1. Warm-up: In your spiral, write down everything you know about the United States during the year 1877...

2. 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.

3. Completion of the Transcontinental Railroad: May 10, 1869

4. The Robber Barons: Andrew Carnegie, John Rockefeller, Cornelius Vanderbilt, J.P. Morgan

5. Unemployed workers riot in NYC 1874

6. U.S. Map, 1870-80

7. World’s 1 st Skyscraper in Chicago 1885

8. Norwegian settlers in North Dakota 1898

9. “Custer’s Last Fight” 1876

10. African-Americans after Reconstruction

11. Dawes Act (1887) & Indian Conflicts

12. Women’s Christian Temperance Union