Unit 5: Growing to Meet Challenges | American Republic

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Chapter 17: Industrialism

Immigration

• Ellis Island—Visual tour, timeline, videos, pictures, and much more
• Ellis Island.org
• Jacob Riis—How the other Half Lives (1890)
• John R. Commons—Races and Immigrants in America (1907)
• Samuel Joseph—Jewish Immigration to the United States from 1881 to 1910 (1914)

Transportation and Technology

• William Francis Bailey—The Story of the First Trans-Continental Railroad (1906)
• Robert Louis Stevenson—Across the Plains(1892)
• Alexander Graham Bell
  • Popular Science Monthly
  • Britannica
• Thomas Edison
• George Westinghouse

New Business

• The New Industrial Era: the Rise of Andrew Carnegie—Links to many topics related to industrial history, especially the rise of Andrew Carnegie
• John Rockefeller Senior—Exclusive biography of Rockefeller
• Carnegie—The Gospel of Wealth (1889)
• John D. Rockefeller—Random Reminiscences of Men and Events (1909)
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act
• Haymarket Square Riot
  • English-German poster
  • “Address of August Spies”

Effects of Industrialism on society

• Jack London
  • Britannica
  • parks.sonoma
  • ruins of Wolf House
  • Wolf House—possible causes of its destruction
• Samuel Gompers—Audio clip of voice of Gompers
• Jonstown Flood of 1889
  • History of the Johnstown Flood—History of the flood with pictures and other sources
  • Survivor Stories
  • National Park Service
  • James Herbert Walker—The Johnstown Horror!!!, or, Valley of Death, being A Complete and Thrilling Account of the Awful Floods and Their Appalling Ruin(1889)
  • Survivor account—Victor Heiser, age 16

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Chapter 18: The Last Frontier

• Directory of Online Resources on the History of the American West—Numerous links to various aspects of history of Western frontier

Miners

• Comstock Lode
• Homestake Mine
• William Jennings Bryan—“Cross of Gold Speech” (July 9, 1896)

Cowboys

• PBS
• Journal of the Old West (includes texts to popular folk songs)
• Britannica
• Andy Adams—Anthony Cowman Reed: An Autobiography (1907)
• Chisholm Trail
• Goodnight-Loving Trail
• Charles Goodnight
• Black Cowboys—Information on the role of black cowboys in the West

Homesteaders

• Homestead Act (1862)
• Oklahoma Land Rush
• Joseph Glidden Homestead & Historical Center

Outlaws and Lawmen

• Jesse and Frank James
  • the wild west.org
  • Britannica

Indians

• Massacre at Wounded Knee, 1890:
  • Lakota accounts of the massacre, PBS
  • Eye-witness Account
• Dalton Gang
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Dawes Act (1887)

Presidents

• James A. Garfield
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Cente
  • nps. gov
  • Inaugural Address
• Chester A. Arthur
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Center
  • Addresses and Proclamations
• Grover Cleveland
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Center
  • Addresses
• Benjamin Harrison
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Center
  • Addresses and Executive Orders

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Chapter 19: America and the World

• Alaska Purchase (1867)
• Annexation of the Hawaiian Islands (1898)
• John Muir—Travels in Alaska (1915)
• Spanish American War
• Philippine-American War
• De Lôme Letter (1898)
• Alfred T. Mahan—Lessons of the War with Spain, and other Articles (1899)
• Battle of San Juan Hill
• Spanish-American War Resources—Various sources from Library of Congress on the war
• Spanish-American War Centennial Website—Extensive resource on the war
• Theodore Roosevelt—The Rough Riders (1899)
• Treaty of Paris (1898)
• Platt amendment (1901)
• Emilio Aguinaldo—Inaugural Address (1899)
• State of the Nation Address (1898)
• Foreign Policy
  • Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty (Nov. 18, 1903)
  • Boxer Rebellion
  • Treaty of Kanagawa
• Joseph Pulitzer—Site on Joseph Pulitzer and his New York World newspaper (also look at numbers 2-11 at the bottom of the page.)

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Chapter 20: Progressivism

• Resources on the Gilded Age and Progressive Era—Includes numerous sources on various topics.

Changes in American Society

• Booker T. Washington
  • Writings, including Up from Slavery
  • PBS
  • nps.gov
• George Washington Carver
  • nps.gov Legends of Tuskegee
  • nps.gov national monument
• Samuel Clemens
  • Works
  • PBS
  • Britannica
• “Shoeless” Joe Jackson
• “Babe” George Herman Ruth
• Joe Tinker

Changes in Religion

• Mary Baker Eddy
  • Manual of the Mother Church, The First Church of Christ Scientist in Boston, Massachusetts (1895)
  • Science and Health, with Key to the Scriptures
• Charles Taze Russell
• William Miller—Britannica
• Robert Ingersoll
  • “What I want for Christmas” (December 1897)
  • “Should Infidels Send their Children to Sunday School?”
  • “Some Mistakes of Moses”
• Charles Sheldon—In His Steps (1897)
• Dwight L. Moody
  • Christianity Today.com
  • Moody’s Stories: Incidents and Illustrations(1884)
• James M. Gray
  • Moody.edu
  • cyber hymnal.org
• R. A. Torrey
  • Moody.edu
  • The Person and Work of the Holy Spirit (1910)
• Billy Sunday
  • picture
  • sermons
• Mel Trotter
• The Salvation Army
• Fanny Crosby
  • “Rescue the Perishing”
  • Britannica

Progressivism

• William Jennings Bryan—Books, Speeches, and Addresses
• William Marcy “Boss” Tweed
• Thomas Nast
  • osu.edu
  • Britannica
• Upton Sinclair- The Jungle (1906)
• Jane Addams
  • “Why Women should Vote” (1915)
  • The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1930)
  • Twenty Years at Hull House; with Autobiographical Notes (1910)

Progressive Presidents

• Theodore Roosevelt
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Center
  • Addresses, Speeches, and other works (including the Roosevelt Corollary)
• William Howard Taft
  • whitehouse.gov
  • Miller Center
  • Addresses and other works
• Woodrow Wilson
• whitehouse.gov
• Miller Center
• Addresses, Speeches, and other works
• Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
• Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890