In this online interactive geography quiz worksheet, students respond to 17 identification questions regarding Australian cities. Students have 3 minutes to finish the timed quiz.

Eleventh graders research industries that contribute to sanitation and pollution problems. They investigate the direct result of unhygienic practices including disease outbreaks or specific illnesses. They create a Power Point...

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...

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

Herbert Spencer's article "Progress: It's Law and Cause" in which he discusses his theories of evolution prior to Darwin's publishing.

Learn about the origins and history of Social Darwinism in America.

A scholarly article by Anthropology Professor Jonathan Marks on the history of scientific racism. Published in the Encyclopedia of Race and Racism.

A fascinating look at the Scopes Trial in Tennessee where a science teacher was accused of violating a state law which prohibited the teacing of evolution. Perhaps the most interesting part of this article is the discussion of the...

The White Man's Burden was another name for Imperialism. It was an ethnocentric idea that emerged from Darwin's Theory of Evolution to explain why white people were living in what they believed were more advanced civilizations than...

The government that supported laissez-faire policies and Social Darwinism was finally considered corrupt and immoral. Read about the ideas of the Progressive Era and see how these ideas were put into activist government policy.

This entry from Wikipedia provides details on the definition and history of the concept of meritocracy, along with real life examples from the past and the present.

American writers and intellectuals played an important role in articulating the changes taking place in Industrial America in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Learn about some of the prominent writers, scientists, and philosophers at that...

An overview of the clash between the old way of life of the Victorian Age and the new, the Jazz Age.

The accumulation of wealth went beyond inheritance in the late 19th century. Read about three different ideas for the ordinary person to become wealthy.

A very detailed look at the development of the field of sociology. Looks at its historical roots, the earliest sociologists, and explains major theories that it was based on, and theories and schools of thought that evolved from those....