Chapter 18: The New Social Patterns Of Gilded Age America, 1865 - 1917

After reading this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Analyze the development of urban America and discuss the challenges faced by city dwellers and how they dealt with these obstacles.
   
   
2. Explain why immigrants were attracted to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Discuss what these newcomers found when they arrived and whether or not they assimilated successfully.
   
   
3. Explain the term New South and what it meant to white and African-American residents of the region.
   
   
4. Analyze the social and economic trends of the late nineteenth century.