Period 6: 1865-1898 - The West, Industry, and Empire
Content Block Activity Files
Click on the links below to download and complete activities:
- Scored Discussion #2 Readings:
- Selections from Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz and Guenter Lewy on the question of whether treatment of Native Americans by the United States should be termed genocide.
- Directions for the required pre-writing (slightly different than last time since this one has 2 readings)
- Opportunity and Oppression readings
- Populism Readings:
- Great Strikes Chart and Readings: Haymarket, Homestead, Lawrence, Pullman, Railroad
- The Anti-Suffragists documents
- Montana Newspaper Contextualization PDF version Interactive Version
- Unit Theme Summary form
Skills Activity Files
| gilded_age_political_cartoons.pdf |
| gilded_age_dbq_practice.pdf |
| populism_and_the_election_of_1896_student_reading.pdf |
| the_1898_north_carolina_fusion_ticket.pdf |
| turner_versus_limerick_documents.pdf |
| gilded_age_strikes_sheg_readings.docx |
| political_bosses_sheg_docs.pdf |
Document Recitation Block Files
| fourth_of_july_-_going_to_the_source.pdf |
| accounts_of_the_battle_of_wounded_knee_ps.pdf |
| cross_of_gold_speech.pdf |
| social_darwinism.pdf |
| carnegie_-_gospel_of_wealth.pdf |
| gilded_age_docs.pdf |
Old PowerPoints for Reference
| 1_gilded_age_-_the_west_student_edition.ppt |
| 1_gilded_age--industrialization_and_big_business_student.pptx |
| 3_gilded_age--immigration_and_urbanization.ppt |
| the_devils_rope_barbed_wire_history.pptx |
| populism_rise_and_fall_sheg.pptx |
| gilded_age_big_picture_cr.pptx |
Targeted Standards
NAT-4.0 Analyze relationships among different regional, social, ethnic, and racial groups, and explain how these groups’ experiences have related to U.S. national identity.
POL-1.0 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
POL-2.0 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society and institutions.
WXT-2.0 Explain how patterns of exchange, markets, and private enterprise have developed, and analyze ways that governments have responded to economic issues.
WXT-3.0 Analyze how technological innovation has affected economic development and society.
POL-1.0 Explain how and why political ideas, beliefs, institutions, party systems, and alignments have developed and changed.
POL-2.0 Explain how popular movements, reform efforts, and activist groups have sought to change American society and institutions.
WXT-2.0 Explain how patterns of exchange, markets, and private enterprise have developed, and analyze ways that governments have responded to economic issues.
WXT-3.0 Analyze how technological innovation has affected economic development and society.