1. ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American Society?

2. Social Darwinism

3. Great Wealth in the Midst of Poverty Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Summer “Cottage” – “The Breakers” The Music Room at “The Breakers” in Newport, Rhode Island

4. How the Other Half Lived

6. Emerging Patterns in the Gilded Age Labor Unions – the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor Women and Children Enter the Workforce The South and the Rise of Industry – James Buchanan Duke

7. Rags to Riches Gospel of Wealth Formula for Success: The Man, the Organization, the Product The Dark Side, the Homestead Strike Gilded Age Icon Andrew Carnegie

8. The Disappearance of the Family Farm The Homestead Act Expensive New Machinery The Agrarian Myth

9. Immigration Patterns The Plight of Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe Ethnic Homesteads in Urban America Muckraking Journalists Bring a Measure of Reform

10. Political Patterns in the Gilded Age The Cities: Thomas Nast and the Tweed Ring The Nation: “Waving the Bloody Shirt” Grover Cleveland and the Mugwumps

11. Film Segments – Remember to Keep them Short, Relevant, and Part of Your Assessment PBS, “America 1900” – Segments on Urbanization, and Immigration History Channel, “America: The Story of Us” “Boom”

12. ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American Society?