Chapter+23+Reading+Objectives

__**After reading this chapter, you should be able to: **__ 1. Describe the political corruption of the Grant administration and the mostly unsuccessful efforts to reform politics during the Gilded Age. (pg. 538-542) 2. Describe the economic crisis of the 1870s, and explain the growing conflict between hard-money and soft-money advocates. (pg. 542-543) 3. Explain the intense political partisanship of the Gilded Age, despite the parties’ lack of ideological difference and poor quality of political leadership. (pg. 543-544) 4. Indicate how the disputed Hayes-Tilden election of 1876 led to the Compromise of 1877 and the end of Reconstruction. (pg. 544-547) 5. Describe how the end of Reconstruction led to the loss of black rights and the imposition of the Jim Crow system of segregation in the South. (pg. 547-548) 6. Explain the rise of class conflict between business and labor in the 1870s and the growing hostility to immigrants, especially the Chinese. (pg. 548-551) 7. Explain the economic crisis and depression of the 1890s, and indicate how the Cleveland Administration failed to address it. (pg. 552-557) 8. Show how the farm crisis of the depression of the 1890s stirred growing social protests and class conflict, and fueled the rise of the radical Populist Party. (pg. 557-562)

Those objectives highlighted in yellow are ones that the instructor believes are "essential." Objectives 4-5 were already covered in Unit 9. Feel free to merely skim these sections as a review. Objectives 6-8 will be covered in future classes. Review them briefly so that you will have an understanding of these topics when we get to them.