Period 6 APUSH: PowerPoints & Lectures // AP U.S. History

Want to take your PowerPoint / Google Slides Presentations and APUSH Lectures to the next level? 12 PowerPoints and corresponding organized Lecture Outlines aligned to 2019 APUSH / AP U.S. History Standards and Topics 6.2 - 6.13!

NEW: Google Slides Versions for ALL PowerPoints included as well!

This PowerPoint Deck contains lecture slides and lecture notes that align directly with AP US History Period 6, APUSH Topics 6.2 - 6.13 (1865-1898). I've worked to make this PowerPoint informative, engaging, eye-popping, and fun!

This package comes with 12 clearly labeled PowerPoint decks with a corresponding easy-to-follow and thoroughly researched lecture outline for each topic (24 pages total).

This PowerPoint deck is comprised of 12 separate lectures and powerpoints, each sold separately as well:

• Topic 6.2 - Westward Expansion: Economic Development (63 slides)
• Topic 6.3 - Westward Expansion: Social & Cultural Development (66 slides)
• Topic 6.4 - The "New South" (72 slides)
• Topic 6.5 - Technological Innovation (50 slides)
• Topic 6.6 - The Rise of Industrial Capitalism (48 slides)
• Topic 6.7 - Labor in the Gilded Age (52 slides)
• Topic 6.8 - Immigration & Migration in the Gilded Age (47 slides)
• Topic 6.9 - Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age (39 slides)
• Topic 6.10 - Development of the Middle Class (39 slides)
• Topic 6.11 - Reform in the Gilded Age (43 slides)
• Topic 6.12 - Controversies over Government in the Gilded Age (30 slides)
• Topic 6.13 - Politics in the Gilded Age (36 slides)

Includes:

1. 12 separate PowerPoint decks. One for each topic.
2. Lecture Outline: A 24-page organized lecture outline with added detail, approximately 1 to 2 pages per APUSH topic

Key Content covered is listed below. Note: I've erred on the side of detail in the PPTs and lectures, but the information is presented and organized in such a manner that it can be removed (or added!) as you see fit!

6.2 Key Content Covered:

• The Great Plains
• Economic Growth
• Comstock Lode & Nevada
• Transcontinental Railroads
• Pacific Railways Act
• Homestead Act
• New Farm Machinery (sodbuster, barbed wire, refrigerated car)
• Farmers' Grievances (debt, railroads, access to credit)
• The Grange
• Farmers' Alliances
• Colored Farmers' National Alliance

6.3 Key Content Covered:

• Migration (Foreign Immigrants, Black Americans, Cowboys)
• Impacts on Bison / Buffalo
• Indian Wars
• Custer's Last Stand
• Wounded Knee Massacre
• Indian Reservations
• Dawes Severalty Act
• Assimilation Efforts
• Burke Act
• Carlisle Indian School
• Frederick Jackson Turner & the Turner Thesis

6.4 Key Content Covered:

• The Concept: Henry W. Grady
• Industrialization
• Economic Realities: Sharecropping, Tenant Farming
• Disenfranchisement laws (i.e. grandfather clause)
• Jim Crow Segregation
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Lynchings
• Minstrel Shows
• African American Reform Efforts
• Ida B. Wells
• Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Compromise
• W.E.B. Du Bois

6.5 Key Content Covered:

• Historical Context
• Technological Advances
• Iron & steel production
• Bessemer process
• Oil refining
• Standard Oil
• Electricity
• Impacts: Communication, transportation, production
• Key inventions (elevator, skyscrapers, electric light, etc.)

6.6 Key Content Covered:

• Captains of Industry: Carnegie, Rockefeller, Sears, JP Morgan
• Carnegie Steel
• Standard Oil
• Methods of Business Consolidation
• Increased Production of Goods
• Vertical Organization
• Horizontal Organization
• Monopolies
• Trusts
• International Markets

6.7 Key Content Covered:

• Rise of Standard of Living
• Gilded Age Working Conditions
• Child Labor
• Disorganized Protest
• Molly Maguires
• Railroad Strike of 1877
• Knights of Labor
• Haymarket Square Riot
• American Federation of Labor (AFL), Samuel Gompers
• Government Response
• Carnegie Homestead Strike
• Pullman Strike
• Eugene V. Debs
• In re Debs (1895)

6.8 Key Content Covered:

• Immigration Push / Pull Factors
• "New" Immigrants vs. "Old" Immigrants
• Ellis Island
• Great Migration
• Urbanization
• Ethnic Neighborhoods
• Urban Problems & Conditions
• Tenements

6.9 Key Content Covered:

• Pressure to Assimilate
• Americanization
• Nativism
• American Protective Association
• Josiah Strong
• Immigration Restrictions
• Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
• Social Darwinism
• Jane Addams
• Settlement Houses

6.10 Key Content Covered:

• Middle-Class Characteristics
• Consumer Culture
• Leisure Time
• Sports (Baseball, Basketball)
• Theater
• Vaudevilles
• Silent Movies
• Gospel of Wealth
• Philanthropy

6.11 Key Content Covered:

• Alternative Visions of Society
• Socialist Party
• Eugene Debs & Daniel De Leon
• Henry George, Progress and Poverty
• Social Gospel
• Walter Rauschenbusch
• Women's Employment
• Women's Education
• NAWSA
• WCTU

6.12 Key Content Covered:

• The "Forgettable" Administrations
• State and Local Governments
• Laissez-faire Policies
• Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations
• Roots of American Imperialism
• Alaska
• William Seward, Seward's "Folly"
• Samoa
  

6.13 Key Content Covered:

• Major Party Issues
• Party Supporters
• Populist Party
• Silver Question
• Goldbugs vs. Silverites
• Election of 1896
• William Jennings Bryan
• "Cross of Gold" Speech
• Political Machines
• Tammany Hall