Notes

The gilded age 1865-1898 After the Civil War, many free black Americans were forced by economic necessity into a system called sharecropping, where they rented land from their former slave owners and paid rent on the land by giving part of their crop yeild back to the landowner.

Boss Tweed, and the corrupt Democratic Party operation he ran at Tammany Hall, is a prime example of 19th century machine politics.

What consequences did members of the 7th US Cavalry undergo for participating in the massacre at Wounded Knee?
Twenty US Army personnel were awarded the Medal of Honor, and the event was generally regarded as favorable by the American public.
The American public celebrated the massacre of hundreds of Sioux men, women, and children, as the United States marked the definitive end of Indian resistance to white settlement.
Rockefeller's mansion
laborers' quarters
How is this photo of John D. Rockefeller’s mansion contrasted with this photo of laborers’ quarters a good illustration of why this era is known as the “Gilded Age”?
The grand splendor of the wealthy few was achieved at the expense of many impoverished workers.
A few individuals and families, like the Rockefellers, accumulated immense amounts of wealth, while much of America’s working class struggled to make ends meet.