system in the South in his campaign for Populist reform?
12. What was the Panic of 1893, and how did President Cleveland respond to it?
13. How did the Election of 1896 represent a "revolution"?
14. What happened to African Americans during the Gilded Age?
15. What happpened to the electorate after 1896, and why?

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