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The Rise of Industrial America from the website of   gilderlehrman.org

The Gilded Age 

The Progressive Movement: Muckrackers

The Post War South - Reconstruction, Carpetbaggers, African Americans after Slavery First African Americans in Congress.

Jim Crow South

Native Americans and the West _ Bison, Battle of Little Bighorn, Wishika Massacre, Indian Removal, Cowboys, Cattle Industry,

American Indian Wars, Dawes Act, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Wounded Knee Massacre.    

Homestead Act    Cowboys - Cattle Industry,  

The Business of America: Robber Barons -  Andrew Carnegie, JD Rockefeller, JP Morgan, Jay Gould, etc

Age of Railroads.    

Chinese as Railroad Workers 

Second Industrial Revolution, 

Inventions  & Technology: steel, oil, electricity, chemicals, automobile, electricity (Edison) Communications (Bell)

Labor Movement & Strikes (Haymarket, Pullman Strike, Wobblies)

Urban America (life in the crowded cities).   

Shame of the Cities - Slums, Tenement Housing

Lewis Hine and Child Labor

Jacob Riis- How the Other Half Lives

Immigration (who is coming?, are they welcome? How do they make out?). 

 CHECK OUT IMMIGRATION, ELLIS ISLAND, AND THE STATUE OF LIBERTY.  

Anti-Immigrant Sentiment  Nativism  

Agrarian Revolt (Populist Party) - Agriculture at this time

Corruption of City Politics: 

Bosses and Machines: Tammany Hall, Thomas Nast, Political Cartoonist