Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898
AP United States HistoryTimeline 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