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__Tues 1/17__

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Additional info on tenement housing in NYC: []

Chapter 20
Review: AMSCO Ch. 19 Test: TBD but no earlier than Weds 1/25

__Weds 1/18__


 * Text pp. 765-774**

William Jennings Bryan, "Cross of Gold" speech, Gilded Age, "the politics of stalemate," Grand Army of the Republic, bloody shirts, Stalwarts vs Half-breeds, third parties and candidates (Prohibition, Anti-monopoly, Greenback, People's), Gilded Age campaigning and voter turnout, Pension Office, Congressional ascendancy, the "Millionaire's Club," patronage and spoils, civil service reform, greenbacks (fiat money vs specie), gold vs silver vs bimetallic monetary standards, contractionary/hard vs inflationary/soft monetary policy, revenue vs protective tariff vs free trade

__Thurs 1/19__

Charts for Gilded Age elections and presidential administrations:

Thomas Nast cartoon portfolio: []


 * Text pp. 774-781**

"Lemonade Lucy," Specie Resumption Act (hard money/return to gold standard), Bland-Allison Act (softer money/limited silver coinage), Great Railway Strike, Chester A. Arthur, Sen. Roscoe Conkling (R-NY), Election of 1880, James A. Garfield, Gen. Winfield Scott, Charles Guiteau, Pendleton Act, US civil service examinations, classified vs. unclassified positions, Mongrel Tariff (1883), 1882 midterm election, Election of 1884, Sen. James G. Blaine (R-ME), Mugwumps, Grover Cleveland, Election of 1888, Benjamin Harrison, [|Murchison letter], 1890, 1890 McKinley Tariff, Billion Dollar Congress, 1890 midterm election

__Fri-Sun 1/20-22__

[|Agrarian Discontent and Gilded Age Politics]


 * Text pp. 781-793**

Farmers' economic distress (falling commodity prices, expensive transport, credit, and manufactured goods), grain elevators, Oliver Kelley, the Grange/Granger movement, //Munn v. Illinois// and "Granger laws," Farmers' Alliance(s)/Alliance movement (North, South and Colored), Charles Macune, Mary Lease, Tom Watson, St. Louis Platform, subtreasury plan, People's Party/Populists, Omaha Platform, James Weaver, free silver, 16:1 bimetallism, Election of 1892, Panic of 1893, Coxey's Army, Homestead Strike, Pullman Strike, American Railway Union, Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland's response to depression and repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, Cleveland-Morgan gold bailout, 1894 Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act AND its income tax provision, //Pollock v Farmers Loan and Trust//, 1894 midterm election ,