The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. Reform in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. 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. The politics in the Gilded Age is discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

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...

Look in depth at the Gilded Age of history in the United States. Find resources enhancing lessons of immigration, industrialization, railroads, Native Americans, and politics.

AP U.S. History learning module covers information on the Gilded Age. Comprehensive materials and interactive resources, assignments and assessment.

Written in 2001 prior to the opening of an art exhibit at Stanford University's Cantor Arts Center this press release provides a brief contextual overview of the artistic accomplishments of artists during the Gilded Age.

The study resource from Khan Academy provides an overview of Period 6: 1865-1898 in American History. The Populist political party was discussed in this lesson. This resource is designed as a review for the AP US History Test.

Explains the history of the Populist movement, its growth into a political party, and its later dissolution. Includes questions for students at end.

The resources here, including letters, photographs, official documents, and maps, represent the exodus of African Americans from the South to the Great Plains in the late 1800s.

Learning module in which students use primary source material to examine the plight of workers in Chicago during the 19th and 20th Centuries, their efforts to make changes to working conditions and public response to those efforts.

Twelve primary sources - historical documents, literary texts, and visual images - that explore ways in which the memory of the Civil War affected American life in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.

Discusses the urbanization that took place at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. Includes questions for students at end.

A short story by Jack London that examines unrest between capital and labor in early-twentieth century San Francisco.

An article that describes the Utopian factory town George Pullman built for his workers, a statement of the grievances that led them to strike against the company, the Pullman Company's response, and an editorial speculating on the...

A speech and an engraving that illustrate how the railroad helped to unite the country after the Civil War.

Hamlin Garland's short story, "The Return of a Private", that describes the post-Civil War conflicts for western farmers with nature and with other settlers.

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...

Learning module uses primary resources to take a look at the literature published during the Civil War and examines how it helped make sense of the war and the profound changes brought about.

A short report on America by 1900: "..the American nation had established itself as a world power. The West was Won. The frontier -- the great fact of 300 years of American history -- was no more."

Read this entire novel here, and look at the illustrations that accompany it, including several portraits of William Dean Howells (1837-1920 CE).

Primary sources help students understand issues and controversies surrounding the American Indian Reservations of the 1870s. Historians provide different accounts and views of this facet of American history, and students utilize these...

An article from the Utah Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 1, by George Kraus, recounts the decision to use Chinese laborers in building the Central Pacific Railroad. Many primary source documents included as well as supplemental direct quotes in...

This Khan Academy resource provides a table of contents with notes for several sections of AP US History: Period 6: 1865-1898.

Read a short biography of Benjamin Harrison, one of the Republican presidents during the Gilded Age. A black and white photo is provided.