UnitI:America’sGilded
Age
AndrewJackson• 1829‐1837• “Plowman”• Battle of New
Orleans• “Old Hickory”• Nullification• Trail of Tears• Whigs refer to him
as “King Andrew”(Andrew Jackson, n.d.)
TheCivilWarEnds&LincolnDies
(The Assassination, n.d.)
PostCivilWarMapoftheU.S.
(United States, n.d.)
Tom Torlino: Before and after “civilizing”
(Tom Torlino, n.d.)
NativeAmericansPostCivilWar
APolicyofCivilizing
• 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
TheGildedAge:
Vanderbilt Family: 1874 Andrew Carnegie
(Going to the Opera, n.d.)
(Andrew Carnegie, n.d.)
RockefellerandStandardOil
(Standard Oil Cartoon, n.d.)
GildedAgeMagnets• 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”
UlyssesS.GrantCorruption
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)
TheWhiskeyRing,1875
(Nast, 1876)
ReferencesAndrew 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,_three‐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%22_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_1882.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