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1 WebPath Express results for (gilded age) Displaying: 1 25 of 311 Grade Level: Gilded Age Grade Level: The Gilded Age is referred to as the time period of in American History. Do you know the significance of the name, Gilded Age? During this time, the production of steel and iron rose. This dramatic industrial increase resulted in a lot of wealth in America. It was this period that John D. Rockefeller in the oil business and Andrew Carnegie in the steel business became millionaires. The Gilded Age came to represent the amount of wealth and the corresponding wealthy lifestyle of this time. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1360 URL: America's Gilded Age Grade Level: 9 12 The home of Henry Flagler was as magnificent as a palace when it was built during the Gilded Age. Mark Twain gave the Gilded Age its name. The technological and industrial growth of this era of U.S. history was amazing. A few industrial leaders became amazingly wealthy. Americans began to believe utopia was possible with hard work and ingenuity. Although some of the great homes of this period were self sustaining estates, most were collections of architecture and antiques that became museums. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1530 URL: Gilded Age ( ) Grade Level: 3 5 The Gilded Age in America was a time that demonstrated growth of industry and immigration. With the summary on this web site you will learn what industries and resources saw a substantial rise in production. You will learn the names of some of the most successful businessmen of this time. It shows you how this period was marked by wealth and prosperity for Americans. A time line on the web site is a great visual tool showing you the Gilded Age's relation to other important eras. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1230 URL: Gilded Age Politics:Crash Course US History #26 Grade Level: The Gilded Age suggests elaborate parties and wealth, but the Mark Twain book it was named after was about American politics. Twain didn't have a very high view of Congress, even in the late 19th century. America's democratic government had become corrupt. Explore political machines like New York's Tammany Hall. Investigate how much a courthouse ended up costing, and how Tammany Hall helped the poor in exchange for votes. When corruption wasn't enough, voter fraud provided another way to get votes. Topic: Gilded age, Tammany Hall (Political Organization) URL: Lexile: 1090 Format Type: Video The Gilded Age Grade Level: During the late 1800's and early 1900's many Americans achieved a lot of wealth. They attended operas, theaters, parties, and had more time for leisure activities than ever before. However, that was not true for everyone. Poverty was thriving in rural areas and in the cities. In 1890, 11 million of the nation's 12 million families earned less than $1,200 per year. The Gilded Age is a time when there was a large gap between the rich and the poor. This article provides you more information on this conflict ridden time in American history. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 990 URL: New Spirits: Rethinking the Gilded Age in U.S. History Grade Level: /5

2 It was an age of tramps and millionaires as an economic depression struck in a time of industrialization. Economic inequality wasn't new, but capitalism accelerated the extremes during the Gilded Age. Stocks and bonds took the place of land and slaves for the rich, while urban slums grew in the immigrant wave of the late 19th century. Advertising exploded, along with bribery and corruption. Investigate political parties in Explore the debate over the gold standard. The 1893 World's Fair depicted a Dream City of inventions and progress. Analyze Native American views of America's first national park. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1010 URL: The Gilded Age Grade Level: 9 12 The Gilded Age was characterized by corrupt politics and unrestrained capitalism. In a time of monopolies and government corruption, Blue Laws and prohibition attempted to legislate morality. Discover how Chester Arthur combated government corruption and instituted reform, even at the cost of members of his own political party being prosecuted. While Andrew Jackson introduced the spoils system to American government, Chester Arthur devised the merit system. Explore differences between the Democratic and Republican parties of the late 19th century. Read about the presidential race of 1884 and Grover Cleveland's policies. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1290 URL: Cartoons of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Grade Level: 9 12 This collection of cartoons is representative of the Progressive Era and the Gilded Age. You will find cartoons of Theodore Roosevelt, Grover Cleveland, and the 1900 presidential campaign and also cartoons from the anti trust movement and the anti Imperialist movement. You have the ability to get a close view of each image of the cartoons by zooming in and moving them around. Brief descriptions of the cartoons and background information on some cartoons can be found as well. Topic: Progressive era, Gilded age URL: Format Type: Image collection Source Type: Primary Source Material Life in the Gilded Age Grade Level: Life appeared to be covered with gold as industrialists accumulated fortunes and the new middle class could afford consumer items and travel. Some used their wealth to build elaborate estates, like Biltmore with its 35 bedrooms and 43 bathrooms. Read a story about a formerly wealthy Southern woman who taught at an African American school. Learn about bicycle accidents, the roller skating craze, and tourism in the Gilded Age. As industry produced new products, advertising and mail order catalogs developed to convince consumers that they needed things like cameras, packaged foods, tobacco, and beauty products. Topic: Industrialization United States, Gilded age Lexile: 1250 URL: The Gilded Age Grade Level: Factories used for military supplies during the Civil War were set up for peacetime use in the Gilded Age. Industry continued to grow as agriculture took a smaller part of the economy. The labor market changed as most people went to work for a few powerful employers. The economy doubled amidst ruthless competition. Everyone knew of Rockefeller, Carnegie, and J.P. Morgan. They controlled the oil, steel, and banking industries in America. By the time World War I started, the U.S. had passed the European empires when it came to industrialization. Explore changing attitudes toward wealth and politics. Topic: Industrialization United States, Gilded age Lexile: 1040 Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska Grade Level: 9 12 Explore the development of Lincoln, Nebraska as you examine a murder case that took place in the 1890s. As you interact with this site you will find a primary source archive that is filled with documents, newspaper articles and 2/5

3 illustrations, photographs, and post cards. You will learn all about the development of Lincoln, Nebraska through descriptions and an interactive map. You will learn more about the history of the city as you read the spatial narratives and the details of the murder case. You will also find a helpful guide and timeline that allow you to easily navigate the site. Topic: Nebraska History, Gilded age Lexile: 1320 Format Type: Image collection, Interactive URL: The Gilded Age Grade Level: An era of optimism arose in the late 19th century as industrialization gave way to ambition. The Gilded Age was a time of capitalists and railroads, but also workers suffering in factories and mines. Industry and agriculture exploited workers and natural resources, but the Supreme Court blocked regulation. Social Darwinism convinced some that the government should not help the poor. Mining, agriculture, and ranching led to the extermination and relocation of Native Americans. Barbed wire transformed ranching, while farming in the Great Plains led to falling grain prices. Millions of immigrants descended on American cities, and labor protests broke out. Topic: Industrialization United States, Gilded age Lexile: 1190 URL: The Gilded Age: New Attitudes Toward Wealth Grade Level: Not everyone was getting rich during the Gilded Age, but the ones who noticed the new wealthy class began to wonder how they did it. The old way was to inherit it, but new ideas emerged. They were Social Darwinism (the survival of the fittest), the Gospel of Wealth (God decided who would be talented and successful, but they had to share their wealth), and Algerism (based on Horatio Alger s dime novels that preached hard work and good fortune, pluck and luck, was the way to wealth). The masses wanted to believe Alger s message, the basis of the American Dream. Topic: Alger, Horatio, Gilded age, American children's literature Lexile: 1030 Edith Wharton and the Gilded Age Writers: The Age of Innocence Grade Level: During the television season, C SPAN presented the series American Writers: A Journey through History. The companion site to the eight chapter series representing the writers and literary works of American from the revolution through Vietnam remains available to virtual visitors. The entry devoted to Edith Wharton features a biographical sketch; an introduction to the featured work, The Age of Innocence, for which Wharton won the Pulitzer Prize in 1921; information about the Mount, Wharton's estate; and classroom resources that include related film clips. Topic: Wharton, Edith Format Type: Biography URL: Coal Mining in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Grade Level: 9 12 Coal mining in the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era is the featured topic of this collection of primary sources. You will find pictoral and photo essays, personal accounts, historical information, and magazine articles. You will gain a new perspective of life as a coal miner, mining communities, child labor, coal mines, and the machinery that was used in some extremely hazardous conditions. You will also discover how life at the turn of the century differed from life today. Topic: Coal mines and mining, Coal miners URL: Source Type: Primary Source Material Muckraking Journalist Jacob Riis and Gilded Age New York City Grade Level: 9 12 This presentation by Professor Daniel Czitrom talks about the life of Jacob Riis and describes how Riis portrayed New York City. Riis was a Danish American immigrant who had studied carpentry. He set sail for America after his girlfriend rejected his proposal. Although he had a skilled trade and a working knowledge of English, Riis still struggled to succeed. After drifting through odd jobs, he became a journalist on the police beat. Photographs and descriptions 3/5

4 raised concerns about public health and overcrowded tenements. Explore a different description of home and find out what would happen on hot summer nights. Topic: Riis, Jacob A. Format Type: Video URL: span.org The Gilded and the Gritty: America, Grade Level: After the Civil War, the United States had to redefine its national identity. Paintings and short stories tell of soldiers returned from war to again become farmers or making their way west looking to escape from the dull toil. Some address the blending of Northern and South cultures into equality and efficiency. Explore Reconstruction rhetoric and the landscape of America. The turn of the century brought a season of progress, great engineering achievements, and machines. The metropolis provided a new vision of America. Photographs explore the lives of immigrants and the story of assimilation. Examine industrial empires and frontiers. Topic: Gilded age Source Type: Primary Source Material URL: Artistic and Literary Trends Grade Level: Art and literature flourished during America's Gilded Age. Industrial millionaires became art patrons or paid to have their portraits painted. Tiffany glass decorated rich homes. Painters captured the wonders and hardships of industry with a realistic style, or captured images of women and children in an impressionistic style. Several of the best American artists moved to Europe to work among the masters. Those who stayed painted Civil War soldiers, the American countryside, rural America, or the New England coast. Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, and Theodore Dreiser wrote their famous books about life along the Mississippi River, feminism, and urban horrors. Topic: Gilded age Lexile: 1120 Guilds Grade Level: 9 12 Combining a labor union with vocational training, medieval guilds also regulated products and prices. Guilds were for middle class merchants, craftsmen, artisans, and other skilled workers. While early guilds were loose associations, they eventually became rigidly organized. Blacksmiths, weaponsmiths, woodcutters, and wood stackers each had their own guilds. Doing the work of another guild could lead to criminal charges. Townschildren were apprenticed to a master craftsman between the age of 7 and 13 to learn the skills of pottery, cobbling, masonry, or carpentry. Journeymen worked for wages and had to submit a masterpiece to the guild before they could take apprentices. Topic: Middle Ages, Guilds URL: Medieval Society: Guilds Grade Level: Found throughout the towns of Europe in medieval times, guilds were professional associations or charitable societies. As time went by, guilds became more focused on trades than social or religious purposes. Foreign merchants paid a heavy tax to sell their goods or sold them to guild members for resale. Only members could set up shop or manufacture goods. Guilds for some crafts were highly specialized, such as separate guilds for spinners and weavers. Artisans started as child apprentices, traveled as hired hands or journeymen, and demonstrated their craft with a masterpiece before being accepted into a guild. Topic: Middle Ages, Guilds Lexile: 1000 URL: Medieval Guilds Grade Level: In medieval times, guilds were important for merchants and artisans who lived towns and cities. Merchant guilds were first formed to protect wagons and goods during travel. They later founded towns. Craft guilds allowed carpenters, bakers, or other groups of artisans to work together. They later established monopolies. Guilds helped reduce fraud and ensure quality workmanship. Prices were regulated and advertising was forbidden. Guilds protected trade secrets and forbade imports. They provided funeral expenses, dowries, health insurance, and public services. Apprentices started learning the trade as teens and progressed to journeymen and masters. Topic: Middle Ages, Guilds Lexile: /5

5 URL: The Guilds of York Grade Level: Weavers, saddlers, butchers, and vintners each had their own guilds in York starting in the 12th or 13th century. By the 15th century, York had 80 trade guilds for different professions. The Porters' guild listed who could carry items from the riverfront. The Drapers' guild devised ways to prevent foreign drapers from selling their goods in York. Guild representatives inspected raw materials and the workmanship of finished goods. They determined prices and wages. York also had religious guilds with thousands of members in the 15th and 16th centuries. Topic: Middle Ages, Guilds Lexile: 1360 URL: Medieval Life: Guilds Grade Level: The goal of a merchant guild was protecting traveling merchants, while craft guilds licensed craftsmen. Medieval craftsmen and merchants gained status from belonging to a guild, but a guild also provided support to sick or injured members. Apprentices received training, but couldn't get married. Journeymen could get married, but had to work for a master. The guild decided who could be a master. Shipwrights and other craft guilds would design play carts for religious festivals. Topic: Middle Ages, Scotland History, Guilds Lexile: 1240 URL: The Industrial Age in America: Robber Barons and Captains of Industry Grade Level: The great industrialists of the Gilded Age lived more than a century ago, but people continue to debate whether they were robber barons or captains of industry. Andrew Carnegie waxed eloquent about the responsibilities of wealth, but Cornelius Vanderbilt felt that his power placed him above the law. The Industrial Age was a time of sweatshops and factories. Investigate whether the charitable donations and jobs provided by the captains of industry justified the income disparity. Ten and twelve year olds were already hard at work at oyster factories and cotton mills. Strikes and factory fires raised awareness of working conditions. Topic: Industrialization United States Lexile: 1260 URL: The Guilds and Livery Companies Grade Level: Bakers, fishmongers, and other trades formed guilds in medieval London, often living and working on a particular street. While guilds were supposed to be about protecting product quality, they also took an active interest in the reputations of their members. Laziness, disturbing the peace, or drinking too much could get members kicked out of the guild. Guilds controlled who could practice a trade, open a shop, or train an apprentice. Find out why widows could continue their husband's trade as part of the guild if he died. London's Guildhall provided a communal meeting place for guild business. Topic: Middle Ages, Guilds Lexile: 1330 URL: Displaying: 1 25 of /5