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Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction Chapter 1: Growth of the Country

Immigration

Document: Emma Lazarus: “The New Colossus” (1886)

Westward Migration

Document: The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) Document: William H. Seward: The Promise of Alaska (1869)

Urban Growth

Chapter 2: The West

The Mineral Empire

Document: Henry Eno: Silver in Nevada (1869)

The Open Range The Expansion of the Railroads Indian Policy

Document: Chief Joseph: The Disillusioned Indian (1879)

Chapter 3: The Growth of Industry

Document: Andrew Carnegie: The Picture Lover and Picture Buyer (1886) The Dispersion of Industry Industrial Combinations Foreign Commerce

Document: Henry Demarest Lloyd: Monopoly and Social Control (1884)

Chapter 4: Labour

Formation of Unions

Document: The Knights of Labor (1878)

The Haymarket Riot

Document: The Pullman Strike and Boycott (1894) Document: Samuel Gompers: The Laborer’s Right to Life (1894)

Chapter 5: National Politics

Document: Woodrow Wilson: The Declining Prestige of the Presidential Office (1885) The Gilded Age

Chapter 6: The Rutherford B. Hayes Administration

Document: Rutherford B. Hayes: Wealth in the Hands of the Few (1886–87)

Chapter 7: The Administrations of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur

Document: “Charles Guiteau” (1882)

Chapter 8: Grover Cleveland’s First Term

The Surplus and the Tariff The Public Domain The Interstate Commerce Act The Election of 1888

Document: Grover Cleveland: Surplus Revenues and the Tariff (1887)

Chapter 9: The Benjamin Harrison Administration

The Sherman Anti-Trust Act The Silver Issue

Document: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)

The McKinley Tariff The Agrarian Revolt The Populists

Document: Hamilton Wicks: The Oklahoma Land Rush (1889)

The Election of 1892

Document: William A. Peffer: The Rise of Farmer Organizations (1891) World’s Columbian Exposition

Chapter 10: From Cleveland to Economic Recovery

Cleveland's Second Term

Document: James Laurence Laughlin: Against Free Coinage of Silver (1895) Document: Jacob S. Coxey: Business Depression and Public Works (1894)

The Election of 1896

Mark Hanna

Economic Recovery

Document: William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold (1896)

Conclusion Appendices (Documents)

Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) William H. Seward: The Promise of Alaska (1869) Henry Eno: Silver in Nevada (1869) Chief Joseph: The Disillusioned Indian (1879) Andrew Carnegie: The Picture Lover and the Picture Buyer (1886) Henry Demarest Lloyd: Monopoly and Social Control (1884) The Knights of Labor (1878) The Pullman Strike and Boycott

I. Statement of the Strikers II. Statement of the Company

Samuel Gompers: The Laborer’s Right to Life (1894) Woodrow Wilson: The Declining Prestige of the Presidential Office (1885) Rutherford B. Hayes: Wealth in the Hands of the Few (1886–87) Grover Cleveland: Surplus Revenues and the Tariff (1887) The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) Hamilton S. Wicks: The Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) William A. Peffer: The Rise of Farmer Organizations (1891)

The Grange The Farmers’ Alliance National Farmers’ Alliance Farmers’ Mutual Benefit Association The Kansas Movement The Cincinnati Conference

James Laurence Laughlin: Against Free Coinage of Silver (1895) Jacob S. Coxey: Business Depression and Public Works (1894)

The Bill…to Build Good Roads… The Noninterest Bearing Bond Bill…

William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold (1896)

Glossary Bibliography Index

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