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Gilded
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Grade 8 Social |
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| Gilded Age - General Information |
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Gilded
Age - Library of Congress |
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Big Business |
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| Andrew Carnegie: Richest man in the world | Andrew Carnegie : a tribute |
| Commodore J. Pierpont Morgan | J. Pierpont Morgan - picture history |
| John D. Rockefeller & the Standard Oil Company | John D. Rockefeller: The Cutthroat Competitor |
| Cornelius Vanderbilt -Railway Hall of Fame | Cornelius Vanderbilt - his business saavy |
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The Robber Barons - Thinkquest |
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Reaction and Reform |
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Theodore Roosevelt - Thinkquest |
Theodore Roosevelt - Grolier |
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Teddy Roosevelt - Time 100 |
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Sherman Antitrust Act - article |
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Yellow Journalism - definition & links |
Muckraking Journalism - definition / and links |
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Thomas Nast - links |
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Jane Addams - biography and links |
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Ida Tarbell - Life and Works |
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Upton Sinclair - (1878 - 1968) |
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| National Women's Suffrage Assoc. | |
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Women's Christian Temperance Union - World Book |
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Guide to the International Ladies' Garment Workers Union - organizational history |
International Ladies' Garment Workers Union - Columbia Ency. |
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Knights of Labor - predecessor - AFL |
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Knights of Labor - Fact Monster article |
Today in History - Labor union history |
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Technology - Inventors / Inventions |
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| Samuel F.B. Morse | Samuel F.B. Morse - Inventor of the week |
| Henry Bessemer | Henry Bessemer-Steel City Founders |
| Alexander Graham Bell - Hall of Fame | Alexander Graham Bell - Scottish Inventor |
| Thomas Alva Edison | Wizard of Menlo Park - Edison |
| Henry Ford | Henry Ford - PBS |
| Henry Ford -Time 100 | George Westinghouse - invention dimension |
| George Westinghouse | George Westinghouse - good site |
| The Iron Road - PBS show | Railroad Barons |
| Industrial Supremacy - Biography of America - Learner.org | A History of the Chinese in California (Railroads) |
| NOTE: Railroad rebate information may be found under names such as JD Rockefeller, etc. | |
| Immigration / Anti- Immigration | |
| Immigrant and Ethnic America | A History of the Chinese in California |
| American Immigration Home Page | America, Land of Diversity |
| Cycles of Nativism in American History | Immigration, Ethnicity & Nativism - a PowerPoint presentation |
| The New Immigration and the New Nativism - a PowerPoint presentation | Immigration - Scholastic Research starters |
| Cycles of Nativism in US History | Nativism - also the know-nothing party |
| "Give me your Tired" - National Origins Act | History of Ellis Island - National Origins Acts |
| History of Immigration Legislation | Immigrant America 1870- 1920 |
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Urbanization of America |
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| How the Other Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York | The New City - Biography of America - Learner.org |
| Capital and Labor - Biography of America - Learner.org | Boss Tweed and the Tammany Hall Machine |
| Riots/Tammany Heals/ Boss Tweed | William Marcy ("Boss") Tweed |
| Boss - Smithsonian | Tammany Hall links |
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Entertainment |
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| The Gilded Age- overview of the time period | |
| The Gilded Age - highlights from the Smithsonian | The Gilded Age - Studio Art |
| Art: The American Renaissance | The Gilded Age - Links for Artists |
| Introduction to American Cultural Expression during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era | Ragtime and Jazz |
| Charlie Chaplin | Sports 1900 - 1920 |
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Photographs |
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| American Memory | Thomas Nast.com |
| Thomas Nast Prints | Central Pacific Railroad Photographic History |