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CHAPTER 7: GROWTH AND TRANSFORMATION
Technology and Change -- Carnegie and the Era
of Steel -- Corporations and Cities -- Railroads, Regulations and the
Tariff -- Revolution in Agriculture -- The Divided South -- The Last
Frontier -- The Plight of the Indians -- Ambivalent Empire -- The
Canal and the Americas -- United States and Asia
The
Gilded Age
From "The Richest Man in the World: Andrew
Carnegie" by PBS
Gilded
Age Links
The movement to end child labor, 1906 to 1938.
How the Other Half
Lives: Studies among the Tenements of New York
An electronic edition of Jacob Riis's 1890
book.
Sweatshops
Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution,
many generations of Americans have toiled in sweatshops. Then, as
now, their labor has been accompanied by widespread debate over what
constitutes a fair wage, reasonable working conditions, and society's
responsibility for meeting those standards.
Wilmington, N.C.,
Race
Riot, 1898
The 1898 riot and coup d'etat in Wilmington that killed an unknown number of black residents actually was a planned insurrection that white supremacists spent months organizing. The violence was part of a statewide effort -- with a pivotal role played by The News & Observer and other newspapers -- to put white supremacist Democrats in office and stem the political advances of black citizens. The incident is the only known violent overthrow of a government in U.S. history. Afterward, white supremacists in state office passed the laws that would disfranchise a race of people for generations -- until the civil rights movement and Voting Rights Act of the 1960s. From a report released in May 2006 by the state-appointed 1898 Wilmington Race Riot Commission.
Thomas
Nast
Links to samples of the best work of the
19th century's best-known political cartoonist
The
Autobiography of Geronimo
One of the best known Native American leaders
in his own words
Transcontintental
Railroad
Oakes Ames,
shown here in the painting "Driving
the Last Spike." The
Ames monument in Sherman Summit, Wyoming, was built for the Union
Pacific Railroad at the highest point on the line. It was designed by
architect
Henry Hobson Richardson, who also designed many Easton landmarks. More
on
the Ames brothers,
from Stonehill College. Oakes and
Blanche Ames from the Borderland website. Entries on the Credit
Mobilier scandal of the 1870s from Infoplease
and "American
Passages."
The
Open Door
John Hay to Andrew D. White, Sept. 6
1899
Miltary
history, late
1800s
Miltary
history, Spanish-American War