Picture Analysis of Gilded Age Topics + Crash Course on Rise of Big Business + Tom Sawyer

Today the 6th & 7th Graders:

• Applied what they learned in A Brief Summary of the Gilded Age by labelling each item in the above collagethat illustrated something mentioned in the Brief Summary
• Watched, pausing to discuss, the Crash Course video on the Gilded Age called The Industrial Economy
• Began reading Chapter 1 of Mark Twain's Tom Sawyer - Project Gutenberg

Assignments for Wednesday

1. Finish the Picture Analysis of Topics found in A Brief Summary of the Gilded Age
2. Finish reading Ch. 1 of Tom Sawyer and come to class prepared to discuss it.

For Future Reference:

Crash Course Videos-The Gilded Age

Westward Expansion
Growth, Cities, & Immigration
Gilded Age Politics

Online Textbook-Gilded Age Pages

1. The Gilded Age
1. Binding the Nation by Rail
2. The New Tycoons: John D. Rockefeller
3. The New Tycoons: Andrew Carnegie
4. The New Tycoons: J. Pierpont Morgan
5. New Attitudes Toward Wealth
6. Politics of the Gilded Age
2. Organized Labor
1. The Great Upheaval
2. Labor vs. Management
3. Early National Organizations
4. American Federation of Labor
5. Eugene V. Debs and American Socialism
3. From the Countryside to the City
1. The Glamour of American Cities
2. The Underside of Urban Life
3. The Rush of Immigrants
4. Corruption Runs Wild
5. Religious Revival: The "Social Gospel"
6. Artistic and Literary Trends
4. New Dimensions in Everyday Life
1. Education
2. Sports and Leisure
3. Women in the Gilded Age
4. Victorian Values in a New Age
5. The Print Revolution
5. Closing the Frontier
1. The Massacre at Sand Creek
2. Custer's Last Stand
3. The End of Resistance
4. Life on the Reservations
5. The Wounded Knee Massacre
6. Western Folkways
1. The Mining Boom
2. The Ways of the Cowboy
3. Life on the Farm
4. The Growth of Populism
5. The Election of 1896