U.S. History Unit 1:
The Gilded Age: From Agrarian to Industrial Power
1877-1918 (Immigration, Minority Rights, American Indians, The West)
Essential Questions:
- How did the migration of Europeans and Asians affect the
face of America? How did it affect the
development of industrialism in the U.S.?
- Socially, what was happening in America between 1877 and 1918 and how was this
related to the change in from agrarian to industrial power?
- How did minorities gain and lose rights during this period?
- Trace the movement form the traditional aspects of our culture to the turn of
the Century aspects of culture?
Chapters:
5, 7, (8-2,3,4), 9-2
Immigration
Segregation and Discrimination
Angel Island
Poll Tax
Ellis Island
Jim Crow Laws
Assimilation
segregation
Nativism
Plessy v. Ferguson
Urbanization
debt peonage
Tenements
Booker T. Washington
Tuskegee Institute
W.E.B. Dubois
Suffrage
Susan B. Anthony
19th Amendment
The West
Culture
Trans Continental Railroad
Kindergarten
Great Plains
High School
Assimilation
Vaudeville
Dawes Act
Joseph Pulitzer
Homestead Act
William Randolph Hurst
Soddy
Mark Twain
Bonanza Farms
Mass Circulation
Morrill Act
Department Stores
Custer’s Last Stand
Chain Stores
Wounded Knee
Sand Creek Massacre
Exodusters
