Gilded Age & Progressive Era

Four introductory vocabulary routines to introduce content and concepts.  

Students review vocabulary and content using a mad-libs style reading worksheet. 

Teachers can use this chart to review relevant unit vocabulary while teaching the unit.

Full Unit Chart with key terms

Students will use a durable learning routine, images draw you in, to think conceptually about unit themes and essential questions.  

Students will compare and contrast three maps to analyze the impact of railroads on the United States after the Civil War.  

Students will examine graphs detailing various aspects of the Gilded Age to make claims about changes in American population and economy.  

Differentiated version of Gilded Age Graphs Curricular Resource 

Students will study how technology, natural resources, and transportation fueled the post-civil war industrial revolution by completing a graphic organizer and responding to a prompt.   

Students will examine the various causes and effects of industrialization between 1870 - 1910 through group work. 

Analysis: Students will compare and contrast  the Haymarket Riot, the Homestead Strike, the Pullman Strike, and the Ludlow Massacre.  

Students will compare and contrast newspaper accounts of the Haymarket Riot and Pullman Strike.  

Students will compare and contrast newspaper accounts of the Haymarket Riot and the Pullman Strike. 

Students will examine primary and secondary source documents to analyze the cause and effect relationship between immigration and urbanization in the gilded age.  

Students will compare and contrast a primary (photograph) and secondary (poem) source to evaluate immigrant experiences upon arrival in America during the gilded age.  

Students will use the evidence gathered from the primary and secondary sources to draft an essay describing the Gilded Age businessman.

Students will analyze various political cartoons from the gilded age, learning to use a cartoon analysis protocol that can be applied to any political cartoon or image.  

Students will analyze a primary source document, view a video clip, and analyze a second primary source document to learn about causes of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire.  

Students will analyze social and federal reforms of the Progressive Era, focusing on cause and effect.  Students will complete a graphic organizer, answer reflection questions, and respond to a written task. 

Students will analyze a secondary source (poem) and three primary sources (Souls of Black Folks, Talented Tenth, and the Atlanta Compromise).  This will help them understand the responses of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Du Bois to the Jim Crow era and Gilded Age.  

Students will analyze artifacts from the progressive era to learn about the causes and effects of the Pure Food and Drugs Act as well as the Meat Inspection Act.  

How did industrialization impact farmers? What reforms did the Populist Party propose?  

What is a living wage? Why was it a suggested reform during the Gilded Age? Students will analyze a primary source document related to this topic and compare it to modern day living wage debates. 

Students will use evidence from the documents to compare and contrast the National Woman's Party & the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Students will analyze the historical context of the gilded age in order to study an important progressive era movement - muckraking journalism.  Students will read excerpts and review images from Jacob Riis's How the Other Half Lives. 

Students will analyze various documents from the women's rights movement and analyze arguments for and against women's suffrage.

Students will use evidence from the documents to discuss the conditions that led Progressive Reformers to address their goal and the extent to which the goal was achieved.

Students will recall content learned in unit 5 and organize and align content according to the three unit themes (economic systems, reform movements, equality).  Students will then use this content as evidence to answer the unit 5 essential questions.

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