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Unit 6

AP U.S. History Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898

10–17% of the multiple-choice section · about 18 class periods · 14 topics

Industrialization, westward expansion, labor, immigration, urban life, politics and reform in the Gilded Age.

Topics

  1. 6.1Contextualizing Period 6
  2. 6.2Westward Expansion: Economic Development
  3. 6.3Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development
  4. 6.4The “New South”
  5. 6.5Technological Innovation
  6. 6.6The Rise of Industrial Capitalism
  7. 6.7Labor in the Gilded Age
  8. 6.8Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age
  9. 6.9Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
  10. 6.10Development of the Middle Class
  11. 6.11Reform in the Gilded Age
  12. 6.12Controversies over the Role of Government in the Gilded Age
  13. 6.13Politics in the Gilded Age
  14. 6.14Continuity and Change in Period 6