This practice exercise from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The responses to mass immigration to the United States during the Gilded Age is reviewed in this resource. This resource is designed as a review for...

A study guide for an American History course that explores trends and issues from the Gilded Age. The guide has many links to key resources and primary source materials, as well as questions for further study or discussion.

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and the Gilded Ages are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

This is a collection of 8 Grade-Leveled texts (5-12) on the topic "The Gilded Age." Mark Twain named 1870-1900 "The Gilded Age" in hopes of capturing how the era of serious social problems was veiled by a thin layer of gold. While robber...

Look in depth at the Gilded Age of history in the United States. Find resources enhancing lessons of immigration, industrialization, railroads, Native Americans, and politics.

Discusses Social Darwinism and the negative repercussions it had on society during the Gilded Age. Includes questions for students at end.

This unit practice test from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Western expansion, the Gilded Age, and the "New South" are components of this unit test. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

A quick comprehension check over immigration and migration in the Gilded Age.

1896, A Website for Political Cartoons provides a site from the collection of information concerning the Election of 1896, "New Immigrants" give us a view of immigration from a political standpoint.

11-question multiple choice quiz is immediately scored and covers events happening during the Gilded Age.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This resource presents a lesson plan about immigration that uses photographs as primary sources.

Discusses the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 and how these ended, as well as responses of the federal government to the labor movement. Includes questions for students at end.

These are study notes for key points when learning about the industrialization of America during the Gilded Age. Looks at causes and consequences of the First and Second Industrial Revolutions, the impact of rapid urbanization, and the...

The roles available to women increased during the urbanization of America. Find out how the women's sphere of the home expanded into the community. See what new jobs were availabe to single, middle-class women, and read about how...

This informational text discusses the new immigration, from the beginning of the Gilded Age of economic growth in the 1870s to the anti-immigration policies put in place during the 1920s. A specific purpose for reading and vocabulary...

This extensive learning module examines the impact of the Gilded Age upon new cultural and intellectual movements, expansion of foreign trade, and political debates over economic and social policies, as well as the impact of the rise of...

This lesson examines seven Lewis Hine photographs of recently-arrived immigrants at Ellis Island.

From The Brown Quaterly (1997) an article describing the role of the Chinese immigrant in building the railroad. Includes images of the Chinese railroad workers. (PDF - scroll down to page 7)

[Free Registration/Login Required] A lesson plan about Norwegian immigrantion to the United States.

A timeline that lists major events in culture, military, industry, and politics across three-quarters of a century.

Eighteen primary sources-historical documents, literary texts, and visual images-that explore the industrial, racial, and technological progress of the late-nineteenth century.

Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.

A story of the rise, the challenges, and the alienation experienced by one Chinese immigrant in America. Questions for discussion included.

Discusses the conflict with Mexican American and Chinese groups as white settlers pushed westward in the nineteenth century. Explains what brought so many Chinese immigrants to America and the roadblocks and discrimination that they had...