This collection of primary sources explores the introduction of electric power to the United States.

Europe and America were far from alone in the quest for industrialization. This unit explores just how far the age of industry impacted the world.

A class project slideshow about the Gilded Age covering topics such as: Reformers, Mark Twain, Spoils System, political candidates, and lots more.

[Free Registration/Login Required] This lesson has notes covering the American Industrial Revolution and famous leaders of the industrial age. Also includes the need for immigrants to supply the factories with workers.

An excerpt from Andrew Carnegie's autobiography that describes his attitude toward wealth and an excerpt from the novel The Gilded Age by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that suggests the giddy, unreality of an America caught up in...

This thirty-minute video, the seventeenth in a series on American history, examines the rocky relationship between labor, management, and industry from 1882 to 1901. You can also read the transcript, find a map of the Anthracite Strike,...

A lesson plan requiring student to analyze primary documents from the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876. Students interpret what these historical artifacts say "about the lives and values of Americans in 1876" among other things.

Overview of the American industrial age growth of corporations and urbanization.

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.

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

After a brief description of the economy in the Gilded Age, find links to stories about many cultural events of the age. Read about Jim Thorpe, the Johnstown flood, and the first Coca-Cola, among other stories.

The United States had an industrial resurgence after the Civil War. Read about the growth of big business in many areas and the men associated with these businesses. See also the people who did not prosper during this time and evaluate...

Slater divided factory work into such simple steps that children aged four to ten could do it -- and did. While such child labor is anathema today, American children were traditionally put to work around the farm as soon as they could...

Lewis Hine documented the conditions of life during the industrial development of America. His photographs show the impact of both child labor and immigration.

Ash Can School artist John Sloan's painting Election Night captures the exuberance of urban politics in the early-twentieth century, and artist Henry Glitkencamp's illustration Voting Machines suggests its corrupting power. Both pieces...

Excerpt from U.S. Strike Commission Report. Site also provides focus questions at the bottom.

Use this site to learn about industrial designer Raymond Loewy and how his Avanti car design was brought to reality. You'll also be able to find out what involvement he had with kitchens and NASA.

This resource, a speech by Woodrow Wilson to Congress on April 8, 1913, gives a great review of how the United States transformed from from a rural country to an urban one. It includes a review of industrialization, new inventions,...

Find fun historical facts from events over the course of the year 1900.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the New Woman ideal.

This collection uses primary sources to explore the Great Migration.

A collection uses primary sources to explore the construction of the Panama Canal.

This collection uses primary sources to explore settlement houses during the Progressive Era.

A five-question quiz over the rise of industrial capitalism and the Gilded Age.