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American History and Geography

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Immigration, Industrialization, and Urbanization

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Reform

I.A

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Immigration

I.B

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Industrialization and Urbanization

I.A.1

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Waves of new immigrants from about 1830 onward

I.A.2

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The tension between ideals and realities

I.B.1

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The post-Civil War industrial boom

I.B.2

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The condition of labor

I.B.3

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The growing influence of big business: industrialists and capitalists

I.B.4

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“Free enterprise” vs. government regulation of business: Interstate Commerce Act and Sherman Antitrust Act attempt to limit power of monopolies

II.A.1

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Populism

II.A.2

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The Progressive Era “Muckraking”: Ida Tarbell on the Standard Oil Company; Upton Sinclair, The Jungle, on the meat packing industry

II.A.3

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Reform for African-Americans

II.A.4

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Women’s suffrage

I.A.1.1

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Great migrations from Ireland (potato famine), Germany, and Russia (pogroms)

I.A.1.2

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From about 1880 on, many immigrants arrive from southern and eastern Europe.

I.A.1.3

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Immigrants from Asian countries, especially China

I.A.1.4

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Ellis Island, “The New Colossus” (poem on the Statue of Liberty, written by Emma Lazarus)

I.A.1.5

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Large populations of immigrants settle in major cities, including New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Detroit, Cleveland, Boston, San Francisco.

I.A.2.1

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The metaphor of America as a “melting pot” or “mosaic”

I.A.2.2

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America perceived as “land of opportunity” vs. resistance, discrimination, and “nativism”

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Resistance to Catholics and Jews

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Chinese Exclusion Act

I.B.1.1

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The “Gilded Age”

I.B.1.2

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The growing gap between social classes

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Horatio Alger and the “rags to riches” story

I.B.1.4

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Growth of industrial cities: Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh

I.B.1.5

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Many thousands of African-Americans move north.

I.B.1.6

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Urban corruption, “machine” politics: “Boss” Tweed in New York City, Tammany Hall

I.B.2.1

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Factory conditions: “sweat shops,” long work hours, low wages, women and child laborers

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Unions: American Federation of Labor, Samuel Gompers

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Strikes and retaliation: Haymarket Square; Homestead, Pennsylvania

I.B.2.4

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Labor Day

I.B.3.1

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“Captains of industry” and “robber barons”: Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Morgan, Cornelius Vanderbilt

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New inventions and patents

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John D. Rockefeller and the Standard Oil Company as an example of the growing power of monopolies and trusts

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Capitalists as philanthropists (funding museums, libraries, universities, etc.)

II.A.1.1

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Discontent and unrest among farmers

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The gold standard vs. “free silver”

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William Jennings Bryan

II.A.2.1

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Jane Addams: settlement houses

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Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives: tenements and ghettos in the modern city

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President Theodore (Teddy) Roosevelt: conservation and trust-busting

II.A.3.1

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Ida B. Wells: campaign against lynching

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Booker T. Washington: Tuskegee Institute, Atlanta Exposition Address, “Cast down your bucket where you are”

II.A.3.3

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W. E. B. DuBois: founding of NAACP, “The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color line,” The Souls of Black Folk

II.A.4.1

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Susan B. Anthony

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Nineteenth Amendment (1920)

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The Socialist critique of America: Eugene V. Debs

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