6.11: Reform in the Gilded Age

Question 1

HENRY GEORGE

Answer 1

• Politican + economist
• USA’s simultaneous wealth + abundant abject poverty = foolish
• Single Tax on Land
• Wealthy earning disproportionate amount due to increasing value of large land
• Even playing field needed

Question 2

UTOPIANS

Answer 2

• Bellamy’s “Looking Backward” about Socialist triumph

Question 3

SOCIALISM

Answer 3

• Traction
• All means of production in society to be owned and regulated by community and to benefit everyone more or less equally
• Debs: Socialist Party of America
• Failure

Question 4

SOCIAL GOSPEL

Answer 4

• Christian principles needed to rid societal ill
• Protestant preachers crusaded for social justice for urban poor
• Tasked middle class w/ Christian duty of solving poverty

Question 5

NATIONAL AMERICAN WOMAN SUFFRAGE ASSOCIATION

Answer 5

• Stanton and Anthony
• Franchise for women

Question 6

TEMPERANCE

Answer 6

• Majority women
• Women’s Christian Temperance Union
• Total abstinence because drunkenness causing poverty
• 500,000 members
• Anti-Saloon League
• Both orgs peacefully protest and tried to lobby Congress
• Carrie Nation: hatchet into saloons