Series Editors Preface ix Acknowledgments to Sources xii Introduction 1 Prelude: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age 11 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from The Gilded Age , 1873 Part I New Frontiers 17 1 The New South 19 1 Henry W. Grady, The New South, 1886 19 2 Henry McNeal Turner on African American Civil Rights, 1889 22 3 William D. Kelley, from The Old South and New , 1888 26 4 Lewis Hine, Photographs of Southern Textile Workers, 1908 9 31 2 The New West 34 1 T.S. Kenderdine, from California Revisited, 1858 897 , 1898 34 2 Theodore Roosevelt, from Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail , 1888 39 3 Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, from The Squatter and the Don , (1885) 42 4 Workingmen s Party, An Address from the Workingmen of San Francisco to Their Brothers throughout the Pacific Coast, 1878 48 3 Native Americans 51 1 Zitkala Sa, Native Americans and White Attempts to Assimilate, from The School Days of an Indian Girl, 1900 51 2 Chief Joseph, Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perce Chief, 1877 9 54 3 Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee , 1896 57 4 Photographs and Images from Buffalo Bill s Wild West Show, 1896 9 62 Part II Industrial Society 65 4 Big Business 67 1 Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth, 1889 67 2 Herbert Spencer, The Coming Slavery, 1884 70 3 Henry Demarest Lloyd, The Lords of Industry, 1884 72 4 US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases , 1873 77 5 Frederick Winslow Taylor, from The Principles of Scientific Management , 1911 83 6 Russell Conwell, from Acres of Diamonds , 1915 89 5 Gilded Age Society 98 1 Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class , 1899 98 2 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from The Yellow Wall Paper, 1892 104 3 Henry George, from Progress and Poverty , 1879 109 4 Photographs of Gilded Age Mansions 112 5 Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Woman s Building, from The Book of the Fair , 1893 114 6 Working People 120 1 Stephen Crane, In the Depths of a Coal Mine, 1894 120 2 Walter A. Wyckoff, from The Workers: An Experiment in Social Reality , 1899 125 3 Image from The National Police Gazette , 1879 129 4 Edward Eggleston, Hardshell Preacher, from The Hoosier Schoolmaster , 1871 130 5 Leon Ray Livingston, Tramping in America, 1910 135 6 Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle , 1906 141 7 Immigrants in the Industrial Age 147 1 Abraham Cahan, The Russian Jew in America, 1898 147 2 Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880 153 3 Samuel Bryan, Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth, 1912 157 4 Jacob Riis, Photographs from How the Other Half Lives, 1890 163 5 Theodore Roosevelt, Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 165 6 The Emergence of Reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885 169 Part III Social Conflict 175 8 Populism 177 1 Annie L. Diggs, The Women in the Alliance Movement, 1892 177 2 The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party, 1892 183 3 Thomas E. Watson, The Negro Question in the South, 1892 188 4 William Jennings Bryan, Cross of Gold Speech, 1896 194 9 The Coming of Jim Crow 201 1 Ida B. Wells, Lynch Law in America, 1900 201 2 U.S. Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896 204 3 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 209 4 W.E.B. Du Bois, Of Booker T. Washington and Others, from The Souls of Black Folk , 1903 212 5 Images from the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign, 1898 216 6 Mary Church Terrell, What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States, 1906 218 10 Labor Protest 223 1 Roger O Mara, Testimony on Railroad Labor Strikes, 1878 223 2 United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 227 3 Constance D. Leupp, The Shirtwaist Makers Strike, 1909 231 4 Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 236 Part IV Reform 241 11 Rebuilding American Institutions 243 1 John Dewey, from The School and Society , 1899 243 2 Walter Rauschenbusch, from Christianity and the Social Crisis , 1907 247 3 Charles Davenport, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics , 1915 250 4 Margaret Sanger, Morality and Birth Control , 1918 253 5 Frances E. Willard, from Women and Temperance , 1883 256 6 Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911 260 12 The Political System 266 1 Robert M. La Follette, Peril in the Machine, 1897 266 2 Isaac F. Marcosson, The Dayton Plan, 1914 274 3 Helen Valeska Bary, The Suffrage Movement in Southern California, 1910 1 278 4 Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution (direct election of senators), 1913 283 5 Marie Jenney Howe on Women s Public Role, 1910 284 Part V Imperialism and War 291 13 Imperialism and Anti imperialism 293 1 Mayo W. Hazeltine, What Shall Be Done about the Philippines? 1897 293 2 Platt Amendment, 1901 299 3 Jane Addams, Democracy or Militarism, 1899 301 4 Photograph from the Tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907 9 304 14 The Debate about World War I 306 1 W.E.B. Du Bois on the Postwar Peace, 1918 306 2 Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Anti War Speech, 1918 307 3 Espionage Act, 1917 311 4 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 315 Further Reading 321 Index 325
