HIST 221 Chapter Notes - Chapter reading: Gilded Age, White Southerners, Grain Elevator
19 Oct 2018
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Reading: miller - lost world of gilded age politics. The popular stereotype was that corruption, demagoguery and meaningless issues were the primary characteristics of the gilded age politics. Revisionist historians acknowledge the greed and corruption of the era they said that. American public on fundamental issues concerning the nation and the role that the government should play in national life. From the 1830s to 1890s political parties dominated american politics. The republican party labelled itself as the party of nationalism, prosperity and moralism. It promoted a prosperous national economy through neo-mercantilist legislation. Their support was from white anglo-saxon northern protestants. Jeffersonian small government, they were non-interventionalist laissez faire economic policies, states rights and personal liberties. They received most of their support from a range of ethnic and cultural outgroups such as recent immigrants and white southerners. 19th century parties shaped campaigns into popular spectacles. Parties employed armies of workers to propagandize potential supporters.
