Grover Cleveland - American President
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
10: Industrializing Society
President Benjamin Harrison Home
Benjamin Harrison - American President
Summary information and links to more resources from the Miller Center of Public Affairs from the University of Virginia
A Biography of America: Capital and Labor
Companion site to documentary, be sure to check out maps, transcripts and "Webography" links to primary documents
1896: William Jennings Bryan
Biography with special attention to election of 1896. From Vassar University
William Jennings Bryan Recognition Project
Association Action to Memorialize Bryan's public service and contributions to international peacekeeping
William Jennings Bryan
Biographical article from University of Missouri, Kansas City
The Wealthiest Americans Ever - Chart
LEGAL TENDER CASES, 79 U. S. 457 (1870) -- US Supreme Court Cases from Justia & Oyez
What social classes owe to each other - William Graham Sumner
The Republican campaign text book .1880
Campaign book detailing the Republican position on every issue in 1880
Republican Party Platform of 1880
Democratic Party Platform of 1880
Opposition to centralization and to that dangerous spirit of encroachment which tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever be the form of government, a real despotism
The great fraud of 1876-77, by which, upon a false count of the electoral votes of two States, the candidate defeated at the polls was declared to be President, and for the first time in American history, the will of the people was set aside under a threat of military violence, struck a deadly blow at our system of representative government.
nation
Compare the reference to "nation" with the Republican Platform of 1880. Democrats usee the term only three times, the Republican platform is replete with references to "nation"
Oleomargarine legislation : speech of Hon. Elbert S. Brigham of Vermont in the House of Representatives, January 31, 1930.
One of the examples of the Oleomargarine speeches, note the quote of Herbert Hoover on the cover. Margarine sales was restricted in many states, or states required that it be colored pink to make reduce sales. Not many people know about this issue that represents the degree to which the the government played a role in the economy. In this case, at the behest of dairy farmers
Native American Prints from the Pennington Photo Studio Photos
This collection photographs taken just after 1900 are shown in high definition and allow students to see plains Indians as there were in the late 19th century.
Hearst Castle
Home page for robber baron's house
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912, Toolbox Library
A collection of primary resources-historical documents, literary texts,and works of art-thematically organized with notes and discussion questions from National Humanities Center from National Humanities Center
Immigration - Themed Resources
Trace the immigrant experience and study contributions by immigrant Americans through historic film clips; images of Ellis Island, Angel Island and immigrant groups; presentations, letters and manuscripts. From Library of Congress
Wall Street Owns The Country
Short excerpt from a speech by the populist Mary Ellen Lease. Includes the line "t is no longer a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, but a government of Wall Street, by Wall Street, and for Wall Street"
Transportation History Collection: Railroads
The Transportation History Collection in the Special Collections Library of the University of Michigan contains a unique body of printed and visual materials on transportation technology and travel. Although there are printed items from as early as 1588, the majority of the material is from the 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope, subjects in the collection include ballooning and dirigibles, early roads, automobiles, canals, bridges, carriages and coaches, and, most notably, railroads
The Haymarket Trial of 1886
Comprehensive collection of articles, artifacts and documents from the "Famous Trials" site at the University of Missouri - Kansas City
Nebraska: Stories - Google Books
Stories from the great blizzard of 1888 - insight into life on the Great Plains at the end of the 19th century. Use to compare the creature comforts of life just 100 years later. It's not like you're working, anyway. Reading Hansen's astringent and clinical accounts of horrid deaths, merciless cold, and sudden and inexplicable chaos should make you feel a little bit less put-upon by the slush puddles that ruined your shoes.
Evaluating Eyewitness Reports | EDSITEment
This lesson offers students experience in drawing historical meaning from eyewitness accounts that present a range of different perspectives. Students begin with a case study including alternative reports of a single event: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Students compare two newspaper reports on the fire and two memoirs of the fire written many decades later, with an eye on how these accounts complement and compete with one another, and how these sources can be used to draw historical meaning from them. Students then apply the lessons learned in their investigation of the eyewitness accounts of the Chicago fire by considering a unique eyewitness account: the diary kept by a Confederate girl when her Tennessee town was occupied by Union troops during the Civil War.
The Rise of Big Business: Digital History
This chapter traces the rise of the corporation as the dominant form of business organization in the United States. It describes the economic, legal, and technological factors that encouraged rapid industrialization, the history of business consolidation, and the growth of new management techniques.
The Rise of the City: Digital History
This chapter traces the changing nature of the American city in the late 19th century, the expansion of cities horizontally and vertically, the problems caused by urban growth, the depiction of cities in art and literature, and the emergence of new forms of urban entertainment.
The Gilded Age: Digital History
The 1880s and 1890s were years of unprecedented technological innovation, mass immigration, and intense political partisanship, including disputes over currency, tariffs, political corruption and patronage, and railroads and business trusts.
Industrialization and the Working Class: Digital History
This chapter examines the impact of and responses to industrialization among American workers, including the attempt to form labor unions despite strong opposition from many industrialists and the courts.
The Huddled Masses: Digital History
In this chapter you learn about the new immigrants from eastern and southern Europe and the anti-immigrant reaction.
Robber Barons And Rebels
from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States"
California, <hypothesis-highlight class="annotator-hl">almost one-tenth of the population.</hypothesis-highlight>
Dead, my revered friends, dead. Stoned to death in the streets of San Francisco, in the year of grace
1869 by a mob of halfgrown boys and Christian school children.
Chinese Immigration and Exclusion Lesson Plan
What factors contributed to the Chinese Exclusion Act? (from Stanford History Education Group)