The mostly highly recommended resources are noted with asterisks **before and after their titles**
Topics Explored This Unit:
- Reconstruction, Race Relations, and the Post-Civil War South
- Innovation & the Expansion of American Industry
- The Rise of Big Business
- Politics during the Gilded Age
- Immigration, Urbanization, Working Conditions, Early Reform
- Labor Disputes
- Economic Debates (during the Gilded Age and beyond)
- Closing the Western Frontier & Plains Indian Wars
Unit Reading: Excerpts from Chapters 24-26
Unit Presentation
Reconstruction, Race Relations, and the Post-Civil War South
- Crash Course: Reconstruction
- Heimler's History: Reconstruction's Beginning ( 8 min)
- Heimler's History: Reconstruction's Failure Sharecropping, KKK, Black Codes, End of Reconstruction)
- **Heimler's History: The "New South" (Developments in the South after Reconstruction - includes Ida B. Wells & Booker T. Washington!)**
- Click here for a longer list of Reconstruction resources.
Innovation & Expansion of American Industry and the Rise of Big Business
- Heimler's History: Technology in the Industrial Age (World History)
- **Heimler's History: Technological Innovation in the Industrial Age (US History)**
- **Heimler's History: The Rise of Industrial Capitalism**
- Great summary reading chapter: "Gilded Age" (multiple pages, keep clicking next)
- History Channel Clip: Andrew Carnegie
Politics during the Gilded Age
Immigration, Urbanization, Working Conditions & Reform
- **Heimler's History: Immigration and Migration**
- **Heimler's History: Responses to Immigration**
- Heimler's History: Society during the Industrial Age (effects of industrialization)
- **Heimler's History: Development of the Middle Class**
- **Heimler's History: Reform during the Gilded Age**
- Great summary reading chapter: "From the Countryside to the City" (multiple pages, keep clicking next)
- Great summary reading chapter: "New Dimensions in Everyday Life" (multiple pages, keep clicking next)
- Crash Course: Growth, Cities, and Immigration
- History Channel Video: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
Labor Disputes
Economic Debates (during the Gilded Age and Beyond)
- Economics Graphic Organizer: Capitalism, Socialism, and Communism
- Economics Study Guide
- **Now This: Socialism vs. Communism** (Note: At the end when he describes a mix of socialism and capitalism, he is describing a MIXED-MARKET ECONOMY)