The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant economic, political, diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.
Key Concept 6.1: Technological advances, large-scale production methods, and the opening of new markets encouraged the rise of industrial capitalism in the United States.
Key Concept 6.2: The migrations that accompanied industrialization transformed both urban and rural areas of the United States and caused dramatic social and cultural change.
Key Concept 6.3: The Gilded Age produced new cultural and intellectual movements, public reform efforts, and political debates over economic and social policies.
Key Concepts PowerPoints:
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Rebecca Edwards: New Spirits: Americans in the Gilded Age from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Hasia Diner: Jewish Immigration to the United States and the Lower East Side from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Alice Kessler-Harris: In Pursuit of Equity: Women, Men, and the Quest for Economic Citizenship in 20th-century America from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Jeremi Suri - America's Emergence as a Global Power from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Jean Strouse: Morgan: American Financier from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Matthew Frye Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part I from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Matthew Jacobson: The Quest for Equality: European Immigration, Part 2 from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Patricia Limerick: The American West: A Work in Progress from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Elliott West: Guns, Horses, and the Grass Revolution from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Richard White: The American West: Urban vs. Rural from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Thomas G. Andrews: Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Kenneth Jackson: Creation of the Modern City from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Vincent Cannato: A Survey of U.S. Immigration History from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
Jonathan Holloway: Jim Crow and the Fight for American Citizenship from The Gilder Lehrman Institute on Vimeo.
