Gilded Age and Progressive Era

by Valentine, Rebecca

• ISBN13: 9781414401942
• ISBN10: 1414401949
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-12-08
• Publisher: Uxl

Summary

Helping students relate to the significant social and culture changes that occurred in the years 1878-1913, Gilded Age and Progressive Era Reference Library has the details and vital connections largely missing in other references. The Almanac focuses on key topics, such as the labor movement, immigration, industrialism, corruption, development of the middle class, muckraking, the assembly line, the Titanic and child labor. Throughout are numerous illustrations and interesting sidebars make it easy to understand the political climate, people and events that shaped the time. In addition to providing further reading suggestions and research and activity ideas, a chronology framing events in the wider context, words to know section for additional clarification, and a subject index making it easy to locate target information.

Table of Contents

Reader's Guide	vii
Timeline of Events	xi
Words to Know	xxiii
Research and Activity Ideas	xxxi
A Country at Odds with Itself	1	(20)
The Industrialization of America	21	(18)
Heartache and Hardships of the Labor Movement	39	(26)
``Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor . . .''	65	(34)
Expansion into the West	99	(28)
Panic and Populism: Revolt in the 1890s	127	(22)
Steady Leadership, Transitional Times	149	(22)
Progressivism Sweeps the Nation	171	(28)
Life in a Changing America	199	(34)
Adventure and Invention: An Era of Daring	233	(24)
Progressivism Reaches the White House	257
Where to Learn More	xxxvii
Index	xliii