The Gilded Age
Industrialization, big business, labor unions, immigration, urbanization, and political machines
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Study rapid industrialization (Carnegie, Rockefeller, Morgan), the transcontinental railroad, labor unions (Knights of Labor, AFL), the New Immigration wave, urbanization, political machines (Tammany Hall), the Populist movement, and Jim Crow laws and segregation (Plessy v. Ferguson).
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