Unit 2 Syllabus: The Gilded Age
This is the rough outline of unit 2. Make a note in your planners about major quizzes, tests, and projects. It is possible that some of
these dates might change, but only by a day or two.
Week 1
Dates
Topic Covered in Class
Homework
Friday, 9/18/2015
The Rise of Corporations
Read pages 516-525
Monday, 9/21/15
Robber Barons and the Gospel of Wealth
Read pages 525-530
Tuesday, 9/22/15
Rise of Unions and Major Strikes
Read pages 531-535
Wednesday, 9/23/15
Immigration: Welcome to America
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Thursday, 9/24/15
Nativism and Immigrant Backlash
Take Home Quiz
Friday, 9/25/15
Review DBQ Project for Next Week (9/29)
Read pages 578-586 and
prepare for DBQ
Week 2
Dates
Monday, 9/28
Topic Covered in Class
Gilded Age Politics and Tammany Hall
Homework
Prepare for tomorrow’s DBQ
and Read pages 586-596 for Wed.
Tuesday, 9/29
Write DBQ in Class
Read pages 586-596 for Wed.
Wednesday, 9/30
Populist Politics
Read pages 596-599
Thursday, 10/1
The Election of 1896 and the Cross of Gold
Study for tomorrow’s quiz
Friday, 10/2
Quiz: Gilded Age Politics
Study for Tuesday’s Test
Week 3
Dates
Monday, 10/5
Topic Covered in Class
Review for Unit 2 Test
Homework
Study for tomorrow’s test
Tuesday, 10/6
Test: The Gilded Age
Read pages 639-644
Unit 2 Key Terms – The Gilded Age
Industrialization
1. Gilded Age
2. Bessemer Process
3. New Technology
4. Great Railway Strike of 1877
5. Haymarket Square Bombing
6. Homestead Strike
7. Pullman Rail Car Strike
8. Trusts
9. Command Economy
10. Free Market Economy
11. Mixed Economy
12. Competition
13. Market
14. Demand
15. Consumers
16. Corporations
17. Gospel of Wealth
18. Social Darwinism
19. Vertical Integration
20. Horizontal Integration
21. Strike
22. Yellow Dog Contracts
23. Collective Bargaining
24. American Federation of Labor
25. Knights of Labor
26. “Scabs” (strike-breakers)
27. Unions
28. Socialism
29. Laissez faire economics
30. Capitalism
31. Thomas Edison
32. Robber Barons
33. Andrew Carnegie
34. John D. Rockefeller
35. James B. Duke
36. JP Morgan
37. Terence Powderly
38. Samuel Gompers
39. Eugene Debs
Immigration and Urbanization
1. “New” Immigrants
2. “Old” Immigrants
3. Great Migration
4. Nativists
5. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1884
6. Urbanization
7. Streetcars
8. Settlement Houses
9. Tenements
10. Hull House
11. Urbanization
12. Streetcars
13. Skyscrapers
14. Jane Addams
Gilded Age Politics
1. Panic of 1893
2. Panic of 1873
3. Interstate Commerce Act 1887
4. Interstate Commerce Commission
5. Sherman Anti-Trust Act 1890
6. Pendleton Civil Service Act
7. Bimetallism
8. Gold Standard
9. Greenbacks
10. Third Parties
11. Populism
12. Populist Party
13. Omaha Platform
14. The Grange Movement
15. Political Machines
16. Political Boss
17. Patronage (Spoils System)
18. Grover Cleveland
19. Chester Arthur
20. William McKinley
21. William Jennings Bryan
22. “Cross of Gold” Speech