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Unit 6: Period 6: 1865–1898

Responses to Immigration in the Gilded Age

Explain how Americans met Gilded Age immigration, from Americanization and settlement houses to Chinese exclusion and Social Darwinism, and how immigrants adapted.

Topic 6.9 · 12 min read

This lesson comes with the AP United States History plan

In this lesson

  1. 01Americanization and how immigrants adapted
  2. 02Nativism and restriction
  3. 03Social Darwinism: success as natural selection
  4. 04Settlement houses
  5. 05Worked examples
  6. 06Where students lose points
  7. 07On the exam

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