| Description |
191 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. |
| Series |
Pages from history |
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Pages from history.
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| Contents |
What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- Big business, industry, and the American dream -- Captains of industry ; Muckraking ; Survival of the fittest ; Responsibilities of the rich ; From rags to riches -- Immigration to a promised land -- Arrival ; Opportunity ; Sacrifices ; Racism ; Advice -- Sorrows of labor -- Knights of labor ; Haymarket Affair ; Trade unions ; Industrial unions ; Women in the work force ; Child labor ; Homestead Lockout -- Perils and promise of urban life -- Social activism ; Social Darwinism ; Ward bosses ; Prohibition -- Jacob Riis and the power of the photograph -- New South -- Sharecropper's contract ; Perfect democracy ; Cotton mill workers ; Rise of Jim Crow -- West -- Indian victory ; Whitening Indians ; Pioneers ; Exodusters ; Mexican Americans fight back -- Farmers' revolt -- Farmers' alliances ; Populist Party ; Election 1896 -- United States builds an empire -- Spanish-American War ; Anti-imperialism ; Philippines -- New women, strenuous men, and leisure -- Strenuous life ; Sports ; Rebellious women. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 182-183) and index. |
| Summary |
Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration. |
| Subject |
United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Sources -- Juvenile literature.
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United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources.
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| Added Author |
Greenwood, Janette Thomas.
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| ISBN |
0195105230 (acid-free paper) |
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