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CONTENTS Instructor Resources (Materials Available with Log In) ...............................................................1 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 .......................................................................................2 • Introduction........................................................................................................................................................ 2 • Restoring the Union ........................................................................................................................................... 3 • Congress and the Remaking of the South, 1865–1866..................................................................................... 8 • Radical Reconstruction, 1867–1872................................................................................................................ 12 • The Collapse of Reconstruction....................................................................................................................... 20 • Video: Reconstruction and 1876...................................................................................................................... 28 • Primary Source Reading: Atlanta Compromise Speech.................................................................................. 28 • Primary Source Reading: Souls of Black Folk ................................................................................................. 30 • Primary Source Reading: Black Codes ........................................................................................................... 35 • Assignment: Reactions to Jim Crow ................................................................................................................ 36 Go West Young Man! Westward Expansion, 1840-1900 ..........................................................37 • Introduction...................................................................................................................................................... 37 • The Loss of American Indian Life and Culture................................................................................................. 38 • The Impact of Expansion on Chinese Immigrants and Hispanic Citizens ....................................................... 43 • The Westward Spirit ........................................................................................................................................ 47 • Video: Westward Expansion............................................................................................................................ 53 • Homesteading: Dreams and Realities ............................................................................................................. 53 • Making a Living in Gold and Cattle .................................................................................................................. 58 Industrialization and the Rise of Big Business, 1870-1900 .......................................................65 • Introduction...................................................................................................................................................... 65 • Inventors of the Age......................................................................................................................................... 66 • From Invention to Industrial Growth................................................................................................................. 71 • Video: The Industrial Economy........................................................................................................................ 79 • Building Industrial America on the Backs of Labor .......................................................................................... 80 • A New American Consumer Culture................................................................................................................ 88 • Primary Source Reading: The Gospel of Wealth............................................................................................. 91 • Assignment: The Gospel of Wealth ................................................................................................................. 93 The Growing Pains of Urbanization, 1870-1900 .......................................................................94 • Introduction...................................................................................................................................................... 94 • Urbanization and Its Challenges...................................................................................................................... 95 • The African American “Great Migration” and New European Immigration .................................................... 102 • Relief from the Chaos of Urban Life .............................................................................................................. 107 • Video: Growth, Cities, and Immigration ......................................................................................................... 115 • Change Reflected in Thought and Writing..................................................................................................... 116 • Primary Source Reading: How the Other Half Lives...................................................................................... 122 • Assignment: How the Other Half Lives .......................................................................................................... 125 Politics in the Gilded Age, 1870-1900 .....................................................................................126 • Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 126 • Political Corruption in Postbellum America.................................................................................................... 127 • The Key Political Issues: Patronage, Tariffs, and Gold ................................................................................. 134 • Farmers Revolt in the Populist Era ................................................................................................................ 141 • Social and Labor Unrest in the 1890s............................................................................................................ 146 • Video: Gilded Age Politics ............................................................................................................................. 152 • Assignment: Social Darwinism ...................................................................................................................... 153 Leading the Way: The Progressive Movement, 1890-1920 ....................................................154 • Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 154 • The Origins of the Progressive Spirit in America ........................................................................................... 155 • Video: The Progressive Era........................................................................................................................... 158 • Progressivism at the Grassroots Level .......................................................................................................... 158 • New Voices for Women and African Americans ............................................................................................ 166 • Video: Women's Suffrage .............................................................................................................................. 171 • Progressivism in the White House................................................................................................................. 172 • Video: Progressive Presidents....................................................................................................................... 182 • Primary Source Reading: The Jungle............................................................................................................ 182 • Assignment: The Jungle ................................................................................................................................ 182 Age of Empire: American Foreign Policy, 1890-1914 .............................................................184 • Introduction.................................................................................................................................................... 184 • Turner, Mahan, and the Roots of Empire ...................................................................................................... 185 • The Spanish-American War and Overseas Empire....................................................................................... 191 • Economic Imperialism in East Asia...............................................................................................................