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Files
Assignment Sheet Gilded Age 1865-1900
AMSCO Ch. 16 PPT Notes: The Last West: Cowboys and Indians
Ch 23 PPT Notes: The Gilded Age Presidents
Ch. 24 PPT Class Notes: The New Industrial Age
Ch 24 PPT Notes: Age of Industry
Ch. 25 Immigration and Urbanization PPT
Immigration Directions
Immigration Excel Spreadsheet
Census information: US Population
Census information: Immigration: Fiscal Years 1820-2000
Extra Credit (5 points): chart the total number of immgrants and the percentage of immigrants in the same chart
Immigration Extra Credit - 15 points
Go to Ellis Island.org’s page on “The Peopling of America” http://www.ellisisland.org/immexp/wseix_4_3.asp?
Click on the different time periods. Describe and compare the nationalities
of the people coming into America during those time periods. What accounts for the changes in nationalities during the
major time periods listed? What actions by the U.S. government were the most
important in shaping immigration policies during the course of the nation’s
history? Why? Email this answer in at least 300 words.
The Mega-PowerPoint Notes
Ch. 23: Political Paralysis in the Gilded Age, 1869-1896
Ch. 24: Industry Comes of Age, 1865-1900
Ch. 25: American Moves to the City, 1865-1900
Ch. 26: The Great West and the Agricultural Revolution, 1865-1896
Ch. 27: Empire and Expansion, 1890-1909
Documents
Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1899
W.E.B. Du Bois, Niagra Movement Speech, Harpers Ferry, 1906
Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896; Plessy at Oyez.org
The Wealthiest Americans Ever - New York Times graphic
Andrew Carnegie, "The Gospel of Wealth", 1889
The Rockefeller Archive Center: In Their Own Words
Cornelius Vanderbilt, biography at Wikipedia
John Pierpont Morgan and the American Corporation, from Biography of America
J.P. Morgan, at MSN Encarta
The Populist Party Platform, 1892
Munn v. Illinois, 1877
The New York Times, "Report on Chicago Strike" (Pullman Strike), November 13, 1894
Eugene Debs, You Railroad Men, pamphlet, 1906
Samuel Gompers, Labor's service to freedom, 1918 speech (audio and text at the Library of Congress American Memory site)
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives, 1890
Henry Cabot Lodge, The Restriction of Immigration, speech before the US Senate, 1909
Links
The Eugene Debs Internet Archive
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