gilded

1. Society during the Gilded Age

2. Bell work 12/1
• We have been learning about the Gilded Age
(the time between the Civil War and World
War I). From all that we have learned, write an
answer for each:
1. One verb to describe the Gilded Age:
2. One noun to describe the Gilded Age:
3. One adjective to describe the Gilded Age:

3. p. 87 Society During the Gilded Age
Number this page 1-7 (each section needs 4
lines)

4. 1. Jim Crow South
• Separate but equal= legal segregation (Plessy v
Ferguson)

5. 2. Immigrants
• Nativism=racism,
American born are
better than new
immigrants
• Melting pot=

6. 3. Working class
(lowest class)
•Living conditions:
•Most immigrants

8. 4. laborers

9. 5. Farmers
(Grangers)
•Poor b/c shipping
costs
•Blame RR for
problems
•Populist
party=bimetalism

10. 6. Middle Class
• Social Darwinism- making your own
fate/getting ahead on your own

11. 7. New upper class
• The American Dream

12. p. 86: identifying social issues in the
Gilded Age
Outside of flap: word
• Melting pot Separate But Equal
• Grangers Social Darwinism
• Standard Oil Company Working Class
• Nativism Gilded Age
• Under each flap- DRAW an image/symbol to
represent the term AND define