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Major Problems in American History /

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Major Problems in American History /

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edited by Elizabeth Cobbs, Texas A&M University, Edward J. Blum, San Diego State University.

Fourth edition.

Australia :

Cengage Learning,

[2017]

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Major problems in American history series

Includes bibliographical references.

v.1. To 1877: Documents and essays. Preface -- About the authors -- Introduction: How to read primary and secondary sources -- Chapter 1: Old worlds make new ones. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. The Iroquois describe the beginning of the world, n.d., 2. Native Americans pay tithes to the Aztecs, 1541-42, 3. European map-makers remake the world, 1595, 4. The Portuguese lament military losses in western Africa, 1448, 5. Christopher Columbus details his first encounters with native people, 1493, 6. Fray Bernardino de Sahagun relates an Aztec chronicler's account of the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, 1519, 7. An Englishman discusses trading with Indians on the Atlantic Coast, 1584, 8. English artist John White depicts Indian land use, 1619 ; Essays: The Indians' Old World / Neal Salisbury, The Europeans' New World / Joyce Appleby -- Chapter 2: Colonial settlements and conflicts, 1600-1690. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Edward Waterhouse, a British official, recounts an Indian attack on early Virginia settlement, 1622, 2. Indentured servant Richard Frethorne laments his condition in Virginia, 1623, 3. Puritan leader John Winthrop provides a model of christian charity, 1630, 4. Sugar planters transform Barbados, 1647-1650, 5. Anne Bradstreet discusses her children in the Colonies, 1656, 6. A French missionary describes the Iroquois, 1659-1660, 7. George Alsop, a resident of Maryland, argues that servants in Maryland profit from life in the Colonies, 1666, 8. Tituba, a servant-slave in Salem, Massachusetts, answers questions about the devil, 1692 ; Essays: The Indians' New World / James H. Merrell, Cannibalism and abundance in Colonial Jamestown / Rachel B. Herrmann -- Chapter 3 British Colonial development, 1690-1770. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. An Englishman recounts his travels into Western Africa, 1623, 2. Virginia's Statutes illustrate the declining status of African American slaves, 1660-1705, 3. Southern planter William Byrd describes his views toward learning and his slaves, 1709-1710, 4. Enslaved workers cultivate tobacco, 1738, 5. Dr. Alexander Hamilton depicts the material acquisitions of northern colonists, 1744, 6. Gottlieb Mittelberger, a German immigrant, portrays the difficulties of immigration, 1750, 7. Samson Occom (Mohegan) gives a short narrative of his life, 1768, 8. Adam Smith analyzes the British Colonies in terms of the wealth of nations, 1776 ; Essays: Worlds of wonder in the Northern Colonies / David D. Hall, Worlds of goods in the Northern Colonies / T. H. Breen -- Chapter 4: The American Revolution. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Congress condemns the Stamp Act, 1765, 2. Pamphleteer Thomas Paine advocates the "Common sense" of independence, 1776, 3. Abigail and John Adams debate women's rights, 1776, 4. Mohawk leader Joseph Brant commits the loyalty of his people to Britain, 1776, 5. A new song inspires revolutionaries, 1776, 6. African Americans petition for freedom, 1777, 7. General Washington argues for greater military funding by portraying the plight of soldiers at Valley Forge, 1778, 8. Venezuela declares independence, 1810 ; Essays: Maritime dimensions of the American Revolution / Christopher Paul Magra, The Declaration of Independence in world context / David Armitage -- Chapter 5: From Confederation to Constitution. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. The Articles of Confederation stress the rights of states, 1781, 2. Cato, an African American, pleads for the abolition of slavery in Pennsylvania, 1781, 3.The Iroquois and the United States make the Treaty of Fort Stanwix, 1784, 4. Slaveholders in Virginia argue against the abolition of slavery, 1784-1785, 5. Thomas Jefferson proposes the protection of religious freedom in Virginia, 1786, 6. Daniel Shays and followers declare their intent to protect themselves against "Tyranny," 1787, 7. The Federalist Papers illustrate the advantages of ratification of the Constitution, 1787-1788, 8. France devises a new Republican calendar, 1793 ; Essays: The pressure of the people on the framers of the Constitution / Alfred F. Young, Making an American umpire in the presence of European empires / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman --

Chapter 11: Commercial development and immigration. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Alexis de Tocqueville marvels at the mobile northern society, 1831, 2. Essayist Orestes Brownson condemns the plight of "wage slaves," 1840, 3. Gustof Unonius, a Swedish immigrant, reflects on life in the United States, 1841-1842, 4. New Yorker George Templeton Strong berates the immigrants in his midst, 1838-1857, 5. John L. O'Sullivan, a Democratic newspaperman, defines "Manifest Destiny," 1845, 6. Commodore Matthew C. Perry receives instructions for his expedition to Japan, 1852, 7. A magazine author reflects upon the impact of gold and silver from California and elsewhere in the world, 1852, 9. Irish Americans sing about their struggles and successes, c. 1860s ; Essays: Concentrating capital and power in New York City / Sven Beckert, The hard quest for quick riches in California / Edward Dolnick -- Chapter 12: Agriculture and slavery in the South. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A North Carolina law prohibits teaching slaves to read or write, 1831, 2. Ferdinand L. Steel records daily life as a yeoman, 1838-1841, 3. Cotton planter Bennett Barrow describes life in Louisiana, 1838, 1839, 1841, 4. Samuel Cartwright, a Southern doctor, theorizes about the peculiar diseases of slaves, 1851, 5. A Virginia slave woman articulates her distress to her enslaved husband, 1852, 6. Southern author Daniel Hundley Robinson depicts the white yeoman farmer, 1860, 7. Harriet Jacobs deplores her risks in being a female slave, 1861, 8. Southerner Mary Chestnut describes her hatred of slavery from a white woman's view, 1861 ; Essays: The neighborhoods and intimate lives of slaves / Anthony E. Kaye, How slaves transformed jails / Susan Eva O'Donovan -- Chapter 13: Toward Civil War. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. J. Stoddard Johnston answers "What is a Yankee," 1850, 2. Reviewers offer differing opinions about Uncle Tom's Cabin, 1852, 3. Axalla John Hoole, a Southerner, depicts "Bleeding Kansas," 1856, 4. Senator Charles Sumner addresses the "Crime against Kansas," 1856, 5. Chief Justice Roger Taney determines the legal status of slaves, 1857, 6. Republican William Seward warns of an irrepressible conflict, 1858, 7. James Henry Hammond praises King Cotton, 1858, 8. Feuille du Commerce eulogizes John Brown, January 21, 1860, 9. Northerner Frederick Law Olmsted depicts the economic costs of slavery, 1861 ; Essays: Why northerners voted for Abraham Lincoln / Bruce Levine, How cotton wove together a secession coalition / Brian Schoen -- Chapter 14: The Civil War. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A white Virginian argues against secession, 1861, 2. The Detroit Soldiers' Aid Society president calls on women to assist the war effort, 1861, 3. Cherokee declare their support for the Confederacy, 1861, 4. Margaret Junkin Preston describes southern suffering in her diary, 1862, 5. President Abraham Lincoln orders the execution of 39 Dakotas involved in the 1862 Minnesota War, 6. James Henry Gooding, an African American soldier, pleads for equal treatment, 1863, 7. Tally Simpson, a Confederate soldier, recounts the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863, 8. Two artistic representation of emancipation, 1863, 1864, 9. Karl Marx applauds Abraham Lincoln, 1864, 10. Liberian Secretary of State Hilary Johnson responds to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, 1866 ; Essays: The good death in the Civil War / Drew Gilpin Faust, The hard freedom of the Civil War / David Williams -- Chapter 15: Reconstruction. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. William Howard Day, an African American minister, salutes the nation and a monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1865, 2. A southern songwriter opposes Reconstruction, c. 1860s, 3. Louisiana Black Codes reinstate provisions of the slave era, 1865, 4. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens demands a radical Reconstruction, 1867, 5. Thomas Nast depicts contrasting views of Reconstruction, 1866, 1869, 6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton questions abolitionist support for female enfranchisement, 1868, 7. Charlotte Forten reflects on teaching among southern African Americans, 1863, 8. Lucy McMillan, a former slave in South Carolina, testifies about white violence, 1871, 9. Francis Miles Finch mourns and celebrates Civil War soldiers from the South and North, 1867 ; Essays: Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon, Reforging the white republic : race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898 /Edward J. Blum --

Chapter 11: The postwar "Boom" : affluence and anxiety. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. New Yorker cartoon contrasts the perfect life with the Cold War, 1947, 2. Senator Kenneth Wherry pledges to expel homosexual "Security risks," 1950, 3. Senate committee investigates the harms of comic books, 1954, 4. Good Housekeeping : every executive needs a perfect wife, 1956, 5. Harlem disc jockey counters racist opposition to rock 'n' roll, 1956, 6. Egyptian youth rock out, 1957, 7. Life magazine identifies the new teenage market, 1959, 8. Newspaper survey : Are you a conformist or a rebel?, 1959, 9. Feminist Betty Friedan describes the problem that has no name, 1963 ; Essays: Men and women : life in the nuclear cocoon / Elaine Tyler May, Children : "All shook up" / Glen Altschuler -- Chapter 12: "We can do better" : the civil rights revolution. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. The United Nations approves a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948, 2. Federal government calls segregation an international embarrassment, 1952, 3. French Caribbean psychiatrist Frantz Fanon writes of "Black skin, white masks," 1952, 4. The Supreme Court rules that segregation causes psychological harm in Brown v. Board, 1954, 5. Southern Congressmen protest Supreme Court decision, 1956, 6. Nation horrified by Birmingham Church bombing, 1963, 7. ACLU lawyer Philip Hirschkop argues for freedom of marriage, Loving vs. Virginia, 1967, 8. Indians offer $24 in trade beads for Alcatraz Island, 1969, 9. Federal Court defends rights of the disabled, 1971, 10. Chicanas assert a "Revolution within a revolution," 1972 ; Essays: The liberal hour : top down determination / G. Gavin Mackenzie and Robert Weisbrot, Doing the job of change from the bottom up / Nancy MacLean -- Chapter 13: The sixties and Vietnam. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A South Vietnamese farmer explains why he joined the liberation movement, 1961 (1986), 2. Students for a Democratic Society advance a reform agenda, 1962, 3. California Governor Ronald Reagan warns of a welfare state, 1964, 4. Undersecretary of State George Ball urges withdrawal from Vietnam, 1965, 5. Draftee Sebastian A. Ilacqua recalls coming back to "The World," 1967 (1995), 6. Poster : Folk singer Joan Baez and her sisters say yes to men who say no, 1968, 7. Rock band "Country Joe and The Fish" lampoons middle class values and the Vietnam War, 1968, 8. Yippies face down the House UnAmerican Activities Committee, 1968, 9. Vice President Spiro Agnew warns of the threat to America, 1969, 10. Carl Wittman issues a gay manifesto, 1969-1970 ; Essays: Sixties liberalism and the revolution in manners / Kenneth Cmiel, Johnson's war : flawed decisions, terrible consequences / Frederik Logevall -- Chapter 14: The emergence of the New Right. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Country singer Merle Haggard is proud to be an "Okie from Muskogee," 1969, 2. Senate airs dirtiest secrets of Cold War, 1975, 3. Republican activist Phyllis Schlafly scorns feminism, 1977, 4. Californians lead tax revolt, 1978, 5. Reverend Jerry Falwell summons America back to the Bible, 1980, 6. President Ronald Reagan defines the Cold War in religious terms, 1983, 7. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher applauds American policy, 1985, 8. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop argues for extending American values to AIDS victims, 1987, 9. Sierra Club attacks Reagan and calls for "Reconstruction," 1988 ; Essays: Liberalism : a passing phenomenon / H. W. Brands, Evangelical conservatism : a new phenomenon / Paul Boyer -- Chapter 15: End of the Cold War and rise of terrorism. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Mikhail Gorbachev declares peace, and unilateral arms reductions, at the UN, 1988, 2. President George H. W. Bush pronounces the Cold War over, 1990, 3. Osama Bin Laden declares jihad Against America, 1998, 4. Two workers flee the inferno in the twin towers, 2001, 5. President George W. Bush articulates a new defense strategy, 2002, 6. ACLU warns against the "Patriot Act," 2002, 7. Senator Robert Byrd condemns post-9/11 foreign policy, 2003, 8. Democratic and Republican senators urge President Obama to bring troops home, 2011 ; Essays: Russian-American cooperation ended the Cold War / Norman Graebner, Richard Dean Burns, and Joseph Siracusa, The illusion of omnipotence in a complex world / Geir Lundestad -- Chapter 16: Globalization and the economic challenge. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A unionist blasts the export of jobs, 1987, 2. President Bill Clinton calls for reinvestment in America, 1993, 3. Activists demand "No globalization without representation," 1999, 4. Latino immigrants create multinational soccer league in St. Louis, 2008, 5. The great recession has men grinding their teeth, 2010, 6. Pope Francis denounces trickle-down economics, 2013, 7. President Barack Obama calls attention to growing inequality, 2013, 8. Economist Robert Samuelson blogs that income gap is exaggerated, 2014, 9. Tiger mother challenges Americans to become more Chinese, 2011 ; Essays: Michael Jordan and the new capitalism : America on top of its game / Walter Lafeber, Globalization : America needs to rethink its game / Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum.

Chapter 6: Nation among nations. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A Spanish soldier describes the Comanche destruction of the San Saba Mission in Texas, 1758, 2. Republican Thomas Jefferson celebrates the virtue of the yeoman farmer, 1785, 3. Judith Sargent Murray argues for the "Equality of the sexes," 1790, 4. Federalist Alexander Hamilton envisions a developed American economy, 1791, 5. A cartoonist attacks the degenerate French over the XYZ Affair, 1798, 6. Thomas Jefferson advances the power of the states, 1798, 7. Chief Justice John Marshall argues for the primacy of the Federal Government, 1803, 8. Thomas Jefferson's supporters sing of his victory, ca. 1801 ; Essays: The Comanche empire / Pekka Hämäläinen, The making of American nationalism / David Waldstreicher -- Chapter 7: Foreign policy, western movement, and Indian removal. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. President George Washington warns against "entangling alliances," 1796, 2. William Clark of the Lewis and Clark Expedition enters into diplomacy with native people, 1806, 3. Iroquois Chief Red Jacket decries the day when whites arrived, 1805, 4. William Cullen Bryant satirizes the Embargo Act, 1808, 5. Shawnee Chief Tecumseh recounts the misdeeds of whites and calls for Indian unity, 1810, 6. A newspaper reports on the burning of Washington, D.C., 1814, 7. President James Monroe declares that European powers may not interfere in the Americas, 1823, 8. Francis Chardon bemoans the destruction of the Arikaras and Mandans by smallpox, 1837 ; Essays: The War of 1812 as a borderland war / Alan Taylor, International missions and tenuous Anglo-American relations / Emily Conroy-Krutz -- Chapter 8: Market and transportation revolutions. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Slave Charles Ball mourns the growth of cotton culture and "sale down the river," c. 1800, 2. President John Quincy Adams urges internal improvements, 1825, 3. A family in Illinois struggles with marketing their crops, 1831, 4. Harriet Hanson Robinson, a "Lowell girl," describes her labor in a textile mill, 1831, 5. Mary Graham describes life on a commercializing farm, 1835-1844, 6. Author Charles Dickens describes travel on an early railroad train, 1842, 7. A guidebook instructs women on the role of mother, 1845, 8. A northern advertisement sells "Southerner Rights Segars," 1859 ; Essays: The market revolution and the changes in women's work / Nancy F. Cott, The changes wrought by cotton, transportation, and communication / Daniel Walker Howe -- Chapter 9: Nationalism and sectionalism. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. A new song endeavors to put Andrew Jackson in the White House, c. 1820s, 2. Vice President John C. Calhoun argues that tariffs disadvantage the South, 1828, 3. A Mexican general describes the borderland, 1828, 1829, 4. Senator Daniel Webster lays out his nationalist vision, 1830, 5. President Andrew Jackson condemns the rights of "nullification" and secession, 1832, 6. Lieutenant-Colonel Jose Enrique de la Pena defends Mexico's actions against the Texans, 1836, 7. Michel Chevelier, a French visitor, marvels at the pageantry of politics, 1839, 8. Frederick Douglass addresses Texas and slavery while speaking in Ireland, 1846 ; Essays: The rise of Andrew Jackson, the annexation of Texas, and the perils and possibilities of nationalism and sectionalism / Sean Wilentz, Northerners begin to see "the South" as the problem / Susan-Mary Grant -- Chapter 10: Reform and religion. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Peter Cartwright, a Methodist itinerant preacher, marvels at the power of religious revivals, 1801, 2. A journalist describes a city prophet and his attacks on women, 1835, 3. Angelina Grimke appeals to christian women to oppose slavery, 1836, 4. James McCune Smith applauds the British and French for ending of slavery, 1838, 5. Reformer Dorothea Dix depicts the horrible conditions endured by the mentally ill, 1843, 6. Joseph Smith records a revelation on plural marriage, 1843, 7. The Seneca Falls Convention declares women's rights, 1848, 8. Former slave Sojourner Truth links women's rights to antislavery, 1851 ; Essays: Religion as inhibiting and liberating : the complicated case of Sojourner Truth / Nell Irvin Painter, Slavery, sex, and transatlantic abolitionism / Caleb McDaniel --

Chapter 6: World War I and the League of Nations. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Nobel Prize winner Bertha Von Suttner calls for collective security, 1905, 2. President Woodrow Wilson asks Congress to declare war, 1917, 3. Senator Robert M. La Follette passionately dissents, 1917, 4. A union organizer testifies to vigilante attack, 1917, 5. Wilson proposes a new world order in the "Fourteen Points," 1918, 6. An ambulance surgeon describes what it was like "Over there," 1918, 7. Egyptian leaders cheer on Woodrow Wilson, 1919, 8. A Negro leader explains why colored men fought for America, 1919, 9. Cartoonists depict Congressional opposition to the League of Nations, 1920 ; Essays: Woodrow Wilson : out-of-touch dreamer / Jan Schulte-Nordhult, Woodrow Wilson : man of his times / Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman -- Chapter 7: Crossing a cultural divide : the twenties. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. The Governor of California tells of the "Japanese problem," 1920, 2. Radio broadcast : "Modern church is no bridge to heaven," 1923, 3. Defense attorney Clarence Darrow interrogates prosecutor William Jennings Bryan in the Monkey Trial, 1925, 4. Arizonian Elias Sepulveda feels caught between worlds, 1926-1927, 5. Margaret Sanger seeks pity for teenage mothers and abstinent couples, 1928, 6. The automobile comes to Middletown, U.S.A., 1929, 7. Young women discuss petting, 1930 ; Essays: Sex and youth in the Jazz Age / Paula S. Fass, Fundamentalists battle modernism in the Roaring Twenties / Edward J. Larson -- Chapter 8: The Depression, the New Deal, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. President Herbert Hoover applauds limited government, 1931, 2. The nation asks, "Is it to be murder, Mr. Hoover?" 1932, 3. Communist Party leader prophesizes a Soviet America, 1932, 4. President Franklin D. Roosevelt says government must act, 1933, 5. W. P. Kiplinger tells "Why businessmen fear Washington," 1934, 6. California evangelist Louis Bauman warns of the antichrist, 1937, 7. Social Security advisers consider male and female pensioners, 1938, 8. John Steinbeck portrays the outcast poor in The grapes of wrath, 1939 ; Essays: FDR : advocate for the American people / David M. Kennedy, FDR : the anti-Christ / Matthew Avery Sutton -- Chapter 9: The ordeal of World War II. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. American missionaries speak out about the rape of Nanking, 1937, 2. Nurses rush to aid the wounded on the U.S. Naval Base in Hawaii, 1941, 3. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill reacts to Pearl Harbor, 1941, 4. Roosevelt identifies the "Four freedoms" at stake in the war, 1941, 5. Canadian-Japanese mother writes about her coming internment, 1942, 6. Office of War Information shows what GIs are fighting for : "Freedom from want," 1943, 7. An African American soldier notes the "Strange paradox" of the war, 1944, 8. A gunner fears his luck is running out, 1944, 9. Senator Lyndon Johnson defends a Mexican American killed in action, 1949 ; Essays: Fighting fear : and for civilization itself / Ira Katznelson, G.I. Joe : fighting for home / John Morton Blum -- Chapter 10: The global Cold War and the nuclear age. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. French leader Charles de Gaulle warns the United States, 1945, 2. Independence leader Ho Chi Minh pleads with Harry Truman for support, 1946, 3. Diplomat George F. Kennan's telegram advocates containment, 1946, 4. Secretary of Commerce Henry A. Wallace questions the "Get tough" policy, 1946, 5. Sir Winston Churchill warns of an Iron Curtain, 1946, 6. The Truman Doctrine calls for the United States to become the world's police, 1947, 7. Americans struggle to make sense of nuclear destruction : atomic cake vs. Godzilla, 1948 and 1954, 8. Senator Joseph McCarthy describes the internal communist menace, 1950, 9. New York Times expresses horror at Soviet tanks in Budapest, 1956 ; Essays: Truman's hard line prompted the Cold War / Walter Lafeber, Cold War Vietnam : a mistake of the western alliance / Mark Atwood Lawrence --

v. 2. Since 1865 : documents and essays. Preface -- About the authors -- Introduction: How to read primary and secondary sources -- Chapter 1: Reconstruction. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. William Howard Day, an African American minister, salutes the nation and a monument to Abraham Lincoln, 1865, 2. A Southern songwriter opposes Reconstruction, c. 1860s, 3. Louisiana Black Codes reinstate provisions of the Slave Era, 1865, 4. Congressman Thaddeus Stevens demands a radical Reconstruction, 1867, 5. Thomas Nast depicts contrasting views of Reconstruction 1866, 1869, 6. Elizabeth Cady Stanton questions Abolitionist support for female enfranchisement, 1868, 7. Charlotte Forten reflects on teaching among Southern African Americans, 1863, 8. Lucy McMillan, a former slave in South Carolina, testifies about white violence, 1871, 9. Francis Miles Finch mourns and celebrates Civil War Soldiers from the South and North, 1867 ; Essays: Slavery by another name : the re-enslavement of black Americans from the Civil War to World War II / Douglas A. Blackmon, Reforging the white republic : race, religion, and American nationalism, 1865-1898 / Edward J. Blum -- Chapter 2: Western settlement and the frontier. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Irish vocalist sings of slaying the Mormon "King," c. 1865, 2. Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton and Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo contemplate marriage between Mexicans and Yankees, 1867, 3. Katie Bighead (Cheyenne) remembers Custer and the Battle of Little Big Horn, 1876, 4. Commissioner of Indian Affairs recommends severalty and discusses Custer, 1876, 5. Chief Joseph (Nez Perce) surrenders, 1877, 6. Chinese immigrants complain to their Consulate, 1885, 7. Historian Frederick Jackson Turner articulates his "Frontier thesis," 1893, 8. An ex-slave recalls migrating across the prairie, 1936 ; Essays: The frontier as a place of ethnic and religious conflict / Patricia Nelson Limerick, The frontier as a place of global competition and gender redefinition / Maria Montoya -- Chapter 3: Industrialization, workers, and the new immigration. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Chinese immigrant Lee Chew denounces prejudice in America, 1882, 2. The Wasp denounces "The curse of California," The railroad monopoly, 1882, 3. Poet Emma Lazarus praises the new colossus, 1883, 4. Immigrant Thomas O'Donnell laments the worker's plight, 1883, 5. Unionist Samuel Gompers asks, "What does the working man want?" 1890, 6. Jurgis Rudkus discovers drink in The jungle, 1905, 7. Chinese excluded from Guatemala ask for help of the United States, 1907, 8. A Slovenian boy remembers tales of the golden country, 1909, 9. A Polish immigrant remembers her father got the best food, 1920 ; Essays: Creating the system : railroads and the modern corporation / Richard White, Challenging the system : Chinese evade the Exclusion Laws / Erika Lee -- Chapter 4: Imperialism and world power. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. Singer sells sewing machines to "Modern" Zulus, 1892, 2. Singer sells American notions of progress for women, 1897, 3. President William McKinley asks for war to liberate Cuba, 1898, 4. Governor Theodore Roosevelt praises the manly virtues of foreign intervention, 1899, 5. Filipino leader Emilio Aguinaldo rallies his people to arms, 1899, 6. The American Anti-Imperialist League denounces U.S. policy, 1899, 7. Secretary of State William Hay advocates an open door in China, 1899 & 1900, 8. A soldier criticizes American racism in the Philippines, 1902, 9. Congress steers the Philippines towards autonomy, 1916 ; Essays: Racial imperialism : America's takeover of the Philippines / Paul A. Kramer, The empire of commodities : Russian resistance to American economic expansion / Mona Domosh -- Chapter 5: The Progressive movement. Questions to think about ; Documents: 1. W. C. T. U. blasts drinking and smoking, and demands power to protect, 1883, 2. Utopian Edward Bellamy scorns the callousness of the rich, 1888, 3. Black educator Booker T. Washington advocates compromise and self-reliance, 1901, 4. NAACP founder W. E. B. DuBois denounces compromise on Negro education and civil rights, 1903, 5. Journalist Lincoln Steffens exposes the shame of corruption, 1904, 6. Reformer Frederic Howe compares America and Germany, 1911, 7. Sociologist William Graham Sumner denounces reformers' fanaticism, 1913, 8. English suffragist Emmeline Pankhurst recalls American role models, 1914, 9. Cartoon contrasts virtuous women's suffrage with corrupt boss rule, 1915 ; Essays: Class, gender, and race at home : the American birthplace of progressivism / Michael McGerr, American progressivism in the wider Atlantic world / Daniel T. Rodgers --

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