Gilded Age

  

The Gilded Age

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Digital History textbook:

Gilded Age, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/era.cfm?eraID=9&smtID=2 (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site.

In preparation for the midterm exam, be able to describe (what is it and when was it?) and analyze (what is its wider significance to the history of the United States?): 

The frontier; Wounded Knee; Carlisle Indian School; the Gilded Age; mass communication; unionization; strikes; immigration; the Chinese Exclusion Act; corporations; populism

Select significant passages from at least three of the following primary sources for your Primary Source Annotation:

Zitkala Sa, American Indian Stories (1921), http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/zitkala-sa/stories/stories.html (Links to an external site.)

"The Great Strike" (1877), Harper's Weekly, http://www.catskillarchive.com/rrextra/sk7711.Html

"Memorial of Chinese laborers resident at Rock Springs, Wyoming Territory," Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States (1885), click HERE

Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," The North American Review (1889), pp. 653-665, https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.17984155;view=1up;seq=663

Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (1910), https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/emma-goldman-anarchism-and-other-essays (Links to an external site.)

Post Primary Source Annotation and Comments on at least five other students' annotations