Unit 6: The Gilded Age (1865-1898)

The end of the Civil War in 1865 to the start of the Spanish-American War in 1898 serve as a convenient time frame for Period 6, which is focused on the fast-paced economic and urban development of the United States. During this period, the nation transformed from a rural agrarian to an increasingly urbanized society, resulting in significant social, economic, political, and environmental changes. Massive migrations and the emergence of an industrial culture led to greater opportunities as well as restrictions and prejudices towards immigrants, minorities, and women. New political, cultural, and intellectual movements attempted to address growing economic disparities. As a result, the United States emerged as the largest economy in the world and a potential international power.

Period 6 Key Concepts:

Key Concept 6.1: The technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.

Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused drastic social and cultural changes.

Key Concept 6:3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.

Period 6 Topics:

6.1 Contextualization

6.2 Westward Expansion: Economic Development

6.3 Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development

6.4 The "New South"

6.5 Technological Innovation

6.6 The Rise of Industrial Capitalism

6.7 Labor in the Gilded Age

6.8 Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age

6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age

6.10 Development of the Middle Class

6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age

6.12 Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age

6.13: Politics in the Gilded Age

Period 6/Unit 6 Calendar

Period Packet 6 (Chapters 16-19)

Amsco AP United States History (Review Book ~ Period 6) Chapter 16, Chapter 17, Chapter 18, Chapter 19

(Amsco Chapters for this Unit do not align perfectly with Brinkley textbook chapters)

(Including Amsco practice Multiple Choice, SAQ, LEQ, DBQ Questions and Answers; Amsco Answers

Daily Learning Activities:

Tuesday, January 7 (Contextualization, The New South; Second Westward Expansion)

HW: Chapter 17 Text Questions/Answers (due Monday, January 13)

Wednesday, January 8 (The New South; Second Westward Expansion)

HW: Chapter 17 Text Questions/Answers (due Monday, January 13)

Thursday, January 9 (Second Westward Expansion: Pull Factors)

  • Chapter 16 group "Talk Through" (#3, 4, 5, & 8) and Powerpoint
  • Frederick Jackson Turner primary source
  • Period 6 SAQ: "How To"/Passage-based SAQ (Summarize Turner and Limerick excerpts; complete b. for Turner (i.e. list/explain as many "historical events or developments" as you can in support of Turner's argument).

HW: (1) Period 6 SAQ (see above) (due Friday, 1/10) (2) Chapter 17 Text Questions/Answers (due Monday, January 13)

Friday, January 10 (Conflicts during the Second Movement West)

  • Chapter 16 #1 and Powerpoint
  • Video "500 Nations: Attack on Cultures" (worksheet here)
  • SAQ: Complete c. (i.e. list/explain as many "historical events or developments" as you can in support of Limericks's argument) and write a.

HW: Chapter 17 Text Questions/Answers (due Monday, January 13)

Monday, January 13 (Pros and Cons of Business Consolidation)

  • T-chart notes on Pros and Cons of Business Consolidation (using Powerpoint and text pg.s 480-481)
  • Political Cartoon Analysis (P.O.V. + evidence from cartoons)

Chapter 18 Text Questions/Answers (due Tuesday, January 21)

Tuesday, January 14/Wednesday, January 15 (Social Darwinism + Gospel of Wealth meet Labor Concerns)

(1) Complete Carnegie/Workingman primary document guided questions worksheet (due next class) (2) Chapter 18 Text Questions/Answers (due Tuesday, January 21)

Thursday, January 16/Friday January 17 (The Labor Movement) . . . Guest Speaker on Japanese-American Internment

  • Table Group Discussion: "A Workingman's Prayer"
  • Labor Movement Tasks: Matching, Quote Analysis, Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) reading questions (worksheet here)

HW: (1) Chapter 18 Text Questions/Answers (due Tuesday, January 21) (2) Chapter 19 Text Questions/Answers (due Friday, January 24)

Tuesday, January 21/Wednesday, January 22 (Labor, Immigration, and Urbanization)

HW: Chapter 19 Text Questions/Answers (due Friday, January 24)

Thursday, January 23 (Urbanization and Political Machines)

HW: (1) Chapter 19 Text Questions/Answers (due Friday, January 24 or Monday, January 27) (2) Period 6 Content Test (Monday, January 27) (3) Period 6 Stimulus Test and Period 6 SAQ due (Tuesday, Jan.28/Wed. Jan. 29)

Friday, January 24 (Challenges to Laissez-fair government: Labor Unions and Populism)

HW: HW: (1) Chapter 19 Text Questions/Answers (due Friday, January 24 or Monday, January 27) (2) Period 6 Content Test (Monday, January 27) (3) Period 6 Stimulus Test and Period 6 SAQ due (Tuesday, Jan.28/Wed. Jan. 29)

Monday, January 27

  • Content Test

(1) Period 6 Stimulus Test (2) Period 6 SAQ due (Tuesday, Jan.28/Wed. Jan. 29)

Tuesday, January 28/Wednesday, January 29

  • Stimulus Test
  • Hand in Period 6 SAQ