1. Good morning!
Please get out your major themes sheet, your notes, and any work from your homework reading.
Be ready for a brief quiz.

2. The Gilded Age & The Progressive Era
Unit Questions:
What is the cost of progress?
What do we value?
GQ#1 - Why were the 1870s and 1880s decades of rapid industrialization?
GQ#2 – How great were the social & economic consequences of rapid industrialization?

3. The Plight of Farmers GQ#2 – How great were the social & economic consequences of rapid industrialization?
How were farmers impacted by industrialization? Give at least one specific example.
How did farmers respond to the changes brought on by industrialization? In other words, what did they do about it?
What was the Populist Party, and what did they want?
What Vocab?

4. GQ#2 – How great were the social & economic consequences of rapid industrialization? Captains of Industry or Robber Barons?

5. Paper 2 Practice
Part A – Why did the US maintain a high tariff policy in the 1870s & 1880s?
Part B – To what extent was expansion of the railroads the main cause of rapid industrialization of the USA in the late 19th Century?