Development of South and West. Industrialism and capitalism. Labor movement. Urban growth. Urban society and culture.
Redeemers = Bourbons
Segregation, Jim Crow laws
Dis(en)franchisement, literacy test, grandfather laws
Lynchings
Brooker T. Washington, Atlanta Compromise (1895), Willian E. B. DuBois, "The Talented Tenth" (1903), National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP, 1909)
Great American Desert
Transcontinental line (1869)
Mining
Open range, long drive, range wars
Indian Territory = Oklahoma, concentration, extermination of buffalo, Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Hardships suffered by western farmers
Taylorism
Railroads, steel, Andrew Carnegie, John Pierpont Morgan, oil, John D. Rockefeller
Corporations, horizontal and vertical integration, monopoly, cartel, trust, holding company
Social Darwinism, Gospel of wealth, Socialist Labor party, American Socialist party (1901)
Labor movement: Knights of Labor (1869), Haymarket Riot (1886), American Federation of Labor (AFL, 1886), Homestead Massacre (1892), Pullman Strike (1894)
Immigration: ghetto, assimilation, nativism
Tenements
Machine and boss
Mass consumption
Leisure activities: spectator sports, theatre, motion pictures, dime novels, newspapers and magazines
Darwinism, liberal Protestantism, Protestant fundamentalism
Pragmatism
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