Join me as we examine the "gilded age" and the progressive era of the United States and learn about the tremendous impact it had on the country today. 

This course will be taught using visual aids via PowerPoint in a lecture-based format. Students will be expected to ask questions and discuss the material we are covering as a group. During the 50-minute class sessions, students should expect to answer questions to check their understanding and participate in class discussions. The last week of the course will be the unit test which will be in the form of an interactive game of Kahoot. 

This is an introductory class, so students do not need to have any background knowledge coming into class!

Week 1: Industrialization (inventions that changed the world, increased immigration to the U.S, societal changes, unionization and strikes, American Socialist Party)  

Week 2: The Robber Barons (their justifications for their business practices, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, J.P Morgan, the Sherman Anti-Trust Act)  
 
Week 3: The Progressive Movement (Election of 1900, the influence of the Robber Barons on the election, the assassination of William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt becomes President) 

Week 4: The End of an Era (Roosevelt's targeting of large business monopolies, muckraking, the early Civil Rights movement, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B DuBois, Election of 1908, Election of 1912, Prohibition, 19th amendment)

Week 5: Kahoot Assessment