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Chapter 18
Review: AMSCO Ch. 17

Lecture PPT:

Haymarket Affair document collection:

__Mon 1/9__


 * Text pp. 696-706**

1877 Great Railway Strike, Baltimore & Ohio RR, Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor, industrialization, labor movement, "Second Industrial Revolution," mechanization, Western Union, Alexander Graham Bell, Bessemer Process, steel industry, Thomas Edison/Menlo Park, incandescent electric lighting, Edison General Electric Company, George Westinghouse, Nikola Tesla, alternating current, induction motor, railroad industry, public-private finance model, New York Stock Exchange, "robber barons," Jay Gould, Pennsylvania RR, corporate organization and management, blue collar vs white collar, Macy's/Marshall Fields (department stores), retail chains, Sears and Roebuck/Montgomery Ward (mail order), advertising and marketing, consumer culture/revolution, globalization

__Tues 1/10__


 * Text pp. 706-712**

Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, JP Morgan, corporate ownership and finance, vertical vs horizontal integration, railroad pools, Standard Oil Company, shipping rebates, Standard Oil Trust/trusts, holding company, United States Steel, investment banking, House of Morgan, laissez-faire, Adam Smith, "invisible hand," Social Darwinism, Gospel of Success, Gospel of Wealth, Horatio Alger, "rags to riches," Edward Bellamy, //Looking Backward//, Henry George (again), Land and Labor clubs, Henry Demarest Lloyd, Interstate Commerce Act, Sherman Antitrust Act

__Weds 1/11__


 * Text pp. 713-724**

Factory system, wage labor, Frederick Taylor, scientific management, time and motion studies, skilled vs. unskilled industrial labor, women and industrialization, child labor, eight-hour workday, labor unions vs craft/trades unions, National Labor Union, Colored National Labor Union, Great Railway Strike, Knights of Labor, Uriah Stevens, Terence Powderly, 1884 Southwestern Railroad Strike, Haymarket Affair/Massacre, Samuel Gompers, American Federation of Labor, "bread and butter" unionism

Chapter 19
Review: AMSCO Ch. 18 Test: Tues 1/17

__Thurs 1/12__


 * Text pp. 730-744**

Tenements, New York City's boroughs, Manhattan, Lower East Side, urbanization, internal migration vs. immigration, push vs. pull factors, Russian persecution of Jews, Ellis Island, old immigrants (Irish, Germans) vs new immigrants (south/eastern Europe), chain migration, immigrant communities (examples), demographics of new immigrants, immigrant culture (church and saloon), "walking cities," mass transit (omnibuses, rail carriages, cable cars, electric streetcars/trolleys, elevated railway), suburbanization, balloon framing, skyscrapers, urban stratification of neighborhoods, public health and sanitation, urban epidemics, 1871 Great Chicago Fire, urban political machines/bossism, patronage, Tammany Hall, William "Boss" M. Tweed/Tweed Ring

__Fri-Mon 1/13-16__


 * Text pp. 744-758**

Urban entertainments: vaudeville, theater industry, Coney Island and amusement parks, "peanut gallery," blackface, minstrelry, spectator sports (basketball, prize fighting, baseball, and [American] football), National League of Professional Baseball Clubs, segregation in sports, steam presses and wood pulp, Joseph Pulitzer, __New York World__, realism (literature and arts), Samuel Clemens, __The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn__, Ashcan School, expansion of the Victorian domestic sphere, Seven Sisters (Bryn Mawr, Vassar, Wellesley, etc), women's clubs, American racial/ethnic nationalism/chauvinism, Rev. Josiah Strong, __Our Country: Its Possible Future and Present Crisis__, City Beautiful movement, Frederick Law Olmsted, Central Park in NYC, Chautauqua movement, Salvation Army, Anthony Comstock/Comstock Act and obscenity, postwar temperance, Women's Christian Temperance Union, Anti-saloon League, American Protection Association, public education vs parochial schools, University of Chicago/Rockefeller and Stanford University/Leland Stanford