AP United States History Unit 6 The Gilded Age AP United States History Unit 6
Urban Growth: 1870-1900
“Dumbbell” Tenement
Jacob Riis’ How the Other Half Lives (1890)
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives
How the Other Half Lives
“Boss” William Marcy Tweed
Tammany Hall (NYC)
“‘Twas Him”
“The Tammany Tiger”
The “Brains” (Boss Tweed)
Thomas Nast Nast’s self-portrait
Thomas Nast Cartoons
The “New Woman”
The “New Woman”
Carrie Chapman Catt
Early Woman Suffrage
WCTU Frances Willard
Carrie A. Nation “…a bulldog running along at the feet of Jesus, barking at what He doesn't like”
Books of Social Criticism
Jane Addams’ Hull House
Unit 6 Essay Assess the validity of this statement. "Although the economic growth of the United States between 1860 and 1900 has been attributed to a governmental policy of laissez-faire, it was in fact encouraged and sustained by direct government intervention." Assess the validity of this statement.