Students investigate the economic events that caused such a separation between social classes in the United States during this time period. Then they design financial and social models with the goal of closing the gap between the super rich and the poverty-stricken. Students also collaborate in the production of a documentary about the Gilded Age.

Concepts

societies, the gilded age

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Additional Tags

economically, era, gilded age, prosperity, society, social studies

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