The Gilded Age

Essential Question:

How did the rapid industrialization, technological advancements, and societal changes during the Gilded Age shape the economic landscape and social fabric of the United States?

Portrait of a Graduate:

Adaptive Perseverance

Responsibility

Critical Thinking

Communication Responsibility

Global Citizenship

Learner’s Mindset

Collaboration

Inquiry Question:

How did the rise of monopolies and trusts during the Gilded Age affect the economy and the average American worker?

2. Inquiry Question:

In what ways did technological innovations of the Gilded Age contribute to urbanization and the growth of cities, and what challenges did this present?

3. Inquiry Question:

How did the social and political movements of the Gilded Age, such as labor unions and women's suffrage, emerge in response to the era's economic inequalities and social disparities?

Student Outcomes:

Students will evaluate the impact of monopolies and trusts on the economy and workers, developing arguments on the necessity of regulation based on historical case studies.

2. Student Outcomes:

Outcome for technological innovations and urban growth: Students will assess the effects of technological advancements on urbanization, examining the challenges and opportunities cities faced during the Gilded Age through historical examples and urban planning documents.

3. Student Outcomes:

Outcome for social and political movements: Students will investigate key social and political movements of the Gilded Age, such as labor unions and women's suffrage, analyzing their causes, tactics, successes, and failures through primary source documents and historical analysis.

Skills Demonstrated:

Analyzing visual sources
Reading Maps
Explaining causation and change over time
Supporting claims with evidence and reasoning.
Reading primary sources and examining them for author, place and time, prior knowledge, audience, reason for writing, tone and significance.
Identifying and comparing the contrasting claims of historians.

Standards:

SS:HI:12:3.1: Evaluate how individuals have developed ideas that have profoundly affected American life.

SS:HI:12:5.1: Explore the tensions between the values of unity and pluralism in defining our national identity.

Resources:

[Our Hidden Google Drive Resource link]

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