The 41 slides in a professional development seminar model how to use close reading techniques to examine the many layers of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. In addition to passages from the novel, slides provide biographical...

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 7: 1890-1945: The Progressive Era. An overview of an Progressive Era is provided. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Social Darwinism, Charles Darwin, and the Gilded Ages are discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

This practice exercise from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The responses to mass immigration to the United States during the Gilded Age is reviewed in this resource. This resource is designed as a review for...

This unit practice test from Khan Academy covers Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Western expansion, the Gilded Age, and the "New South" are components of this unit test. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US...

The earliest waves of settlers to the Americas, up through the first half of the 19th century, constitute the era of 'old' immigration. There are some distinctions between those settlers who came prior to the Revolutionary War and those...

Famine and political revolution in Europe led millions of Irish and German citizens to immigrate to America in the mid-nineteenth century.

A quick check for understanding of migration and immigration in the 1990s and 2000s.

This Khan Academy resource provides video lessons and detailed notes for the AP U.S. History Exam. The years 1800-1848 are covered.

This extensive learning module looks at how themes of American history can create a better understanding of the big picture of the nation's history.

This extensive learning module examines the impact of the Gilded Age upon new cultural and intellectual movements, expansion of foreign trade, and political debates over economic and social policies, as well as the impact of the rise of...

This extensive learning module examines how the United States became more connected with the world as it pursued an expansionist foreign policy, became the destination for many new immigrants, and encouraged migration to the Pacific...

Interactive and animated maps and timelines of historical events and time periods in American history from pre-European times until post-World War II.

Discusses the conflict with Mexican American and Chinese groups as white settlers pushed westward in the nineteenth century. Explains what brought so many Chinese immigrants to America and the roadblocks and discrimination that they had...

A quick comprehension check over immigration and migration in the Gilded Age.

Like Native Americans, Mexican Americans and Chinese immigrants suffered harsh consequences due to relentless westward expansion by whites in the nineteenth century.

The Progressive Era from the 1890s to the 1920s evolved as a response to the negative effects of industrialization. Reforms that emerged provided protections for workers and consumers and gave women voting rights. Backlash against the...

The industrial boom of the late nineteenth century led Americans and immigrants from the world over to leave farming life and head to the city.

Disbanded after Reconstruction, the KKK returned to national prominence in the 1920s to direct its hatred against African Americans, Catholics, Jews, and immigrants.

Discusses Social Darwinism and the negative repercussions it had on society during the Gilded Age. Includes questions for students at end.

This collection uses primary sources to explore immigration to the US and immigrant Americanization between 1880 and 1930.

This extensive learning module examines how the United States' efforts to increase foreign trade, add new territory, and isolate itself from Europe affected its foreign policy and other initiatives. It investigates how advances in...

The oral histories of five immigrant communities new to Minnesota-Asian Indian, Khmer, Hmong, Somali, and Tibetan-remind us that there is no single answer to questions about what it means to be an American. With associated maps,...

Discusses the Homestead Strike of 1892 and the Pullman Strike of 1894 and how these ended, as well as responses of the federal government to the labor movement. Includes questions for students at end.