ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhat were the

Changing Patterns in

Immigration, Farming and Industry that

Created a Wider Gulf

Between the Rich and Poor in American

Society?

Social Darwinism

Great Wealth in the Midst of Poverty

Cornelius Vanderbilt’s Summer “Cottage” – “The Breakers”

The Music Room at “The Breakers” in Newport, Rhode Island

How the Other Half Lived

How the Other Half Lived

Emerging Patterns in the Gilded Age

•Labor Unions – the Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor

•Women and Children Enter the Workforce

•The South and the Rise of Industry – James Buchanan Duke

•Rags to Riches

•Gospel of Wealth

•Formula for Success: The Man, the Organization, the Product

•The Dark Side, the Homestead Strike

Gilded Age Icon Andrew Carnegie

The Disappearance of the Family Farm

•The Homestead Act

•Expensive New Machinery

•The Agrarian Myth

Immigration

Patterns•The Plight of Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

•Ethnic Homesteads in Urban America

•Muckraking Journalists Bring a Measure of Reform

Political Patterns in the Gilded Age

•The Cities: Thomas Nast and the Tweed Ring

•The Nation: “Waving the Bloody Shirt”

•Grover Cleveland and the Mugwumps

Film Segments – Remember to Keep them Short,

Relevant, and Part of Your Assessment

• PBS, “America 1900” – Segments on Urbanization, and Immigration

• History Channel, “America: The Story of Us” “Boom”

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhat were the

Changing Patterns in

Immigration, Farming and Industry that

Created a Wider Gulf

Between the Rich and Poor in American

Society?