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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events

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The Gilded Age

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1914
19th Century - 20th Century
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People to Know
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Peardeck™
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Unit Guide


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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Golden Age of Innovation
  • monopolies
  • trusts
  • Robber Barons
  • Social Darwinism
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INDUSTRIAL AMERICAN CAPITALISM

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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KEY EVENTS
  • ​Ellis Island
  • Angel Island
  • ethnic neighborhoods
  • New York City
  • nativism
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IMMIGRATION: COMING TO AMERICA

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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KEY EVENTS
  • ​political machines
  • political corruption
  • Sherman Antitrust Act
  • unions and organized labor
  • strikes
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CORRUPTION AND UNIONS

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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  • American History
    • American History I >
      • Unit 1 - Worlds Collide
      • Unit 2 - Adolescent Colonies
      • Unit 3 - Seeds of Rebellion
      • Unit 4 - Revolutionary America
      • Unit 5 - The New Nation
      • Unit 6 - Expansion and Reform
      • Unit 7 - Crisis, Civil War, and Reconstruction
      • Unit 8 - The Great West
    • American History II >
      • Unit 9 - The Gilded Age
      • Unit 10 - The Progressive Era
      • Unit 11 - The American Empire
      • Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression
      • Unit 13 - World War II
      • Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
      • Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
      • Unit 16 - Modern America
  • World History
    • Early History >
      • Unit I - Origins
      • Unit II - Ancient Greece
      • Unit III - Rise and Fall of Rome
      • Unit IV - The Age of Faith
      • Unit V - Late Medieval World
      • Unit VI - Renaissance and Discovery
    • Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Crisis of Faith
      • Unit VIII - Revolutionary World
      • Unit IX - Industrial Imperialism
      • Unit X - The Great War
      • Unit XI - World War II
      • Unit XII - Cold War & Globalization
  • AP European History
    • Early Modern History >
      • Unit I - The Rise of Europe
      • Unit II - Rebirth and Exploration
      • Unit III - A Fractured Faith
      • Unit IV - A Question of Sovereignty
      • Unit V - A Shifting Society
      • Unit VI - Revolution
    • Late Modern History >
      • Unit VII - Political Turmoil
      • Unit VIII - Rise of the Nation-State
      • Unit IX - Forging the Modern Era
      • Unit X - Imperialism and the Great War
      • Unit XI - Global Conflicts
      • Unit XII - The Long Peace
  • Current Events