warm-up: in your spiral, write down everything you know about the united states during the year 1877
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Warm-up:
• In your spiral, write down everything you know about the United States during the year 1877...
The Gilded Age
• Gilded: adjective • 1. covered or highlighted with gold or something
of a golden color. • 2. having a pleasing or showy appearance that
conceals something of little worth. • The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is an 1873 novel
by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner that satirizes greed and political corruption in post-Civil War America in the era now referred to as the Gilded Age.
Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad: May 10, 1869
The Robber Barons: Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan
Unemployed workers riot in NYC 1874
U.S. Map, 1870-80
World’s 1st Skyscraper in Chicago 1885
Norwegian settlers in North Dakota 1898
“Custer’s Last Fight” 1876
African-Americans after Reconstruction
Dawes Act (1887) & Indian Conflicts
Women’s Christian Temperance Union