Gilded Age and Progressive Era

William A. Link is Richard J. Milbauer Professor of History at the University of Florida. His publications include Roots of Secession: Slavery and Politics in Antebellum Virginia (2003) and Righteous Warrior: Jesse Helms and the Rise of Modern American Conservatism (2008). Susannah J. Link is instructor in American history at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

• Series Editors’ Preface ixAcknowledgments to Sources xiiIntroduction 1Prelude: Mark Twain and the Gilded Age 11Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner, from The Gilded Age , 1873Part I New Frontiers 171 The New South 191 Henry W. Grady, “The New South,” 1886 192 Henry McNeal Turner on African American Civil Rights, 1889 223 William D. Kelley, from The Old South and New , 1888 264 Lewis Hine, Photographs of Southern Textile Workers, 1908–09 312 The New West 341 T.S. Kenderdine, from California Revisited, 1858–1897 , 1898 342 Theodore Roosevelt, from Ranch Life and the Hunting‐Trail , 1888 393 Maria Amparo Ruiz de Burton, from The Squatter and the Don , (1885) 424 Workingmen’s Party, An Address from the Workingmen of San Francisco to Their Brothers throughout the Pacific Coast, 1878 483 Native Americans 511 Zitkala‐Sa, Native Americans and White Attempts to Assimilate, from “The School Days of an Indian Girl,” 1900 512 Chief Joseph, Selected Statements and Speeches by the Nez Perce Chief, 1877–79 543 Lakota Accounts of the Massacre at Wounded Knee , 1896 574 Photographs and Images from Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show, 1896–99 62Part II Industrial Society 654 Big Business 671 Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth,” 1889 672 Herbert Spencer, “The Coming Slavery,” 1884 703 Henry Demarest Lloyd, “The Lords of Industry,” 1884 724 US Supreme Court, Slaughterhouse Cases , 1873 775 Frederick Winslow Taylor, from The Principles of Scientific Management , 1911 836 Russell Conwell, from Acres of Diamonds , 1915 895 Gilded Age Society 981 Thorstein Veblen, from The Theory of the Leisure Class , 1899 982 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, from “The Yellow Wall‐Paper,” 1892 1043 Henry George, from Progress and Poverty , 1879 1094 Photographs of Gilded Age Mansions 1125 Hubert Howe Bancroft, The Woman’s Building, from The Book of the Fair , 1893 1146 Working People 1201 Stephen Crane, “In the Depths of a Coal Mine,” 1894 1202 Walter A. Wyckoff, from The Workers: An Experiment in Social Reality , 1899 1253 Image from The National Police Gazette , 1879 1294 Edward Eggleston, Hardshell Preacher, from The Hoosier Schoolmaster , 1871 1305 Leon Ray Livingston, Tramping in America, 1910 1356 Upton Sinclair, from The Jungle , 1906 1417 Immigrants in the Industrial Age 1471 Abraham Cahan, “The Russian Jew in America,” 1898 1472 Treaty Regulating Immigration from China, 1880 1533 Samuel Bryan, “Mexican Americans and Southwestern Growth,” 1912 1574 Jacob Riis, Photographs from How the Other Half Lives, 1890 1635 Theodore Roosevelt, Hyphenated Americanism, 1915 1656 The Emergence of Reform Judaism, 1883 and 1885 169Part III Social Conflict 1758 Populism 1771 Annie L. Diggs, “The Women in the Alliance Movement,” 1892 1772 The Omaha Platform: Launching the Populist Party, 1892 1833 Thomas E. Watson, “The Negro Questionin the South,” 1892 1884 William Jennings Bryan, “Cross of Gold” Speech, 1896 1949 The Coming of Jim Crow 2011 Ida B. Wells, “Lynch Law in America,” 1900 2012 U.S. Supreme Court, Plessy v. Ferguson , 1896 2043 Booker T. Washington, The Atlanta Compromise, 1895 2094 W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Booker T. Washington and Others,” from The Souls of Black Folk , 1903 2125 Images from the North Carolina White Supremacy Campaign, 1898 2166 Mary Church Terrell, “What It Means to be Colored in the Capital of the United States,” 1906 21810 Labor Protest 2231 Roger O’Mara, Testimony on Railroad Labor Strikes, 1878 2232 United States Strike Commission, Report on the Chicago Pullman Strike, 1894 2273 Constance D. Leupp, “The Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike,” 1909 2314 Photographs of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, 1911 236Part IV Reform 24111 Rebuilding American Institutions 2431 John Dewey, from The School and Society , 1899 2432 Walter Rauschenbusch, from Christianity and the Social Crisis , 1907 2473 Charles Davenport, from Heredity in Relation to Eugenics , 1915 2504 Margaret Sanger, “ Morality and Birth Control ,” 1918 2535 Frances E. Willard, from Women and Temperance , 1883 2566 Chicago Vice Commission, The Social Evil in Chicago, 1911 26012 The Political System 2661 Robert M. La Follette, “Peril in the Machine,” 1897 2662 Isaac F. Marcosson, The Dayton Plan, 1914 2743 Helen Valeska Bary, The Suffrage Movement in Southern California, 1910–11 2784 Seventeenth Amendment to the US Constitution(direct election of senators), 1913 2835 Marie Jenney Howe on Women’s Public Role, 1910 284Part V Imperialism and War 29113 Imperialism and Anti‐imperialism 2931 Mayo W. Hazeltine, “What Shall Be Done about the Philippines?” 1897 2932 Platt Amendment, 1901 2993 Jane Addams, “Democracy or Militarism,” 1899 3014 Photograph from the Tour of the Great White Fleet, 1907–09 30414 The Debate about World War I 3061 W.E.B. Du Bois on the Postwar Peace, 1918 3062 Eugene V. Debs, The Canton, Ohio, Anti‐War Speech, 1918 3073 Espionage Act, 1917 3114 Woodrow Wilson, The Fourteen Points Address, 1918 315Further Reading 321Index 325