1) The document provides instructions for creating a "term shrine" to illustrate understanding of a term from U.S. history. 2) It suggests including the context, design, images, and written definitions of the term. 3) As an example, it discusses the Gilded Age in American history from 1870-1890 which was a period of growth, industry, and wealth alongside political corruption.

1. Create A “Term Shrine”

7. From 1870-1890 in American history there was a time period called the "Gilded Age" which refers to the major growth in population, industry, and inventions in the United States and the extravagant displays of wealth and excess of America's upper-class who profited from the growth of industry. I am Mark Twain and I first used the term in a book I wrote in 1873 called, The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today where I criticized greed and political corruption in America after the Civil War