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Readings Handout #11
Dr. Rezelman

 

The "Gilded Age," 1877-1900
 
  1. Industrialization
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Gilded Age"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Golden Spike Ceremony"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Robber Barons"  (1 page)
      4. American History: "Andrew Carnegie"  (3 pages)
      5. American History: "J. P. Morgan"  (2 pages)
      6. American History: "John D. Rockefeller"  (3 pages)
      7. American History: "Thomas Edison"  (2 pages)
      8. American History: "Frederick W. Taylor"  (2 pages)
      9. DAH: "Ellis Island"  (1 page)
      10. DAH: "Tenements"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Industrial Revolution"  (4 pages)
      2. American History: "Industrial Revolution"  (3 pages)
      3. DAH: "Transcontinental Railroad, Building of"  (1 page)
      4. DAH: "Railroads"  (12 pages)
      5. DAH: "Steam Power and Engines"  (2 pages)
      6. DAH: "Steamboats"  (2 pages)
      7. ANB: "Carnegie, Andrew"  (11 pages)
      8. ANB: "Morgan, John Pierpont"  (11 pages)
      9. ANB: "Rockefeller, John D."  (6 pages)
      10. American History: "Standard Oil Company"  (3 pages)
      11. DAH: "Standard Oil Company"  (2 pages)
      12. American History: "Leland Stanford"  (3 pages)
      13. ANB: "Stanford, Leland"  (3 pages)
      14. American History: "Cornelius Vanderbilt"  (3 pages)
      15. ANB: "Vanderbilt, Cornelius"  (4 pages)
      16. DAH: "Scientific Management"  (3 pages)
      17. ANB: "Taylor, Frederick Winslow"  (3 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Birds of Passage"  (1 paragraph)
      2. DAH: "Immigration"  (15 pages)
      3. DAH: "Chinese Exclusion Act"  (half a page)
      4. DAH: "Urbanization"  (7 pages)
         
  2. Responses to Industrialization
    1. main readings
      1. American History: "Knights of Labor"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Haymarket Square Riot"  (half a page)
      3. American History: "American Federation of Labor"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Samuel Gompers"  (2 pages)
      5. DAH: "Pullman Strike"  (1 page)
      6. EBO: "Sherman Antitrust Act"  (1 page)
      7. American History: "Mark Twain"  (3 pages)
      8. DAH: "Nativism"  (2 pages)
      9. American History: "Booker T. Washington"  (2 pages)
      10. American History: "W. E. B. Du Bois"  (3 pages)
        bulletbe sure to put a space between "Du" and "Bois"
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Knights of Labor"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Terence Powderly"  (2 pages)
      3. ANB: "Powderly, Terence Vincent"  (4 pages)
      4. ANB: "Gompers, Samuel"  (6 pages)
      5. DAH: "American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations" (AFL-CIO)  (5 pages)
      6. DAH: "Homestead Strike"  (1 paragraph)
      7. ANB: "Berkman, Alexander"  (3 pages)
      8. ANB: "Frick, Henry Clay"  (5 pages)
      9. DAH: "Sherman Antitrust Act"  (3 pages)
      10. ANB: "Alger, Horatio, Jr."  (4 pages)
      11. ANB: "Twain, Mark"  (14 pages)
      12. ANB: "Washington, Booker T."  (7 pages)
      13. ANB: "DuBois, W. E. B."  (8 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Labor"  (8 pages)
      2. DAH: "Strikes"  (6 pages)
      3. DAH: "Niagara Movement"  (1 page)
      4. American History: "George Washington Carver"  (2 pages)
         
  3. The Wild (?) West
    1. main readings
      1. United States at War: "Sand Creek Massacre"  (2 pages)
      2. American History: "Sitting Bull"  (2 pages)
      3. American History: "Chief Joseph"  (2 pages)
      4. American History: "Geronimo"  (2 pages)
      5. American History: "Wounded Knee Massacre"  (2 pages)
      6. EBO: "Homestead Movement"  (1 page)
      7. EBO: "Earp, Wyatt (Berry Stapp)"  (1 page)
      8. ANB: "James, Jesse"  (3 pages)
      9. ANB: "Cody, William Frederick"  ("Buffalo Bill")  (3 pages)
      10. EBO: "Turner, Frederick Jackson"  (3 pages)
      11. DAH: "Granger Movement"  (2 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Little Bighorn, Battle of"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Sand Creek Massacre"  (1 page)
      3. American History: "George Armstrong Custer"  (2 pages)
      4. ANB: "Sitting Bull"  (3 pages)
      5. American History: "Crazy Horse"  (2 pages)
      6. DAH: "Nez Perce War"  (1 page)
      7. ANB: "Joseph"  (3 pages)
      8. DAH: "Apache Wars"  (2 pages)
      9. American History: "Cochise"  (2 pages)
      10. ANB: "Geronimo"  (2 pages)
      11. DAH: "Dawes General Allotment Act"  (1 page)
      12. DAH: "Wounded Knee Massacre"  (1 page)
      13. DAH: "Ghost Dance"  (1 page)
      14. ANB: "Billy the Kid"  (2 pages)
      15. ANB: "Earp, Wyatt"  (3 pages)
      16. ANB: "Garrett, Pat"  (2 pages)
      17. ANB: "Doc Holliday"  (2 pages)
      18. ANB: "Masterson, Bat"  (2 pages)
      19. DAH: "Homestead Movement"  (2 pages)
      20. ANB: "Kelley, Oliver Hudson"  (3 pages)
      21. American History: "Frederick Jackson Turner, The Significance of the Frontier in American History (1893)"  (16 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. DAH: "Westward Migration"  (6 pages)
      2. DAH: "Indian Land Cessions"  (5 pages)
      3. DAH: "Wars with Indian Nations"  (12 pages)
         
  4. Politics in the "Gilded Age"
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Spoils System"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "William Marcy Tweed"  (2 pages)
      3. DAH: "Populism"  (3 pages)
      4. EBO: "Free Silver Movement"  (1 page)
      5. EBO: "Cross of Gold Speech"  (1 paragraph)
      6. American History: "William McKinley"  (3 pages)
    2. suggested readings
      1. American History: "Tammany Hall"  (1 page)
      2. American History: "Chester Arthur"  (2 pages)
      3. ANB: "Weaver, James Baird"  (4 pages)
      4. ANB: "Bryan, William Jennings"  (6 pages)
      5. DAH: "Free Silver"  (1 page)
      6. American History: "William Jennings Bryan: Cross of Gold Speech (1896)"  (5 pages)
      7. ANB: "McKinley, William"  (6 pages)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "Thomas Nast"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Tweed Ring"  (1 paragraph)
      3. DAH: "Machine, Political"  (1 page)
         
  5. American Imperialism
    1. main readings
      1. DAH: "Imperialism"  (first 3 of 6 pages)
      2. DAH: "Cuba, Relations with"  (first 2 of 5 pages)
      3. DAH: "Yellow Journalism"  (1 page)
      4. American History: "Spanish-American War"  (2 pages)
      5. DAH: "Philippine Insurrection"  (2 pages)
      6. United States at War: "Emilio Aguinaldo"  (2 pages)
      7. United States at War: "Filipino Nationalist Army"  (2 pages)
      8. Mark Twain, "The War Prayer"  (3 pages) 
    2. suggested readings
      1. DAH: "Hawaii"  (5 pages)
      2. American History: "Alfred Thayer Mahan"  (2 pages)
      3. ANB: "Mahan, Alfred Thayer"  (5 pages)
      4. DAH: "Spanish-American War"  (2 pages)
      5. EBO: "Hay, John (Milton)"  (1 page)
      6. American History: "Joseph Pulitzer"  (2 pages)
      7. DAH: "Maine, Sinking of the"  (1 page)
      8. American History: "Battle of Manila Bay"  (half a page)
      9. DAH: "Spanish-American War, Navy in"  (1 page)
    3. A.P. readings
      1. American History: "William Randolph Hearst"  (2 pages)
      2. DAH: "Anti-Imperialists"  (1 page)
      3. DAH: "Open Door Policy"  (2 pages)

 

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