Fourth Period: 1:12pm to 1:49pm
Fifth Period: 1:52pm to 2:29pm
Sixth Period: 2:32pm to 3:10pm
The Gilded Age & Progressive Era Readings & Checkpoints
Over the course of the unit, we will be going through different sections of the textbook in class. Whenever we start a reading, the questions will be due the next day and there will be a reading checkpoint made available after school for homework (unless there are other instructions). The Google Forms online correspond to a specific topic/lesson in the textbook.
The Rise of Progressivism
The late 1800s has been called the Gilded Age. The name came from an 1873 novel by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner titled The Gilded Age, which poked fun at the era’s greed and political corruption. Gilded means coated with a thin layer of gold. It implies that a surface glitter hides a darker reality. For many Americans, the novel captured the spirit of the time. In the words of one observer, it was government “of, by, and for the rich.” The Progressive reform movement received a huge boost when Theodore Roosevelt became President in 1901. He was the first of three Presidents who used their power as the nation’s chief executive to fight for Progressive causes.