Developments: Culture, Economy, Politics
A. Industrial growth: railroads, iron, coal, electricity, steel, oil, banks
B. Laissez-faire conservatism
1. Gospel of Wealth
2. Myth of "self-made man"
3. Social Darwinism; survival of the fittest
4. Social critics and dissenters
C. Effects of technological develpoment on worker/workplace
D. Union movement
1. Knights of Labor and American Federation of Labor
2. Haymarket, Homestead, and Pullman
18. Urban Society
A. Lure of the city
B. Immigration
C. City problems
1. Slums
2. Machine problems
D. Awakening conscience; reforms
1. Social legislation
2. Settlement houses: Jane Addams and Lillian Wald
3. Structural reforms in government
19. Intellectual and Cultural Movements
A. Education
1. Colleges and universities
2. Scientific advances
B. Professionalism and the social sciences
C. Realism in literature and art
D. Mass culture
1. Use of leisure
2. Publishing and journalism
20. National Politics, 1877-1896: The Gilded Age
A. A conservative presidency
B. Issues
1. Tariff controversy
2. Railroad regulation
3. Trusts
C. Agrarian discontent
D. Crisis of 1890s
1. Populism
2. Silver question
3. Election of 1896: McKinley versus Bryan
21. Foreign Policy, 1865-1914
A. Seward and purchase of Alaska
B. The new imperialism
1. Blaine and Latin America
2. International Carwinism: missionaries, politicians, and naval expansionists
3. Spanish-American War
a. Cuban independence
b. Debate on the Phillipines
C. The Far East: John Hay and the Open Door
D. Theodore Roosevelt
1. The Panama Canal
2. Roosevelt Corollary
3. Far East
E. Taft and Dollar Diplomacy
F. Wilson and Moral Diplomacy
22. Progressive Era
A. Origins of Progressivism
1. Progressive attitudes and motives
2. Muckrakers
3. Social Gospel
B. Municipal, state, and national reforms; suffrage and regulation
C. Socialism: alternatives
D. Black America
1. Washington, Du Bois, and Garvey
2. Civil rights organizations
E. Women's role: family, work, education, unionization, and suffrage
F. Roosevelt's Square Deal
G. Taft
1. Pinchot-Ballinger controversy
2. Payne-Aldrich Tariff
H. Wilson's New Freedom; Antitrust Act of 1914
Section One:
1492-1816
Section Two:
1816-1877
Section Four:
1914-1945
Section Five:
1945-1974
Section Six:
1974-present
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