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Defining Documents in American History: The Emergence of Modern America (1874–1917)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




The End of the Frontier and the Start of a New Era




“The Rush to Oklahoma”




“The Significance of the Frontier in American History”




Labor Pains




“Account of the Haymarket Riot”




Eugene Debs: “What Can We Do for Working People?”




Frick’s Fracas: Henry Frick Makes His Case




The Homestead Strike: A Congressional View




Senator Sherman on the Pullman Strike




Coal Strike Hearings: The Miners Testify




“Echoes from the Recent Pennsylvania Coal Strike”




The Lives of Workers




From How the Other Half Lives




An Immigrant Garment Worker’s “Days and Dreams”




Jane Addams: “Child Labor and Other Dangers of Childhood”




From The Jungle




Child Labor in the New York City Tenements




Fire Hazards in New York City Factories




Capital Concerns




Wall Street Owns the Country




Populist Party Platform, 1892




President Grover Cleveland on Repeal of the Sherman Silver Purchase Act




“Political Causes of the Business Depression”




Andrew Carnegie: “The Gospel of Wealth”




Conflicts Farther Afield




Queen Liliuokalani to President Benjamin Harrison




Report on the Battle of Santiago




Platform of the American Anti-Imperialist League




“Subjugation on the Philippines Iniquitous”




The War Prayer




US-Mexico Tensions




Minorities and Mistreatments




Chinese Exclusion Act




Address of the Lake Mohonk Conference on Indian Affairs




Plessy v. Ferguson




W.E.B. Du Bois: “Strivings of the Negro People”




W.E.B. Du Bois: “The Study of the Negro Problems”




A Mississippi Governor Opposes Black Education




“What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the U.S.A.”




A Skeptical View of Mexican Immigrants in the United States




W.E.B. Du Bois: “Socialism and the Negro Problem”




Women, Suffrage, and Society




Petition to US Congress for Women’s Suffrage




Frances Willard: Address to the National Council of Women




From Youth’s Educator for Home and Society




On American Motherhood




“Women’s Suffrage in a Democratic Republic”




Petition from the Women Voters Anti-Suffrage Party




Reformers and Remedies




“The Absurd Effort to Make the World Over”




Frances Willard on Christian Social Responsibility




Jane Addams on Settlement Houses




John Dewey on Social Organization and the Individual




President Theodore Roosevelt on the Conservation of Natural Resources




Declaration of the Conservation Conference




An Argument for Prohibition




A Technological Breakthrough




The Wright Brothers’ First Powered Flight




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography