Fourth Period: 1:12pm to 1:49pm
Fifth Period: 1:52pm to 2:29pm
Sixth Period: 2:32pm to 3:10pm
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era Readings & Checkpoints
Over the course of the unit, we will be going through different sections of the textbook in class. Whenever we start a reading, the questions will be due the next day and there will be a reading checkpoint made available after school for homework (unless there are other instructions). The Google Forms online correspond to a specific topic/lesson in the textbook.
Western Agriculture
While Reconstruction shaped the South following the Civil War, other events were occurring throughout the American West. The vast landscape of the Great Plains offered both promise and problems.
Industry and Corporations
The railroads that arose after the Civil War were big businesses. Other big businesses followed as entrepreneurs, industrialists, and bankers found new ways to increase economic efficiency and the output of goods. In the process, they brought prosperity to the country and fabulous wealth to themselves.
The U.S. Patent Office had never seen a year like 1897. An average of nearly 60 patents, or licenses for new inventions, were being granted every day. By year’s end, Americans had registered some 21,000 patents, more than the total recorded in the entire 1850s.