Gilded Age

Students will read excerpts from the 1896 Populist Party platform, answer 21 questions, complete 3 extension tasks, and analyze 3 images according to provided questions. This would be great for a sub and the answers are included where appropriate...

Students will review a year of United States History (American History, US History) with the critical thinking review game, "what doesn't belong and why?" Each topic has up to 11 sets of words (people, events, terms, laws, documents, speeches, etc) for...

Students will read and analyze excerpts from the Dawes Act and a petition in response from Hopi (Moqui) tribal leaders by answering 23 questions. They will also analyze a political cartoon and complete two extension tasks. The answers are included where...

Students will create an advertisement for an invention from 1865-1900 during a unit on Industry and Labor in the Gilded Age. There are 6 academic requirements, 2 creative tasks, and 1 opinion question for this project. A points distribution and sample...

Students will complete a 3 part interview activity to review President Hayes' time in office. The first part has 6 academic questions to help students review Hayes' presidency. In the second part of the activity students "interview" Hayes right after...

Students will play true, false, fix to review the Gilded Age by reading 60 statements and determining which are true and which are false. The statements are divided by topic (the Great West, Politics, Cities and Immigrants, Industrialism) so that...

Students will read and analyze two points of view on whether or not the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 should be passed (George Hoar and James Slater) by answering 34 questions and completing a creative task. They will also analyze 5 images according to...

Students will read and analyze two points of view on whether or not there should be labor unions by answering 37 questions and completing a creative task (text excerpts from Henry Clews in 1886 and Samuel Gompers in 1894). They will also analyze 4 images...

Students review (or learn about) the different people, events, trends, laws, treaties, and more from the Gilded Age by making a 20 item timeline. The timeline incorporates political cartoons, news articles, maps, social media posts, news headlines, and...

Students will review what they learned about the people, documents, events, organizations, developments, causes, effects, and more of the Gilded Age by making trading cards, a cube, or both. Each option balances academic requirements with personal choice...

Students complete a 3 part activity to review President Cleveland and his presidency. The first part has 6 academic questions to help students review Cleveland's presidency. In the second part of the activity students "interview" Cleveland right after...

Students complete an interview activity to review Grant's presidency. They first answer 7 history based questions, then they "interview" Grant after becoming president (5 questions and answers), and then they conduct his last interview prior to his death...