Period 6: 1865-1898

After the Civil War, the United States emerged as the world's foremost industrial power. With that came great wealth and great poverty.

Westward expansion: economic development
Westward expansion: social and cultural development
The "New South"
Technological innovation
The rise of industrial capitalism
Labor in the Gilded Age
Immigration and migration in the Gilded Age
Responses to immigration in the Gilded Age
Development of the middle class
Reform in the Gilded Age
Controversies over the role of government in the Gilded Age
Politics in the Gilded Age
Continuity and change in Period 6