College Board Key Concepts
AP Exam Weight: 10 - 17%
6.1 Contextualizing Period 6
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/Migration in the Gilded Age
6.9 Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
6.10 Development of the Middle Class6.11 Reform in the Gilded Age
6.12 Controversies over role of Government in Gilded Age
6.13 Politics in the Gilded Age
6.14 Continuity /Change in Period 6
Period 6 Power Point Presentation(s)
Conquest of the American West and the New South
The Gilded Age
Period 6 Essentials
Key Concept 6.1: 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 dramatic social and cultural change.
Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.
AMSCO Reading Guides
The Rise of Industrial America, 1865 - 1900
The Last West and the New South, 1865 - 1900
The Growth of Cities and American Culture, 1865 - 1900
The Politics of the Gilded Age, 1877 - 1900
Period 6 Exam Review Materials
Heimler's History Period 6 Review 1
Heimler's History Period 6 Review 2
Heimler's History Period 6 Review 3
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