Warm-up:

• In your spiral, write down everything you know about the United States during the year 1877...

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, 1870-80

World’s 1st 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