1. Intro to the gilded age

2. Test Analysis

3. Where are we now?
Hayes wins the presidency because he promises to end Reconstruction
Reconstruction was forced acceptance of freed slaves, imposed by the North on the South
Food for Thought: should we force people to be moral?

4. “Gilded” Age Gilded- to be coated in gold
America was starting to boom, people were getting rich, industry was thriving
The working class was being taken advantage of, immigrants were treated poorly, wealth wasn’t spread out

5. Railroads!

6. The Pacific Railway Act
Provided construction of a transcontinental railroad by two corporations
Union Pacific and Central Pacific
Encouraged rapid construction, the Government offered each company land along its path
A competition developed as each raced to obtain as much land as possible!

7. Union Pacific Led by Grenville Dodge
Started westward from Omaha, Nebraska in 1865
Laid 1,086 miles of rails
Workers included: Civil War vets, Irish immigrants, miners, farmers, cooks, adventurers, and ex-convicts – at the height of the project they employed 10,000 workers
Faced blizzards in the mountains, blistering heat in the summer and angry Natives

8. Central Pacific Directed by Theodore Judah
Started on the west coast heading east
Hired about 10,000 Chinese workers and paid them $1.00 a day
All equipment was shipped from the Eastern United States
Laid 688 miles

9. More Fun Facts Took 4 years to complete
May 10, 1869 – Promontory Summit, Utah – where the two companies met and drove in the last spike! Huge celebration!
Benefits:  Increased other industries such as steel, iron, and coal
West bursts in population (formally 100 days turned into 6-8 days of travel time)
The Beginning of the Industrial period

10. What are the effects of the transcontinental railroad being completed?
Westward movement, population centers along lines, faster trade, more industrialization

11. Switching Tracks
See what I did there?

12. The AFHS Writing rubric
We will be focusing on one section of the rubric per unit for our first few units.
Our first section is… Evidence!

13. Your Deepest darkest questions
What is evidence (far left side)?
What do I need to do to score high on evidence?
Rubric
You need to know if the evidence supports your prompt.
When should I be doing this?
What are the steps of historical argumentation?

14. Quote Activity
Around the room are quotes from people describing the Gilded Age. You need to organize that evidence into three “bins” – supports, refutes, and irrelevant. The prompt is “The Gilded Age was a good time to be an average American”

15. Journal
Why was the Gilded Age called the “Gilded Age?”