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Warm-up: In your spiral, write down everything you know about the United States during the year

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,

World’s 1 st 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

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