Period 6: 1865 – 1898 (10-17% of the Curriculum)

• Gilded Age
• Social Darwinism
• Conspicuous Consumption
• Local and National Unions (Be familiar with a few, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor)
• “New South”
• Sharecropping
• Tenant Farming
• Mechanized agriculture
• People’s (Populist) Party
• Political Machines
• Settlement Houses (Notably, Jane Addams’ Hull House)
• Decimation of the buffalo
• Laissez-faire economy
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Social Gospel
• Assimilation of Native Americans

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