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ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American Society?
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ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

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Page 1: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhat were the

Changing Patterns in

Immigration, Farming and Industry that

Created a Wider Gulf

Between the Rich and Poor in American

Society?

Page 2: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

Social Darwinism

Page 3: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

Great Wealth in the Midst of Poverty

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

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

Page 4: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

How the Other Half Lived

Page 5: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

How the Other Half Lived

Page 6: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

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

Page 7: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

•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

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The Disappearance of the Family Farm

•The Homestead Act

•Expensive New Machinery

•The Agrarian Myth

Page 9: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

Immigration

Patterns

•The Plight of Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe

•Ethnic Homesteads in Urban America

•Muckraking Journalists Bring a Measure of Reform

Page 10: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

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

Page 11: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

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”

Page 12: ESSENTIAL QUESTION What were the Changing Patterns in Immigration, Farming and Industry that Created a Wider Gulf Between the Rich and Poor in American.

ESSENTIAL QUESTIONWhat were the

Changing Patterns in

Immigration, Farming and Industry that

Created a Wider Gulf

Between the Rich and Poor in American

Society?