| A. | Movement of European Americans into western territories | ||
| 1. | Conflict with Native Americans | ||
| a. | Removal of Indians to reservations | ||
| b. | Dawes Severalty Act | ||
| 2. | Contact with Hispanic Americans | ||
| a. | Mexican Americans disenfranchised | ||
| b. | Mexican Americans reduced to peonage | ||
| B. | Ranching frontier | ||
| 1. | Postwar boom in range cattle industry | ||
| a. | Importance of railroad to cattle industry | ||
| b. | Wars between ranchers and farmers | ||
| c. | Decline of open-range grazing | ||
| 2. | National consequences | ||
| C. | Mining frontier | ||
| 1. | Silver discoveries propel western settlement | ||
| a. | Growing demand for copper | ||
| b. | Violence endemic in early mining | ||
| c. | Poor relations between capital and labor | ||
| 2. | National consequences | ||
| A. | Ideology of the New South | |
| 1. | Political background, continuation of Republican Party | |
| 2. | Democratic Party fails to win presidency | |
| 3. | Goals of economic growth and industrial development | |
| 4. | Henry Grady's vision | |
| B. | Industrial development | |
| 1. | Textile, tobacco, and railroad industries | |
| 2. | Condition of southern workers | |
| 3. | Extent of northern investment and control | |
| 4. | Comparison of southern and northern industrialization | |
| C. | Agricultural development | |
| 1. | Weaknesses of southern agriculture | |
| 2. | Lien system, sharecroppers, tenant farmers | |
| 3. | Overall assessment of southern economy | |
| A. | Racial violence and abuse | |
| 1. | Increase of lynchings and riots | |
| 2. | Use of convict leasing and chain gangs | |
| 3. | Suppression of Republican Party | |
| B. | Disfranchisement | |
| 1. | Goals of those who benefit from the policies | |
| 2. | Discriminatory voting qualifications, literacy tests, poll taxes, property qualifications | |
| 3. | Supreme Court upholds discrimination in Williams v. Mississippi (1898) | |
| C. | Segregation | |
| 1. | Passage of Jim Crow laws | |
| 2. | Separate but equal rule established with Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) | |
| D. | Response of southern reformers | |
| 1. | Prison reform movement | |
| 2. | Booker T. Washington and the Atlanta Compromise | |
| A. | Overview of presidential elections | ||
| 1. | Political stalemate, closely contested elections | ||
| 2. | Statistics on control of House and Senate | ||
| 3. | Campaign strategies | ||
| a. | Republicans "wave bloody shirt" | ||
| b. | Democrats protest Negro rule | ||
| B. | Civil-service reform | ||
| 1. | Various groups emerged | ||
| a. | Mugwumps | ||
| b. | Stalwarts | ||
| c. | Half-Breeds | ||
| 2. | James A. Garfield assassinated by Charles Guiteau | ||
| 3. | Passage of the Pendleton Act | ||
| 4. | Effects on election of 1884 | ||
| C. | The tariff issue | ||
| 1. | Role in election of 1888 | ||
| 2. | Significance of McKinley Tariff of 1890 | ||
| 3. | Role in election of 1892 | ||