PPT-1865-1900

America Moves to the City The Urban Frontier The Urban Frontier 1870 40 million people doubled by 1900 population in the cities tripled The Urban Frontier 1870 40 million people doubled by 1900 population in the cities tripled. BOOK I. 1865-1900. AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE. TRANSPORTATION. FIRM AGRICULTURAL BASE. NATIVE TECHNOLOGY. LABOR. CAPITAL. RAILROADS. 1865-1890. 35,000-200,000 MILES. AGRICULTURE. MORRILL ACT OF 1862. HATCH ACT OF 1887. Period 6. The transformation of the United States from an. agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized. society brought about significant economic, political,. diplomatic, social, environmental, and cultural changes.. 1865-1914. UNIT VI: “The Gilded Age.”. So, what is it all about?. “The transformation of the United States from an agricultural to an increasingly industrialized and urbanized society brought about significant political, economic, diplomatic, social, environmental and cultural changes.” . Private Study and Deeper Learning Guide. . Unit 1 Breadth Study for AQA A-Level History. The Making of a Super Power, USA 1865 - 1985. The following guide provides a number of ways for you to maximise and deepen your learning in your A-level History Unit on the History of the USA 1865-1975. Many of these tasks should be completed in Private Study (PS) in addition to any homework tasks you have been set. You can use the core textbook and other key books available in the school library, as well as the following websites, to support you. . BOOK I. 1865-1900. AMERICAN INFRASTRUCTURE. TRANSPORTATION. FIRM AGRICULTURAL BASE. NATIVE TECHNOLOGY. LABOR. CAPITAL. RAILROADS. 1865-1890. 35,000-200,000 MILES. AGRICULTURE. MORRILL ACT OF 1862. HATCH ACT OF 1887. The New South. The Myth of the New South. A Fresh Vision-. It needed a new vision; this was provided by Henry Grady, the editor of the . Atlanta Constitution. , who illustrated a “New South”—a “perfect democracy” of farms and industries. .  . The Gilded Age in America: Successes. : . 1. Displays of wealth and excess among upper class. 2. 2nd industrial revolution. 3. Labor union movements. Gilded Age . But underneath, there were problems. Reconstruction (USA). Post war- Expanding businesses, roads, schools, hospitals, etc. Mass production. Immigrants provided workers and new consumers for the clothing industry. Westward expansion. Gold. “Gilded Age” – 1870-1900. Post-Reconstruction America. Phrase coined by Mark Twain; used to represent America during this time. Also, think of a beautiful, shiny, red apple… that is rotten on the inside. Section 1: Miners and Ranchers. Growth of Mining. Task: How do people try to “get rich quick” today?. Growth of the Mining Industry. Placer mining quartz mining were used.. Growth of Mining. Comstock Lode. The Iron Colt Becomes an Iron Horse. Railroad promoters asked for government subsidies because it was too risky, too costly and too unprofitable without help.. Most of the railroads were built with government assistance during the Gilded Age.. Chapter 6. Section 1: The New South. Industries and Cities Grow. The South Remained largely agricultural and poor after the Civil War. Farming became more diversified; grain, tobacco, and fruit crops (small farms replaced large plantations). What is Progressivism?. What was the Progressive movement?. Social/political movement of early 1900s that attempted to use activism as well as . gov’t. power to cure social problems. Why was this so groundbreaking?. In this grand-scale narrative history, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands brilliantly portrays the emergence, in a remarkably short time, of a recognizably modern America.  American Colossus captures the decades between the Civil War and the turn of the twentieth century, when a few breathtakingly wealthy businessmen transformed the United States from an agrarian economy to a world power. From the first Pennsylvania oil gushers to the rise of Chicago skyscrapers, this spellbinding narrative shows how men like Morgan, Carnegie, and Rockefeller ushered in a new era of unbridled capitalism. In the end America achieved unimaginable wealth, but not without cost to its traditional democratic values.