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=**Chapter 19: From Stalemate to Crisis (politics of the late 19th C)**=

** Main Ideas: **

 * 1) The effects of the political equilibrium of the Democratic and Republican parties during the late nineteenth century, and the origins of this equilibrium in differing regional and sociocultural bases.
 * 2) The inability of the political system and a limited national government to respond effectively to the nation's rapid social and economic changes, particularly the advent of large corporations and industrial capitalism.
 * 3) The powerful but unsuccessful challenge mounted by the troubled agrarian sector to the new directions of American industrial capitalism, and how this confrontation came to a head during the crises of the 1890s and the election of 1896.

Chapter 19 Brinkley Notes



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 * Handouts/Homework: **

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"The politics of the Gilded Age failed to deal with the critical social and economic issues of the times." Assess the validity of this statement. Use both the documents and your knowledge of the United States from 1865-1900. (AP Amsco p395)
 * DBQs:**

Evaluate the impact of the Civil War on political and economic developments in TWO of the following regions: - The South - The North - The West Focus your answer on the period between 1865 and 1900. (2006 AP Workshop materials sample questions p33).
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