southerner and the gilded age

Q1:Compare and contrast the tactics used by the white southerners to regain their power after the civil war, especially the role played by the new departure democrats, with the tactics used by african-americans to increase their power during the cold war era.
Q2:The gilded age produced an extreme concentration of economic and political power in a few hands. Describe how the rail roads, morgan, carnegie, and rockefeller amassed great economic power. What was the economic philosophy of ”social darwinism”? What was the message of the horatio alger stories?