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  • Greenwood, Janette Thomas.
     
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  • United States -- History -- 1865-1898 -- Sources.
     
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  • United States -- Social conditions -- 1865-1918 -- Sources.
     
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    The Gilded Age : a history in documents / Janette Thomas Greenwood.
    by Greenwood, Janette Thomas.
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    New York : Oxford University Press, c2000.
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    Electronic Resourcehttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0605/99098194-d.html
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    0195105230 (acid-free paper)
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    Pages from history
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    191 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
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    What is a document? -- How to read a document -- Introduction -- Big business, industry, and the American dream -- Captains of industry ; Muckraking ; Survival of the fittest ; Responsibilities of the rich ; From rags to riches -- Immigration to a promised land -- Arrival ; Opportunity ; Sacrifices ; Racism ; Advice -- Sorrows of labor -- Knights of labor ; Haymarket Affair ; Trade unions ; Industrial unions ; Women in the work force ; Child labor ; Homestead Lockout -- Perils and promise of urban life -- Social activism ; Social Darwinism ; Ward bosses ; Prohibition -- Jacob Riis and the power of the photograph -- New South -- Sharecropper's contract ; Perfect democracy ; Cotton mill workers ; Rise of Jim Crow -- West -- Indian victory ; Whitening Indians ; Pioneers ; Exodusters ; Mexican Americans fight back -- Farmers' revolt -- Farmers' alliances ; Populist Party ; Election 1896 -- United States builds an empire -- Spanish-American War ; Anti-imperialism ; Philippines -- New women, strenuous men, and leisure -- Strenuous life ; Sports ; Rebellious women.
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    Uses a wide variety of documents to show how Americans dealt with an age of extremes from 1887 to 1900, including rapid industrialization, unemployment, unprecedented wealth, and immigration.
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    Aiea Public LibraryYA -- Nonfiction973.8 GrChecked InAdd Copy to MyList
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