After reading this chapter, you should be able to:

1. Characterize Gilded Age politicians, party campaigns, and the two political parties, and briefly explain the three major national and three typical local political issues of the late nineteenth century.
2. Define the following terms: Gospel of Wealth, social Darwinism, reform Darwinism, pragmatism, Social Gospel, Gilded Age.
3. Describe the purpose and the programs of the settlement house movement, the Social Gospel, and urban reformers.
4. State and briefly explain the results of three areas of legislation Congress considered in 1890, and explain the causes of the depression of 1893-1897.
5. Explain the party strategies, campaign issues, and results of the election of 1896.

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