The Age of Reform and Industrialization

by Espejo, Roman

• ISBN13: 9780737711424
• ISBN10: 0737711426
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-12-01
• Publisher: Greenhaven Pr

Summary

Looks at important writings and moments in American history during the the Spanish American War, annexation of the Philippines and other territories, and the Industrial Revolution.

Table of Contents

Foreword	13	(2)
Introduction	15	(11)
1896-1904: America Ascends to Power
The Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court Case	26	(5)
John Marshall Harlan
The Triumph of America in the Spanish American War	31	(6)
Henry Watterson
The United States Annexes the Philippines	37	(5)
William Jennings Bryan
Urban Growth in the United States	42	(4)
Adna Ferrin Weber
Laissez-Faire and the Gospel of Wealth	46	(5)
Foster Rhea Dulles
Life in Small-Town and Rural America	51	(6)
John W. Dodds
Immigration to the Turn of the Century	57	(5)
Edward Lowry
The Assassination of President William McKinley	62	(6)
Aaron T. Haverin
The Wright Brothers' First Flight	68	(4)
Hendrik de Leeuw
Opening Night at Coney Island the New York Times	72	(6)
1905-1912: Resistance and Reform
The Rise of Muckraking Journalism	78	(6)
Stephen Goode
The Saloon Problem	84	(5)
John Marshall Barker
The San Francisco Earthquake of 1906	89	(6)
DeWitt C. Baldwin
Theodore Roosevelt and the Hepburn Act	95	(5)
Nathan Miller
The Great American Vaudeville Industry the New York Times	100	(7)
The Founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People	107	(4)
Charles Flint Kellogg
Life in a Sweatshop	111	(5)
Rose Cohen Sweatshops
The Effort to Save Yosemite	116	(7)
John Muir
1913---1917: America Watches the World Go to War
The Woman Suffrage Parade of 1913	123	(6)
Sheridan Harvey
Henry Ford Introduces Mass Production	129	(5)
Allan Nevins
Frank Ernest Hill
The Balkan Crisis: Assassination at Sarajevo	134	(9)
Edward Robb Ellis
The Panama Canal Opens a Path Between the Seas	143	(8)
David McCullough
Tension Grows in ``Neutral'' America	151	(4)
Mark Sullivan
Americans React to the Sinking of the Lusitania	155	(6)
Thomas A. Bailey
Paul B. Ryan
The Birth of a Nation: A Landmark in Film History	161	(5)
Ward Greene
Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement	166	(11)
Ellen Chesler
1918---1919: The War Changes America
America Enters World War I	177	(9)
Woodrow Wilson
America Asserts Its Military Power	186	(6)
Arthur S. Link
William A. Link
William B. Catton
Eugene Debs's Antiwar Speech	192	(11)
Eugene Debs
The Influenza Epidemic Hits America	203	(7)
A.A. Hoehling
The treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations	210	(8)
Thomas C. Reeves
The Making of a Red	218	(5)
Robert Benchley
An American Town Greets Prohibition By the Historical Society of Quincy and Adams County, Illinois	223	(5)
The 1919 World Series: Baseball's Most Famous Scandal By the Chicago Historical Society	228	(7)
Chronology	235	(8)
For Further Research	243	(4)
Index	247