1. Vocabulary-use 5 words in 5 sentences
Gilded Age
Industry
Entrepreneur
Monopoly
Corporation
Standard Oil
John D Rockefeller
Party Boss
Political machine
Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
Robber Barron
Labor
Immigration
Urbanization
Ellis Island
Angel Island
Child labor
Labor unions (AFL)
Eugene Debs
Samuel Gompers
Haymarket Riots
Pullman strike
Tenement houses

2. The Gilded Age in American History 1865-1896

3. Gild Pronunciation: gild Function: Transition verb
1: to overlay with or as if with a thin covering of gold
2a: to give money to b: to given an attractive but often deceptive appearance to c archaic: to make bloody
Gild-ed adjective

4. Why would an era be referred to as “Gilded?”

5. The Gilded Age A Tale of Today
Book gave name to the era
Time of gaudy excess and a new class of wealth, political corruption and conquest of the West
By Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner

6. Washington Square North, New York City by Fernand Lungren

8. The Gilded Age Impact Railroad building Reconstruction of the South
Industrialization of the United States
Settling of Western Frontier
Immigration (the “New Immigrants”)
Rise of large urban centers (big cities)
Political Corruption

9. Era of the Railroads
Transcontinental Railroad completed on May 10, 1869.
Railroad building triggered the industrial revolution
Railroad building required steel, oil and other resources provided by industry.
Railroads connected the entire nation and eased travel
Aided the economic growth of the West
Railroad building provided employment for new immigrants

10. Railroads Railroads were built by using cheap immigrant labor Irish
Chinese
Railroads were built across Native American ancestral lands

11. Chinese Immigration PS Analysis
Read the primary sources and answer the corresponding questions.
Answer the essay question at the end.
Prepare to present.
Due EOC.

12. Warm Up Use these words in five sentences: John D Rockefeller
Party Boss
Political machine
Tammany Hall/Boss Tweed
Robber Barron
Time: 7 minutes.

13. The Industrialization of America
United States becomes a world industrial power
Rise of dominant railroad, steel and oil industries.
Rise of Titans of Industry
Andrew Carnegie
Leland Stanford
John D. Rockefeller
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Dynamic era of new inventions and commercial products
Light bulb, Kodak camera, typewriter etc.
Thomas Edison

14. The Standard Oil Octopus
John D. Rockefeller’s company becomes a monopoly by destroying all competition and gaining favorable government policies.

15. Industrialization Corrupt business practices
Monopolies destroy competition
Workers wages low
Dangerous working conditions.
Child labor, no restrictions.
Labor Unions emerging, but lacked strength and viewed as radical
Knights of Labor
American Federation of Labor

16. New Immigration
Millions of Europeans and Asians immigrate from 1860s to early 1920s.
Immigrants come to escape poverty, old social orders and religious persecution and to find freedom and opportunity in America.
New immigrants come from regions that had not supplied past immigrants, new cultural traditions added.
America becomes the “Great Melting Pot”

17. The New Immigrants
Settled in ethnic Ghettos and slums in American cities.
Lived in overpopulated tenement houses.
New immigrants worked jobs that paid the lowest wages and did the toughest work.
Nativism reemerged in greater force in America

18. Nativism
The belief that NATIVE born Americans are superior to foreigners.
Racist and xenophobic.
Does this still exist today?

19. Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?
Read the secondary and primary sources.
Answer the corresponding questions.
Due EOC.

20. Warm Up
Are the business men of the Gilded age truly “Captains of Industry” or are they “Robber Barons”? Explain/Justify why.
2-3 sentences

21. Activity Primary Source Analysis
Within your group, analyze the documents.
Fill out the corresponding sheets.

22. Review of Primary Sources
Mullin

23. Exit Slip Read innovation and industry cards and plot the data.
Time: 15 minutes.

24. Warm Up
Labor definitions and phrase analysis
Due EOC.

25. The Growth of the Cities
Cities became centers of American industry
New York
Boston
Detroit
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
America boasted some of the largest cities in the world
Cities became cultural centers.

26. Urbanization Cities were overcrowded People lived in slums
Tenement houses were overcrowded
Unsanitary living conditions
Disease rampant
Crime rampant
Political bosses controlled city politics
City governments were corrupt and mismanaged
Cities were dirty, filthy and trash-infested
Photographs by Jacob Riis, a Danish immigrant who became a reformer through journalism & photojournalism

27. Social Darwinism
Philosophy stated that only the strongest and the fittest would survive and flourish in society, while the weak and unfit should be allowed to die. 
government should not interfere with social ills such as poverty.  Their "law of the jungle" attitude is used to justify their beliefs that humans, like plants and animals, should compete in a struggle to survive.

28. Entrepreneur vs. Philanthropist
Entrepreneur: a person who organizes and operates a business or businesses, taking on greater than normal financial risks in order to do so.
Philanthropist: a person who seeks to promote the welfare of others, especially by the generous donation of money to good causes.

29. Patents vs. Monopolies
Patent: set of exclusive rights granted by the gov to an inventor for a limited period of time in exchange for a the production of that good.
Monopolies: the exclusive possession or control of the supply or trade in a commodity or service

38. 2 paragraph essay and labor terms
Use source analysis packet.
Citing at least 4 of the sources, answer the following question in 2 paragraphs:
“What factors helped promote America’s huge industrial growth during the period from 1860 to 1900?”
Due EOC.
Complete the labor union definitions and questions.

39. Vocabulary
Key Content Terms: laissez-faire, social Darwinism, Sherman Antitrust Act, capitalism.
Social Studies Terms: capital, patents, monopoly, trust, entrepreneur, philanthropist

40. The Rise of Industry
Mullin

41. Bessemer Process
The first inexpensive industrial process for the mass-production of steel.
Named after its inventor.

42. Horizontal Integration vs. Vertical Integration
Horizontal Integration: The combining of many firms engaged in the same type of business into one large corporation
Vertical Integration: A single company owns and controls the entire process from raw materials to the manufacture and sale of the finished product

43. Laissez-faire
A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.

44. Sherman Antitrust Act
First federal action against monopolies, it was signed into law and was extensively used by Theodore Roosevelt for trust-busting
A Trust is an entity created to hold assets for the benefit of certain persons or entities, with a trustee managing the trust (and often holding title on behalf of the trust).

45. Capitalism vs. Capital
Capitalism: an economic system in which individuals and corporations, not the government, own production and profit.
Strict noninterference of the government in business affairs.
Capital: buildings, machinery, tools, and other goods that create products or services for the people.

46. Activity Complete Industrial Revolution fill in the blank.
Complete political cartoon analysis.
Due EOC

47. Warm Up Use the following words in five sentences.
capital, patents, monopoly, trust, and entrepreneur.

48. New Growth
Mullin

49. Settlement of the West
Railroad building connects farmers in West with Eastern markets
Land availability on the Great Plains for farming
Cattle ranching and mining industries thrive in the West
Growth of Western cities.
Golden Age of the Cowboy

50. Homestead Act
A special act of Congress (1862) that made public lands in the West available to settlers without payment, usually in lots of 160 acres, to be used as farms.

51. Dawes Act
Adopted by Congress in 1887, authorized the President of the United States to survey American Indian tribal land and divide it into allotments for individual Indians.
Those who accepted allotments and lived separately from the tribe would be granted United States citizenship.

52. “Move On!”
Has the native American no rights that the naturalized American is bound to respect?

53. Conquering the Western Frontier
Seizing lands from Native Americans;
Forcing Indians onto reservations; Indian Wars
Railroad scheme to possess the best available lands;
Railroads take advantage of farmers & set high shipping rates.

54. Conquering the Western Frontier.
Farmers took large acreages of land to produce enough crop to make a profit; Lands of Great Plains difficult to farm; farmers interests not addressed by the government.
Conflict between farmers and ranchers over land use.
Lawlessness throughout.
Cattle & Mining boom towns

55. Activity Read and analyze the two primary sources about the Dawes Act.
Answer the corresponding questions.
Answer the discussion questions in complete sentences.
Due EOC.

56. Activity Read and answer the Homestead Steel Crisis.
Answer your role as a union leader.
Then in two paragraphs, research why Walmart is anti-union. Do you think this is good or bad? Explain why.

57. Warm Up
Define tenement houses? What is the equivalent of modern day tenement houses present today?
What is the populism?
What is the Pullman Strike?
Who is Eugene Debs?

58. Conclusion of the Gilded Age
Mullin

59. Politics in the Gilded Age
Age of Republican presidents
One Democrat, twice removed. Grover Cleveland.
Political promise for African Americans
Farmers seeking a voice in the political system
National Grange & Populists
Government aid to railroad and industrial growth
Key issues were monetary system, the tariff and civil service reform.

60. The “forgettable” presidents & political corruption
Ineffective presidential leadership
Political corruption and scandals
Era of Good Stealings
Government ties to big business
No regulation of business practices
Kickbacks to political officials
Failure to secure goals of reconstruction
Treatment of Native Americans
Farm protest from South and West fail to unite
Emergence and end of Populism

61. Impact of the Gilded Age on United States History

62. Prepared the United States for its future as an imperial power.

63. Settlement of the West and the closing of the frontier, turned the attention of the nation to newer frontiers- overseas territories.

64. Influx of new immigrants added new ingredients into American culture.

65. The descendants of these new immigrants would be future leaders and major personalities in the United States.

66. The growth of American industry would help make the United States a global industrial power and further the engine of economic progress of the 20th century.

67. The corrupt business and political practices of the era called for reform.

68. The discrimination against African Americans, Native Americans, new immigrants, and women lead to a greater call for civil rights protections.

69. The Gilded Age set the stage for the Emergence of Modern America.

70. The Gilded Age laid the foundation for the United States of the 20th Century, a SUPERPOWER!

71. PS Analysis Read the PS about the Pullman Strike.
Answer the corresponding questions.
Reflect how the strike is itself a reflection of the untamed beast of big businesses of the Gilded Age.
Prepare to present.
Due EOC.

72. Activity and Essay List the pros and cons of the Gilded Age.
Essay: Was the development of the Gilded Age good for the United States? Explain why/why not.
5 PARAGRAPHS.
GIVE SPECIFIC EVIDENCE
Use your notes.

73. Today
The test is THIS WEDNESDAY and that it will cover both Reconstruction and the Gilded Age.
Test will consist of multiple choice, matching, and short answer.
For short answers, you must be thoughtful and specific. Include at least TWO facts/evidence to support your answers.
Students are to define terms and answer at least 2 essay questions by the end of class.