HIS 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Grover Cleveland, Chester A. Arthur, Rutherford B. Hayes
Document Summary
Politics, industrialization, urbanization, immigration, capitalism, labor, native americans and the west, the south, populists, and the nadir of black life. Politics of the gilded age: laazie faire politics. French for hands off , let it be . Government took a hand off approach to social, business, etc. affairs. Conservative type government: corruption in politics. Gilded age was a very politically corrupt era in american history. Money controlled politics because money talks and bullshit walks. Political corruption caused the name gilded age . Looks good from the outside i. e. a golden trashcan: patronage. Huge monetary donations in exchange for political positions. Not what you know, its who you know was a strong statement for gilded politics: political bosses, efforts to reform corrupt politics. No income tax in the gilded age so taxes were heavily concentrated on imported goods. Debate on should tariffs be high or low: american business owners want a higher tariff.
