An Extreme Rap Activity

Q.1

Type your first and last name. *

First Name

Last Name

Q.2

Type your homeroom here. *

Q.3

What do you think the first stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

If you listen up, a story will be told
Of people and power, greed and gold
Railroads, Robber Barons, Carnegie Steel
Morgan's got money, Ford's got wheels

Q.4

What do you think the second stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Gold in the Yukon, gold in the cross
Oil in Texas, and Rock's the boss
These dudes had the House in those days
Grant was a general, and then there's Hayes

Q.5

What do you think the third stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Garfield drops, Arthur steps in
Cleveland is followed by Harrison
Cleveland is back, then McKinley (like the hill)
TR and Taft, Wilson hates to kill

Q.6

What do you think the fourth stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Muckrakers, Magazines, Sam McClure,
Squealed on Rockefeller's Standard Oil
Mark Twain, Jack London, Ida Tarbell
And Old Mother Jones says raise more... well.....

Q.7

What do you think the fifth stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Jim Crow is jumping, but Booker's got voice
Black Folk, soul folk, Mr. DuBois
Geronimo, Custer, a man named Horse
A Wounded Knee will hurt, of course

Q.8

What do you think the sixth stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Sweatshops, doors locked, Triangle Fire
Twelve hour days and children for hire
Haymarket, Homestead, Pullman Strikes
Edison brings us electric lights

Q.9

What do you think the seventh stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Skyscrapers, backbreakers, Brooklyn Bridge
Gompers, Wobblies, Eugene Debs
Immigrants, tenements, No Chinese
Populists rise up, farmers get the squeeze

Q.10

What do you think the eighth stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

Down in Havana, blow up the Maine
Teddy's Big Stick and war with Spain
A canal in Panama, two brothers that float
Ladies still fussing for the women's vote

Q.11

What do you think the ninth stanza is telling you about the Gilded Age? *

The Gilded Age was full of extremes,
Recite this rap you'll know what I mean