Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898

AP United States History

Timeline of key events

The big themes

Industrialization

Labor conflict

Immigration and urbanization

Westward expansion and Native peoples

The "New South" and racial oppression

Gilded Age politics

Key figures

Vocabulary

Unit 6 topics

Unit 6 overview6.1Contextualizing Period 66.2Westward Expansion: Economic Development6.3Westward Expansion: Social and Cultural Development6.4The "New South"6.5Technological Innovation6.6The Rise of Industrial Capitalism6.7Labor in the Gilded Age6.8Immigration and Migration in the Gilded Age6.9Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age
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