Development of the MIDDLE CLASS [APUSH Review Unit 6 Topic 10] Period 6: 1865-1898

GET FOLLOWALONG NOTEGUIDES for this video

AP HEIMLER REVIEW GUIDE (formerly known as the Ultimate Review Packet):

+APUSH Heimler Review Guide

+AP Essay CRAM Course (DBQ, LEQ, SAQ Help)

+Bundle Heimler Review Guide and Essay CRAM Course

HEIMLER’S HISTORY MERCH!

Instagram: @heimlers_history

For more videos on APUSH Unit 6, check out the playlist

In this video Heimler takes you through Unit 6 Topic 10 of the AP U.S. History curriculum which is set in period 6 (1865-1898).

During the Gilded Age, the rapid expansion of industry meant a new hierarchy for large corporations. Between the owners and the laborers, and new class of middle management workers, known as white collar workers, kept everything organized and running. Along with them came a flurry of new administrative and supportive roles, some of which offered women an expanded role in the workplace.

The expansion of middle management (along with other factors) led to the rise of the middle class in America. And these folks had enough discretionary income to insert themselves into a leisure culture, a desire met by theme parks like Coney Island and P.T. Barnum's traveling circus.

But the elite also played a role in the rise of the middle class. Wealthy men and women like Andrew Carnegie and Phoebe Apperson Hearst complied with the dictates of the Gospel of Wealth and provided society with institutions by which the poor could better themselves and, perhaps, rise into the middle class.

If you have any questions, leave them below and Heimler shall answer forthwithly.

This video is aligned with the AP U.S. History Curriculum and Exam Description for Unit 6 Topic 10, and all the key concepts thereunto appertaining.