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The Gilded Age
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1858
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1914
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19th Century - 20th Century
People to Know
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Vocabulary
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Peardeck™
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Unit Guide
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KEY EVENTS
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The United States industrialized quickly as America seemed to be entering a Golden Age along with the nations of Europe. From innovations in technology to the innovations of business, America will rise as an industrial power in the world.
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Vocabulary - Gilded Age, corporations, share/stock, dividends, horizontal integration, vertical integration, capitalist, monopoly, trusts, holding company, "Robber Barons", philanthropists Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, George Westinghouse, Wright Brothers, Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan
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Millions of immigrants flood to the shores of the United States in search of work and a better life. In America, they find what they seek while providing the United States the workforce it needed to industrialize quickly.
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Vocabulary - "New Immigrants", Ellis and Angel Island, tenements apartments, settlement houses, ethnic neighborhoods/islands, "melting pot", nativism Jane Addams
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While America seemed to be in a Golden Age, underneath swelled a network of corruption that infected politics and industry in cities across the country. Some politicians call for reforms to deal with these injustices while workers unit.
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Vocabulary - political machines, Pendleton Act, mugwumps, Sherman Antitrust Act, union, yellow-dog contract, mediation/arbitration, strike-breaker (scab), blacklist, Great Strike of 1877, Knights of Labor, American Federation of Labor, socialism, injunction Thomas Nast, Grover Cleveland, Eugene V. Debs
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