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US History, part three. Industry made vast fortunes and vast misery, and reformers set out to fix it.
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What your child will learn: The Gilded Age & Progressive Era
- After the Civil War, industry, railroads and steel transformed the US economy.
- Millions of immigrants arrived, many through Ellis Island, supplying labour and reshaping American cities.
- Enormous fortunes sat beside tenement poverty, child labour and unsafe factories.
- Progressive reformers pushed for safety laws, limits on child labour, food and drug inspection and trust-busting.
- The women's suffrage movement won the vote with the 19th Amendment in 1920.
Sample worksheet questions
1. Name a problem of the Gilded Age.
Answer: Child labour, unsafe factories or tenement poverty
2. In what year was it ratified?
Answer: 1920
3. What did Progressive reformers want?
Answer: Safety laws, limits on child labour, inspection and trust-busting
4. What is a trust, in this era?
Answer: A giant business combination that limited competition
5. Where did many immigrants arrive in New York?
Answer: Ellis Island
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🏭 Activity Sheet: Reform Proposal: Pick one Gilded Age problem. Write the problem, who it harmed, the reform proposed, and whether it worked.
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