10/10, 6.12 and 6.14

Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 12- Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age

Student Learning Objective- Explain the continuities and changes in the role of government in the US economy.

Historical developments:

  • Laissez-Faire capitalism supporters ask for no government intervention in the economy
  • Labor strife at times saw government intervention
  • Sherman Anti-Trust Act- government intervention
  • Foreign policy makers look outside US borders for opportunities

“The necessities of our altered relationship to the Pacific Ocean [after the late 1840s] found expression in a comprehensive treaty of friendship, commerce, and navigation with the sovereign kingdom of Hawaii. . . .

“[The line] from San Francisco to Honolulu [in Hawaii] marks the natural limit of the ocean belt within which our trade with [eastern Asia] must flow. . . . When we survey the stupendous progress made by the western coast during the thirty years of its national life as a part of our dominion, . . . it is not easy to set a limit to its commercial activity or foresee a check to its maritime supremacy in the waters of [eastern Asia], so long as those waters afford, as now, a free and neutral scope for our peaceful trade. . . .

“[The United States] firmly believes that the position of the Hawaiian Islands as the key to the dominion of the American Pacific demands their neutrality, to which end it will earnestly cooperate with the native government. And if, through any cause, the maintenance of such a position of neutrality should be found by Hawaii to be impracticable, this government would then unhesitatingly meet the altered situation by seeking an avowedly American solution for the grave issues presented.”

Secretary of State James G. Blaine, letter to James M. Comly, United States ambassador to Hawaii, 1881

Discussion Question #1- What does Blaine support?

Discussion Question #2- Would you say Blaine supports Laissez-Faire capitalism or government intervention?  Explain.

Discussion Question #3- What is the inspiration for political, social or military intervention?

Discussion Question #4- How would you contextualize US acquiring colonies during Period 6: 1865-1898?

Mark Twain- To the Person Sitting in the Darkness

Discussion Question #5- What is Twain's point of view regarding American imperialism?


6.11 AP Daily Video #2- World's Colombian Exposition (Reminder- Videos for studying?)

400th anniversary of Columbus' voyage

Connections to today?

Question- Should the US celebrate Columbus Day, Indigenous People's Day or both?


Period 6: 1865-1898, Topic 14- Continuity and change in Period 6

Aligned with- GHS Social Studies Department Essential Question #9- How have advances in Technology impacted the development of the country and the American people?

Explain the extent to which industrialization brought change from 1865 to 1898.

Evaluate the extent to which technology transformed the US economy in the period from 1865 until 1898?

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