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Unit 7: The Gilded Age

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Lessons

  • Plains Indians Wars
  • Settlement of the West
  • Robber Barons of the Industrial Age
  • Immigration & Urbanization
  • Corruption & Political Paralysis
  • New South or Nadir?
  • Gilded Age Arts

Unit 7 Study Guide

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American Pageant

  • Chapter 23 - Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 24 - Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 25 - America Moves to the City, 1865-1900 (Course Notes)
  • Chapter 26 - The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896 (Course Notes)
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Essential Questions

  • What motivated the United States to exert control over Native American lands in the west?
  • How did federal government policies affect the lives of Native Americans in the 19th century?
  • What were the various motivations of different groups of settlers in the west?
  • How did new inventions and innovations impact the economy of the west?
  • How did settlers respond to and transform the environment of the west?
  • How did new inventions and innovations encourage industrial growth?
  • How did industrial leaders amass and wield power?
  • What was the role of the federal government in encouraging the growth and regulating the practices of big business?
  • What were the various governmental and social reactions to the influx of immigrants?
  • To what extent did immigrants retain their traditions, assimilate, and transform American culture itself?
  • Why was the period of the late 1800s nicknamed the "Gilded Age" and the "Era of Good Stealings"?
  • What factors led to the development and reform of political machines and the spoils system?
  • Why did meaningful reform prove difficult to accomplish during the Gilded Age?
  • How was the southern economy transformed in the decades following the Civil War?
  • How and why were African Americans denied the full rights guaranteed to them under the post-Civil War amendments?
  • How did African American leaders respond to the challenges of racial discrimination?
  • How did new cultural and intellectual movements both buttress and challenge the social order of the Gilded Age?
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Unit Project

Free Response Question (FRQ)
  • For whom and to what extent was the west a land of opportunity in the period from 1865 to 1890?
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