Bring the Gilded Age to life with this AP U.S. History Museum Activity focused on Topics 6.2, 6.3, and 6.5! In this engaging resource, students explore a virtual Gilded Age Museum of the West and South, analyzing primary sources, videos, and curated exhibits to investigate federal expansion, the Transcontinental Railroad, Native American assimilation and resistance, the “New South,” sharecropping, and Plessy v. Ferguson. The activity emphasizes historical thinking skills as students evaluate go