Gilded Age: Vocabulary


U.S. History Gilded Age Gilded Age: Vocabulary
Students engage with key vocabulary related to the Gilded Age in U.S. history. The experience can be used as an introduction or a review at the end of the unit.

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In this experience, students engage with key vocabulary related to the Gilded Age in U.S. history. The experience can be used as an introduction or a review at the end of the unit.

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In this unit you will learn about the Gilded Age in the last few decades of the nineteenth century. This period had significant population and economic growth across the United States. Yet not everyone benefitted from these developments. In this lesson you will learn some of the key vocabulary for the unit.


Which of the following words are you familiar with?

A) assimilation
B) corruption
C) immigration
D) industrialization
E) labor union
F) monopoly
G) nativism
H) philanthropy
I) robber baron
J) segregation
K) settlement
L) urbanization

Which of the following words are you unfamiliar with?

A) assimilation
B) corruption
C) immigration
D) industrialization
E) labor union
F) monopoly
G) nativism
H) philanthropy
I) robber baron
J) segregation
K) settlement
L) urbanization

These polls provide a general picture of the students’ familiarity with the vocabulary words. If necessary, discuss unfamiliar words with the class.


very ornately decorated room in a mansion

The music room of The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in Newport, Rhode Island


Look at the photograph. What do you see that possibly represents the Gilded Age? If you aren’t familiar with the word gilded, look it up in a dictionary.

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The adjective gilded has two main meanings:

  • covered with a thin layer of gold
  • having a pleasing appearance that covers something of little value
Much of the room’s furniture and wall decorations are gilded. Obviously the owners of the mansion (the Vanderbilt family) were very rich. Students will learn about the source of the term Gilded Age in a later lesson.


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