Rapid Industrialization: The Gilded Age And The Gilded Age
The history of the Spanish claim to the California coast and north to Alaska is among the many themes celebrated at Sitka National Historical Park, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve in Alaska, and at Golden Gate National Recreation Area and Point Reyes National Seashore, Channel Islands National Park, and Fort Point National Historic Site in California.
During this time both the French and British attempted to take
gain control of Florida from Spain. Like the Spanish, these
nations sought to exploit the rich resources of the area. For the
most part, Spain was able to ward off these attempts; however,
continued attacks by both France and England throughout the 1700s
revealed the growing weakness of Spains hold on Florida. During a
brief period, from 1763 until 1784, the British gained control of
Florida. The British split Florida into two parts: East Florida,
with its capital at St. Augustine; and West Florida, with its
seat at Pensacola. The Spanish regained control of Florida in
1784 as part of the peace treaty that ended the American
Revolution.
The end of the reconstruction era gave rise to the gilded age.
The gilded age was a time of economic growth. It was the second
industrial revolution, urbanization, immigration and
political/economic corruption. The congress and the big business
were more influential than the presidency.
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- Working class
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- American Civil War
Many miners had left in pursuit of gold out west beginning in
1849 and the easily worked minerals became depleted. Iowas
fertile farmlands also lured miners away from the dangerous and
struggling industry, and by 1870, agriculture had replaced lead
mining as the regions most valuable asset. The archeological
remains of the 19th century mining communities of Catfish and
Mosalem and a camp are located within the district.
Today, Chamizal National Memorial serves as cultural center that
offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the border culture,
history, and heritage that Americans and Mexicans continue to
share. At the Memorial, visitors may walk the Cordova Island
trail that offers a wonderful view of the El Paso skyline and
international bridge. Chamizal National Monument is the first
national park unit to form a partnership with the Office for the
United States Mexico Border of the Pan American Health
Organization to create a local Ecoclub, called Ecoclub El
Chamizala.
The Ninth Circuit Courts decision did not overturn racial
segregation in its district, but it did uphold the core of
McCormicks decision and ruled that it is unconstitutional to
segregate Americans because of their heritage. Two months after
the trial, California Governor Earl Warren, who later presided
over Brown v. Board as Chief Justice of the U. S.
Supreme Court, signed a bill that made California the first State
to outlaw all public school segregation.
Some of the artifacts that marked the Spanish occupation include
an engraved gunstock, a 16th-century gilded bronze religious
medal, chain mail, majolica, and candlesticks. Artifacts like a
comal, or native stone griddle, a broken three-legged
Mexican metate, an obsidian scraper, and charred animal bones --
mostly domesticated cattle. These objects provide evidence of
what the colonists ate and how the community began to use local
native objects for their daily needs, on account of the distance
the heavy basalt metates, herds of cattle, and painted Mexican
pottery had to travel.
The club is a youth-led community organization that promotes
sustainable economic, human, and environmental well-being. The
entire complex, known simply as Los Adaes, quickly became the
administrative capital of the Spanish province of Texas (Tejas)
in 1729 and served as the first capital of Texas until 1770. Los
Adaes would also become an important cultural and social melting
pot at the international border between Spanish and French
controlled lands. Although abandoned in 1773, Los Adaes set the
stage for the blend of Spanish and French traditions that is
still celebrated in Louisianas Creole heritage today.
During the early decades of Spanish Florida, the colonial
territory stretched from South Carolina to the Gulf of Mexico. In
1565, Florida governor Pedro Menéndez de Avilés led the first
successful colonizing expedition of civilians, priests, and
soldiers to the colony. Upon arrival, Menéndez forced a small
party of French settlers from the region and then established
missions, towns, and forts along the eastern coast, including St.
Augustine, the oldest surviving European city in the United
States. The Spanish colonized the Georgia coast at that time and
settled on its defensible barrier islands.
The Gilded Age: African American Challenges and Accomplishments
The Méndez lawyer filed the lawsuit at the U. S. Court for the
Southern District of California, where they could argue that the
State of California violated the childrens right to the
Constitutions Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment. The
U. S. Constitution states that no State can deny to any person
within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. The
lawyer also used social science expert witnesses to explain that
segregating children threatened their self-esteem and segregated
school districts invented an inferior class of citizens where one
did not exist. As a result, Méndez v. Westminster was
the first Federal lawsuit openly to challenge separate but equal
segregation in K-12 schools. In Courtroom No. 8 of the historic
U. S. Court House and Post Office of Los Angeles, Judge Paul J.
McCormick decided in favor of Méndez.
In his 1946 decision, McCormick wrote,
The equal protection of the laws pertaining to the public school
system in California is not provided by furnishing in separate
schools the same technical facilities, textbooks and courses of
instruction to children of Mexican ancestry that are available to
the other public school children regardless of their ancestry.
By 1800, nearly 4,000 Acadians were in Louisiana. Over time,
Acadians have intermarried with other groups including Spanish
and American Indian peoples. Their unique traditions, styles,
foods and music are reflected in the Cajun culture Louisiana is
famous for today.
Visitors to Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve
can explore the Acadian Cultural Center in Lafayette , the
Prairie Acadian Cultural Center in Eunice, and the Wetlands
Acadian Cultural Center in Thibodaux to learn about the Acadian
or Cajun culture of Louisianas Mississippi Delta region.
Like Cajun, the term Creole is a popular term used to describe
cultures in the southern Louisiana area. Creole can be roughly
defined as native to a region, but its precise meaning varies
according to the geographic area in which it is used. Generally,
however, Creoles felt the need to distinguish themselves from the
influx of American and European immigrants coming into the area
after the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. Creole is still used to
describe the heritage and customs of the various people who
settled Louisiana during colonial times.
In 1848, after the Mexican American War, California became part of the United States. The Presidio served until 1994 as an important military post, then became part of Golden Gate National Recreation Area. During World War II, the Visitors can drive or take a ferry to Fort George Island where the visitor center at the Ribault Club highlights the islands long history. Built in 1928, the clubhouse for the Ribault Club is a remnant of Roaring Twenties society life. Created as a social club for the wealthy, the club had as members men and women from major East Coast cities like New York, Philadelphia, Boston, Wilmington, and Pittsburgh. The visitor center interprets Timucua life on and around Fort George Island, particularly along the St. Johns River. A video recounts the history of the club. Segway tours and a CD tour to play on a car stereo are also available. The Theodore Roosevelt Area preserves a landscape very similar to that of Old Florida during the time of the Timucua.
The term Gilded Age was termed by Mark Twain who described the
wealthy who were covered in a layer of gold, a superficial layer
can be peeled and reveals unpleasant things. Presidio
Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía, Goliad, Texas
The Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía (Presidio de la
Bahía) served the people of four independent nations: Spain,
Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the United States, and is
recognized for its cross-cultural, religious, and military
significance. Constructed in 1749 to protect the Spanish missions
in South Texas, including the nearby Franciscan Mission Nuestra
Señora del Espíritu Santo de Zuñiga, the Presidio de la Bahía is
an outstanding example of a Spanish military compound. The
presidio played a critical role in the development of Spanish and
Mexican culture in the region and was important in conflicts that
took place through the years of the Mexican Revolution (1821) and
the later Texan Rebellion(1836).
Today, the entire military compound, including the chapel (the
Lady of Loreto) has been carefully documented and returned to its
1836 appearance. The National Historic Landmark now stands as an
important religious and cultural center in the community of
Goliad, serving as both a church and heritage site.
The indegent laborers within the gilded age usually viewed the alteration that The Westminster school district appealed McCormicks decision and the U. S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco heard the appeal in 1947. By this time, the case had attracted national attention. If an appeal went to the U. S. Supreme Court, it had the potential to overturn public segregation throughout the nation. At the appeals level, the American Civl Liberties Union (ACLU), the National Lawyers Guild, and the Japanese American Citizens League filed a joint brief in support of Méndez. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), American Jewish Congress, and the Attorney General of California also submitted briefs. Together, these briefs challenged the logic of all racial segregation in the United States, as well as the legality of segregating Mexican Americans in California.
In 1569, colonial soldiers built a large fort and garrison on
Cumberland Island, which they called San Pedro Island, in
present-day southeast Georgia. The island was already known by
European and Native American traders for its profitable sassafras
tree production, and the Timucua Indians called the island
Wissoo, which means sassafras. In 1587, Franciscan priest
Baltazar Lopéz arrived on the island and established the San
Pedro de Tacatacuru mission.
Santa Fe Plaza today is no longer a barren expanse of packed dirt
or an alfalfa field, but a pleasant, grassy public square, lined
with cottonwood trees and flagstone walkways. It is half the size
today that it was during the Spanish period. There are three
historical stone markers in the plaza: memorials that mark the
start of the Santa Fe Trail and Kearnys announcement of
annexation, and the central obelisk memorial to soldiers killed
during the 1862 Battle of Glorieta Pass. The Palace of the
Governors, the oldest continuously occupied public building in
the United States, is located across the street from the Plaza
and is open to visitors.
S. military. Hubbell was able to use his knowledge of the Navajo
culture and language to establish perhaps the most successful
trading empire in the American Southwest. He opened the trading
post that is now Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site in
1878, ten years after Navajo returned to their homeland from
their Bosque Redondo exile.
Spanish colonists settled in California in the 18th century and
ran large ranches on land given to them by the Spanish crown. In
southern California, a Spanish soldier received a large land
grant in 1774 that stretched across present-day Los Angeles and
Orange counties. A large portion of this grant became Los
Cerritos Ranch, now the City of Long Beach. In the mid-19th
century, an American who became a Mexican citizen acquired the
ranch and built the Los Cerritos Ranch House, a National Historic
Landmark. Constructed in 1844, the restored Los Cerritos Ranch
House is a grand example of mixed Monterey Colonial and hacienda
styles of architecture applied to a traditional Spanish-Mexican
colonial ranch house.
After 50 years of research at San Luis de Talimali, the State of
Florida took advantage of the growing wealth of information about
the mission and reconstructed the Apalachee mission town near its
historic site.
In 1805, V. S. Pintao, the official Spanish surveyor of West
Florida, at the instruction of Don Carlos de Grendpre, the
Governor of West Florida, designed an area in Baton Rouge with 18
long and narrow lots, with a public road 40 feet wide running
east to west through the settlement. The area became
Spanish Town, which today is the oldest
neighborhood in the City of Baton Rouge. Pintao designed the lots
so that each family would have enough space for a house, a
garden, and a stable. As Spanish Town grew, the original layout
extended to include 20 more lots to the east. The 40 feet wide
public road running through the middle of Spanish Town became the
Spanish Town Road.
Culture may be paradoxical The Gilded Age or Imperialism
expansion examine the conflicting values that America held for
gilded age had been an interval ever sold that caused a huge
change as a result of the enhance of United states
industrialization. Values and attitudes toward The Gilded Age
poor employees usually saw the changed caused by the Gilded Age
as corrupt, where in actuality the rich business men viewed it as
an optimistic modification.
Archeological evidence demonstrates that the Spanish community lived in two story adobe room blocks and maintained some degree of social hierarchy among themselves, where certain areas were living spaces for laborers and others for officers. The adobe rooms had been taken from previous Pueblo inhabitants. Archeological evidence shows that the Spanish altered the original architecture to fit their needs; the lower rooms originally could only have been entered by a ladder from the ceiling, but the Spanish colonists cut doors in the walls of the ground level floors. When the children of Gonzolo Méndez tried to enroll at an Orange County, California school in 1943, the school denied them entry because of their Mexican heritage. The same day the school administrators rejected his children, they admitted Gonzolos niece and nephew, fair-skinned Alice and Edward Vidaurri. Administrators at the school district told the family that Mexican Americans needed their own schools because of cultural and language differences. The Méndez children enrolled at Hoover, the local Mexican American school, but Gonzolo was not satisfied.
This area highlights the ecological diversity of Florida and
provides opportunities for hiking and bird watching, as does the
Cedar Point part of the park.
Well before the Adams-Onís Treaty, many European powers sought
control over the land that would one day become the State of
Florida. During the 1500s, early Spanish explorers such as Juan
Ponce de León, Hernando de Soto, and Tristán de Luna y Arellano,
helped to identify Florida as a desirable place for explorers,
missionaries, and treasure seekers. In 1513 when Ponce de León
arrived on the sandy shores of Florida for the first time, he
named the area la Florida, in honor of Pascua Florida (feast of
the flower), Spains Easter time celebration. After the early
explorers failed settlement attempts in Florida, Spaniard Pedro
Menéndez de Avilés established a permanent settlement, named San
Agustín (St. Augustine) in 1565. St. Augustine was the first
permanent European settlement in what is now the continental
United States.
For the next couple of hundred years Spain continued its
colonization efforts, constructing forts and Catholic missions
throughout Florida.
He knew separate but equal did not legally apply to his children
and the school district was violating their rights. The Méndez
family organized with four other fathers whose children faced
similar discrimination. William Guzmán, Frank Palomino, Thomas
Estrada, and Lorenzo Ramirez joined Gonzolo to launch the first
class-action case in a Federal court in American civil rights
history that would challenge primary school segregation.
First called La Ciudad de Puerto Rico, the city was at a
site noted for its gentle breezes, good ventilation, and flat
lands that were well suited for construction. The first permanent
building in the new city was the Casa de Tapias, which
took its name from the horizontal bands, or tapias, used
in its construction. Builders in some parts of Spain and Europe
still use this somewhat rare construction method. Its continued
use has allowed archeologists to envision how the Casa de
Tapias must have looked in the 1500s. Not long after, more
impressive buildings with stone walls and outdoor patios
appeared. Their façades featured imported tiles from Seville
arranged in decorative patterns.
Visitors to the Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía can
explore the site to learn more about its history and stories that
span over 250 years.
Both José Antonio and his wife María Victoria were active and
influential members in their community. By 1829, José Antonio
owned three ranches in California, and as his wealth grew, so did
his importance in the community. From 1828 until his death in
1852, José Antonio held many public offices in San Diego. He
served as revenue collector, treasurer, mayor, justice of the
peace, judge of San Diego under Mexican rule, and later as
treasurer and assessor of San Diego County under American rule.
While José Antonio played an active role in the development of
early San Diego, his wife fully participated in the life of the
Mexican pueblo and the new American city.
The Larkin House, a National Historic Landmark, is a two-story
mud adobe brick home built during Montereys Mexican period by
Thomas O. Larkin, a New England Yankee merchant who was highly
successful and influential in early California politics. Thomas
O.
R. Cooper, in Yerba Buena (original name of San Francisco),
California. Larkin sailed from Boston to Monterey in 1831 aboard
the ship Newcastle. On board, he met Rachel Hobson
Holmes, also from Massachusetts, who became his wife in 1833.
Once in California, Larkin worked as a clerk in his half-brothers
business for about a year until he had enough money to go into
business for himself.
The Guajome Ranchhouse near Vista, California is a remarkably
intact example of a large Spanish Colonial style ranch complex.
Built in 1852-1853, the large, one-story adobe hacienda with a
double courtyard occupies land that was once part of the Spanish
San Luis Rey Mission. What makes Rancho Guajome so unusual is
that not only the main house but service buildings are still
standing-- including the jail, blacksmith shop, horse stalls,
carriage house, harness room, family chapel, servants' house,
barns and sheds.
Dubuque was the largest and most prosperous community in the
entire lead district through the Civil War. Between 1845 and
1847, mining activity in the area peaked with the production of
54 million pounds of lead a year, at the time the most of any
mining district in the entire world.
In Tallahassee today, Mission San Luis is a living history park where visitors can learn about Spanish colonial and Apalachee history at the permanent museum exhibits, enter reconstructed Spanish and Apalachee buildings and structures, and talk to costumed interpreters about the lives of the people who lived there. For its exceptional work in heritage education and historical recreation, Mission San Luis received Preserve Americas Presidential Award for heritage tourism in 2006. Among the many reconstructed buildings are the large Apalachee council house, mission church, Apalachee ball court, and Fort San Luis. The Spanish colonists and Apalachee destroyed their houses and public buildings at San Luis de Talimali in 1704, but thanks to the work of archeologists, visitor can explore the village reconstructed to look as it did at the height of the missions influence.
Larkin (1802-1858), financier, confidant of California officials,
and United States Consul to Mexican California, not only exerted
great influence on the political history of California, he also
influenced the development of Californian adobe buildings. In the
1830s, the Larkin House became the prototype of Monterey Colonial
architecture. Monterey Colonial buildings mix New England and
Southwestern building techniques. They are constructed with
wooden frames and mud bricks to make a leaner, sturdier adobe
buildings than ones made primarily from mud and straw. The
greater stability of Monterey buildings--compared to single-story
adobes--allows for a large second-story and long covered porch.
The covered second story porch also protected the adobe façade
and walls of the house from water damage. By adapting an east
coast building form to available California materials, adobe and
redwood, and to California architectural preferences, Larkin
created a style that synthesized elements of two very different
cultures, that of the Spanish and Mexican colonists and of the
Americans moving into California.
Born in Massachusetts in 1802, Larkin spent the first decades of
his life pursuing various business ventures along the east coast
of the United States. After attempting several businesses and
having little success, Larkin decided to join his half-brother,
John B.
More than anything else, Freedom Tower stands tall as a symbol of
hope and freedom, and the firm belief that democracy should be
available to all who fight against tyranny and demagoguery.
Alliances. The farmer alliances had been more governmental rather
then social. The farmers alliance later formed the populist. The
populist movement is known as to be an agrarian revolt by farmers
and people concerned with farming, because within the gilded age
people had been moving to rural areas where banks and industrial
systems were superior over agriculture. The high tariffs,
decentralization of money, and decreasing crop rates were hurting
the farmers. Started by James B Weaver and Tom Watson Between
1822 and 1846, the Presidio became part of the Mexican Republic.
The Coast Miwok, Yokuts, Pomo, Sierra Miwok, and Salinan were all
gathered in the area to supply the Presidio with labor and to
serve the needs of the Mexican settlement. When Mexico opened its
ports in 1821, various trading companies began to arrive. By the
1820s, the Presidio settlement had expanded outside the original
walled plaza built by the Spanish.
Gilded Age In America During The 19th Century
The trading post and Hubbell home look much today as they did
during Lorenzo Hubbells time.
The mission system dramatically altered the lives of the
Tacatacuru at Cumberland Island. Before the Spanish arrived, the
Tacatacuru moved seasonally between the island and the mainland.
Afterward, the tribe lived permanently on the island and adopted
a sedentary lifestyle based on European animal husbandry and
agriculture that kept them close to the mission year-round.
Spanish missionaries taught the Tacatacuru Christians to speak
the Spanish language, and some to read and write it. The
missionaries also learned to speak the Timucuan dialects and
created a written form of Timucuan, which some of the indigenous
people learned and used to communicate with each other. In the
early 17th century, Franciscan missionary Francisco Pareja wrote
several Catholic primers in Timucuan.
As the lead defendant, Gonzolo Méndez sued four school districts
and superintendants on the grounds that his children and the
children of other Mexican Americans were legally white, therefore
entitled to attend white schools.
Following the Civil War and Reconstruction, the us government was
looking for a way to have the people inspired; motivated to
operate once again, inspired to own a better life once again, and
like an answered prayer we joined the Gilded Age. The rapid
development from 1865 to 1900 was brought on by the availability
of money and resources. With business owners prepared to take a
risk with this particular money and new resources, extraordinary
growth arose. Railroads had been evolving everywhere and for that
reason the Steel Today, visitors to La Purísima Mission State
Historic Park will see 10 of the original buildings fully
reconstructed, restored and furnished, including the church,
shops, living quarters, and blacksmith shop. The park's
buildings, mission gardens, livestock, living history events, and
visitor center provides visitors with a glimpse into what life
was like on a California mission during the 1820s.
Acadians from French Acadie (today Canadian Nova Scotia) began
filtering into the region as early as the 1750s. When the British
took control of the Acadie colony in the early 1700s, many
Acadians were not cooperative and preferred to maintain their
independence and freedom. By 1755, the British government began
dispersing disloyal Acadian subjects to other colonies along the
East Coast, the Caribbean, Britain, and France.
The area around the plaza is still a commercial hub. Many of the buildings in the Santa Fe Historic District that includes and surrounds the plaza are in Spanish-Pueblo, Territorial and 19th-century non-indigenous architectural styles that give the district its distinct character. Restaurants, galleries, boutiques, and museums line the streets around the plaza. In honor of its Spanish past, the city continues to host La Fiesta de Santa Fe at the plaza, where the locals celebrate the citys Hispano heritage annually each September with plays, parades, music, dancing, crafts, and a Catholic mass. Following the return of the Navajo from the Bosque Redondo, traders continued supplying them with the materials they had grown accustomed to using during their four-year exile. Among the traders to establish a successful relationship with the Navajo was John Lorenzo Hubbell. Hubbell not only developed an industry from the Navajo crafts, but also helped the Navajo adapt to their new environment and readjust to reservation life. He had become familiar with the Navajos language and traditions while traveling around the Southwest as a Spanish interpreter for the U.
Freedom Tower in Miami, Florida is considered the "Ellis Island
of the South for its role from 1962 through 1974 as the Cuban
Assistance Center, offering nationally sanctioned relief to the
Cuban refugees who sought political asylum from the regime of
Fidel Castro. A National Historic Landmark, Freedom Tower
illustrates the important story of the Cuban exodus to the United
States and resettlement during the Cold War. Because of the
political climate of the era, Cubans seeking political asylum
received a warm welcome into the United States. Many Cubans fled
to Miami, Florida because of its close proximity to Cuba.
Enacted during President John F. Kennedys administration, the
Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 authorized
assistance to the large number of Cubans fleeing to the United
States for political asylum. The U. S. government transformed the
building at 600 Biscayne Boulevard in Miami into the Freedom
Tower, opening the Cuban Assistance Center there to help Cubans
with everything from health care to housing, finances, and
education. While assistance centers opened in Miami and other
cities, the Freedom Tower is the single most important physical
manifestation of this period of Cold War era politics and the
Cuban exodus experience.
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The amalgamated Creole culture in southern Louisiana includes
influences from the Spanish-speaking Islenos (Canary
Islanders), American Indians, enslaved West Africans, and
French-speaking free people of color from the Caribbean.
In September of 1779, the Spanish Governor of Louisiana, Bernardo
de Galvez, defeated the British at Fort Butte on Bayou Manchac
and then captured Baton Rouge. By 1781, West Florida, including
East Baton Rouge, was under Spanish influence. After the United
States gained control of the Louisiana Territory in 1803, Spanish
Baton Rouge became the only non-American settlement along the
Mississippi River. Around this time, residents from nearby
Galveztown, which the United States controlled, decided to
resettle in Baton Rouge so they could stay on Spanish soil.
The store at Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site is still
in operation. Once inside the masonry post, visitors will find a
sales room, a large storage room, and two office rooms that
housed all of the trading posts records from the time of its
establishment. Today, these rooms house a unique collection of
pioneer artifacts and Navajo art. Behind the trading post stands
the Hubbell family home, which also displays a collection of
Navajo artwork. Hubbells family sold the property to the National
Park Service in 1965.