The emergence of modern America (1874-1917) / editor, Michael Shally-Jensen, PhD.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shally-Jensen, Michael, editor.

Series:

Defining documents in American history (Salem Press)

Defining Documents in American History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--History--1865-1921--Sources.

United States.

United States--Economic conditions--1865-1921--Sources.

United States--Social conditions--1865-1921--Sources.

United States--Foreign relations--1865-1921--Sources.

Working class--United States--History--Sources.

Working class.

Minorities--United States--History--Sources.

Minorities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 332 pages).

Place of Publication:

Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, a division of EBSCO Information Services : Grey House Publishing, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This resource provides readers with new ways to explore the emergence of modern America in the years of 1874 to 1917. The text provides in-depth analysis of over sixty primary source documents to deliver a thorough examination of this important time in American history.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 22, 2014).

ISBN:

9781619254909

1619254905

OCLC:

1013506974