The Class relations in United States during the late 19th and early 20th century Class Identity in America

The Class relations in United States during the late 19th and early 20th century Class Identity in America Defining our terms: Class versus Wealth American definitions of class Identifying upper, middle, and lower class Gender roles defined by class: Masculinity, Manliness, and Femininity Conceptualizing the ?American Dream? Is the ?American Dream? gender biased? Definitions of wealth Capital Status Control Mechanisms of controlling wealth Business: Consumerism and Marketing Government: Regulation, taxation, and protection Workers: Unionization and labor rights Image as cultural control Identifying a criminal class The Civil War was fought over wealth Analyzing the Civil War as a class based conflict Competing definition of wealth Regulating the plantation complex Urban working class versus slavery Wartime economies Northern development and expansion Mass production and the military industrial complex Innovation and technology: New weapons of war Urban working class identity: The case of the New York Draft Riots Southern Wartime industry New Industrial centers Women and the war effort Southern innovators: ?Creative Minds in Desperate Times? Planning for an economic reconstruction Federal Occupation and Military Governors Restoration of the South The Five Military Districts and contracting reconstruction Carpetbaggers: The northern economic invasion Southern response Ulysses S. Grant selling the South Ku Klux Klan defends the traditional South Criminal elements amidst the chaos: The Jesse James Gang versus U.S. Marshalls Identifying a ?Scalawag? The Freedmen''s Bureau: Making freedmen American workers The promise of ?40 Acres and a Mule? versus reality of sharecropping Key Terms New York draft riots Carpetbaggers Scalawags Ku Klux Klan Freedmen''s Bureau ?40 Acres and a Mule? Ulysses S. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James Longstreet Jubal Early Robert E. Lee Jesse James Gang The Gilded Age Creating ?Big Business?: Themes of Industrial America Post Civil War industrialization Government and business Labor and industry: Laissez-faire, Social Darwinism and Positivism Meet the cast Jay Gould: Land speculation and the Railroad Tycoon What did the railroad mean for Americans? Government support Revolutionizing labor Andrew Carnegie: Owning the means of production through vertical integration Technology and innovation: The Bessemer process Immigrant wealth ?Gospel of Wealth? John D. Rockefeller: Limiting enterprise through horizontal monopoly Establishing a ?standard? Trusts and holding companies J. P. Morgan: Keeping the American economy in trust America''s new banking Financial monopolies Pinkerton National Detective Agency versus Wild Bunch Government as a big business Conflicts of Interest? Sectional Politics Party Politics National corruption and the spoils system Factionalized Republican party City Politics: The case of Tammany Hall Labor in the Gilded Age Immigration and labor migration Urban labor: A new working class Attempts for Unionization and political organization Populist Party Early strikes and worker riots Knights of Labor and the AFL Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike Failure of Gilded Age labor reforms Scabs Strikebreakers Accusations of socialism Key Terms Laissez-faire Social Darwinism Positivism J.P. Morgan John D. Rockefeller Jay Gould Cornelius Vanderbilt Andrew Carnegie ?Gospel of Wealth? Bessemer process Standard Oil Vertical integration Horizontal integration Subsidies Trusts Holding companies William M. Tweed Mugwumps Spoils system President Rutherford B. Hayes President James Garfield Assassination of James Garfield President Chester A. Arthur President Grover Cleveland West Virginia Coal Miner Strike (1877) Great Railroad Strike (1877) Homestead Strike (1892) Eugene V. Debs Pullman Strike (1892) American Railway Union Pinkerton National Detective Agency American Federation of Labor Knights of Labor Wild Bunch (1890s) Middle Class Response to the Gilded Age Social Activism Social reform and women''s rights Frances Willard and American Temperance (WCTU) Women''s suffrage campaign Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the (NWSA) Susan B. Anthony and the (AWSA) Trial for ?Illegal Voting? Missionary movements Creating a social gospel Reform Darwinism Assessing the success of reform A cultural response Literature of Jack London and Upton Sinclair War and the popular press Yellow Journalism Muckraking political press Progressive Era Politics Teddy Roosevelt, a champion for reform Offering America a Square deal Roosevelt the Trust Buster Leading American Conservationism William Howard Taft: A hand picked successor A reluctant politician Break with the Republican norm Sixteenth and Seventeenth Amendments Election of 1912 A split in the Republican Party ?New Nationalism? versus the ?New Freedom? Wilson as a Progressive? A reversal in labor gains Alienating the conservatives Surviving the election of 1916 Key Terms Progressivism Trust Busting Theodore Roosevelt Cult of Domesticity Women''s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) American Women''s Suffrage Association (AWSA) National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) Suffragettes Frances Willard Elizabeth Cady Stanton Susan B. Anthony 1873 Trial for ?illegal voting? Social gospel Reform Darwinism Jack London Upton Sinclair The Jungle Sixteenth Amendment (ratified 1913) Seventeenth Amendment (ratified 1913) Progressive Party War and peace time definitions of class 20th century standards of the ?American Dream? Crisis defines success through conformity Wartime economies and unity Employing a full workforce Modernizing America Marketing patriotism Discontent gives rise to resistance Dramatic economic shift from war to peace time Veteran''s issues and social radicalism Marketing criminal elements Arming 1 million doughboys: Economy of the First World War Selective Service Act and the volunteer army Demonstrating America''s military capacities Marketing the war: Uncle Sam and the soldier''s image Demographic effects of the war: Second great migration White collar women in the war effort Post-war reactions Labor riots and the Red Scare Women''s movement continued: Birth Control, voting rights, and white collar employment Eighteenth and Nineteenth Amendments ?A return to normalcy? Marketing during the ?roaring 20s? Bootlegging, public enemies, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation The Great Depression: Problems to address Crash of the stock market signals a crisis Homelessness and disillusion Bank crisis Agricultural crisis: Inflation, the Dust bowl, and the laws of supply and demand FDR''s New Deal reins in the resistance: Was this a solution to America''s problems? Public Projects America''s Welfare system Bank Holiday Agricultural incentives and sharecropping Labor organization under Roosevelt: International Brotherhood of Teamsters 20th and 21st amendments (1933): America needs a drink World War 2 demands conformity Ford Motor Company A new Income tax Rosie the Riveter: Redefining gender roles Maintaining control in the ?nuclear? age Image of 1950s family Middle class ideal Social welfare: Truman''s ?Fair Deal? National security: Eisenhower and the ?Federal Highway Act? Working class power Union linked to mob interests Gambling, prostitution, and the founding of Las Vegas Havana mob and the Cuban Revolution Perspectives on foreign policy John F. Kennedy''s Alliance for Progress International response to American intervention Vietnam War as an identity crisis Social issues turn inward A black man''s place in Lyndon Johnson''s ?Great Society? Women''s ?liberation? movement Where do we stand now? Key Terms 18th Amendment 19th Amendment 20th Amendment 21st Amendment 22nd Amendment The Red Scare Warren G. Harding Calvin Coolidge ?The Great Migration? Herbert Hoover Black Tuesday Dust Bowl Bank Crisis Franklin Delano Roosevelt Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Indian Reorganization Act Social Security Act Election of 1940 A Bank Holiday American Welfare State International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Lend Lease Act (1940) Rosie the Riveter Double V Campaign Harry Truman Fair Deal Marshall Plan Federal Highway Act (1956) McCarthyism America''s Containment policy Havana Mob Las Vegas Mob Charlie ?Lucky? Luciano Jimmy Hoffa Meyer Lansky Robert Kennedy John F. Kennedy ?Alliance for Progress? Cuba Embargo Lyndon Johnson ?Great Society? Richard Nixon Reaganomics George W. Bush Barack Obama PLACE THIS ORDER OR A SIMILAR ORDER WITH US TODAY AND GET AN AMAZING DISCOUNT :)