Elizabeth V. Burt

The Progressive Era

Primary Documents on Events from 1890 to 1914

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Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes America underwent during the Industrial Age and up to the start of World War I. With the death of southern reconstruction, Americans looked first westward and then abroad to fulfill their manifest destiny. Along the way, robber barons built railroads and oil trusts, populism burned across the prairies, currency went off the gold standard, immigrants poured into urban areas, and the United States won imperial outposts in Cuba and the Philippines. Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved. Each issue is presented with an introductory essay and multiple primary documents from the newspapers of the day, which illustrate both sides of the debate. This is a perfect resource for students interested in the controversial and tumultuous changes America underwent during the Industrial Age and up to the start of World War I.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greenwood
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 765g
• ISBN-13: 9780313320972
• ISBN-10: 0313320977
• Artikelnr.: 21961631

Autorenporträt

ELIZABETH V. BURT is Associate Professor at the School of Communication, University of Hartford. She is the author of Women's Press Organizations, 1881-1999 (Greenwood Press, 2000), and has published many articles and book chapters on issues of the Progressive Era, social movements, and the woman suffrage movement.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Forward List of Illustrations Introduction: The Progressive Era and Newspapers The Census of 1890 Measures American Life and Defines Some of Its Problems The Death of Sitting Bull and the Battle of Wounded Knee
December 1890 Nativist Fears Limit Chinese Immigration
May 1892 The Homestead Strike Pits Labor Against Management
1892 Lynch Law Terrorizes Blacks in the South Coxey's Army Marches on Washington
1894 The Sinking of the Maine
Feb 15
1898 The Treaty of Paris Launches America as an Imperialist Power
Dec. 10
1898 The Turn of the 20th Century Brings Hopes and Fears President William McKinley Is Assassinated
Sept. 6
1901 America Backs the Panamanian Revolution
November 1903 The Socialist Party Challenges the Status Quo
1904 The Triangle Shirt Waist Factory Fire
March 25
1911 The Titanic Disaster
April 14
1912 Women Demand the Right to Vote
1911-1912 Congress Adopts the Federal Income Tax
February 1913 The Prohibition Movement Gains in the States and Congress
1900-1913 Women March for Suffrage in Washington
March 1913 The 17th Amendment Reforms the Senate
May 1913 Ludlow Mine Massacre
April 1914 Appendix A: Chronology
1890-1914 Appendix B: Newspapers Cited Bibliography