Period 6: 1865-1898

Chapter 16: The Conquest of the Far West

Chapter 17: Industrial Supremacy

Chapter 18: The Age of the City

Key Concepts:

1. Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.
2. The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.
3. The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.

Learning Targets:

1. I can analyze how technological innovation has affected economic development and society.
2. I can analyze how a variety of perspectives on the economy and labor developed during a time of financial panics and downturns.
3. I can explain how different beliefs about the federal government’s role in U.S. social and economic life have affected political debates and policies.
4. I can explain the causes of migration to the United States and analyze immigration’s effects on U.S. society.
5. I can interpret to what extend new cultural and intellectual movements buttressed and/or challenged the social order of the Gilded Age.
6. I can explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.

Resources and Assignments:

• Transcontinental Railroad Docudrama
• Compare and Contrast: Market Revolution and Industrial Revolution
• Immigration Journal
• Labor Strikes and Labor Unions
• Politics in the Gilded Age