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History of the United States II
1865 to the Present
Unit 2: The Gilded Age
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Industrial Supremacy
Steel and stockyards are featured in this program as the mighty engine of industrialism thunders forward at the end of the nineteenth century. Professor Miller continues the story of the American Industrial Revolution in New York and Chicago, looking at the lives of Andrew Carnegie, Gustavus Swift, and the countless workers in the packinghouse and on the factory floor.
Program 14: Industrial Supremacy (Transcript) (Broadband Video on Demand) 

The New City
Professor Miller explores the tension between the messy vitality of cities that grow on their own and those where orderly growth is planned. Chicago - with Hull House, the World’s Columbian Exposition, the new female workforce, the skyscraper, the department store, and unfettered capitalism - is the place to watch a new world in the making at the turn of the century.
Program 15: The New City (Transcript) (Broadband Video on Demand) 

The West
Professor Scharff continues the story of Jefferson’s Empire of Liberty. Railroads and ranchers, rabble-rousers and racists populate America’s distant frontiers, and Native Americans are displaced from their homelands. Feminists gain a foothold in their fight for the right to vote, while farmers organize and the Populist Party appears on the American political landscape.
Program 16 : The West (Transcript) (Broadband Video on Demand) 

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Chapter 8: Growth & Transformation Outline of American History
  • Technology and Change
  • Carnegie and the Era of Steel
  • Corporations and Cities
  • Railroads, Regulations and the Tariff
  • Revolution in Agriculture
  • The Divided South

    Basic Reading in U.S. Democracy
    PART V: INDUSTRIAL AMERICA

      28. Pendleton Act (1883)
      29. People's Party Platform (1896)
    • Lectures
    Sparknotes The Gilded Age

    Go to Pink Monkey
    click on Enter then click on study guides and then on American History
    Chapter 7 The Age of Transformation

  • Chronology of Major Events in this Period
  • The Growth of Industry
  • Agriculture
  • Settlement in the West and the Indians
  • Rise of Reform Movements ’
  • Womens Rights Movement
  • Rise of Labor Movement

    Lecture 3: Which "Old West" and Whose? (Schultz)

    The Gilded Age - American West (Rankin)

    Click on Empire The Cooperative Commonwealth (Rutledge)
    Click on Native Americans Historical survey, with emphasis on late 19th Century (Rutledge)
    Click on Survival The Oklahoma Land Rush (Rutledge)
    Click on Incorporation Packingtown, Chicago, Illinois (Rutledge)

    Industrial Expansion 1860-1890 Mayer
    The Taking of the West From Native America Mayer
    Immigrants,Urbanization and Women Reformers Mayer
    The Progressive Era Mayer
    Spanish American War 1898 Mayer
    Late Gilded Age, 1890 to World War I Mayer

    • Quiz

  • The American People - Brief Edition (Nash)
    The Realities of Rural America (Nash) or Sixth Edition (Nash)
  • The American People - Brief Edition (Nash)
    ">The Rise of Smokestack America (Nash) or Sixth Edition (Nash)

    • Library

    Bibliography from Biography of America

    Resources

    Read
    Henry George Progress and Poverty [currently NA]

    Browse The American West page. Also follow links to Native American sites.

    A look at American History by examining the life and times of each President Start here and click on Presidential Biographies.

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes
  • James Abram Garfield
  • Chester Alan Arthur
  • Grover Cleveland
  • Benjamin Harrison
  • Grover Cleveland
  • William McKinley

    The following provide a brief biography and many links:

  • Rutherford Birchard Hayes, 1877-1881 (POTUS)
  • James Abram Garfield, 1881 (POTUS)
  • Chester Alan Arthur, 1881-1885 (POTUS)
  • Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 (POTUS)
  • Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1893 (POTUS)
  • Grover Cleveland, 1893-1897 (POTUS)
  • William McKinley, 1897-1901 (POTUS)

    There are extensive links for each program in the Biography of America series. Click on the Homepage then click on the program, and then on Webography.

    From American Memory by the Library of Congress. Follow the links.
    Rise of Industrial America, 1876-1900

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