Resources

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A. RECONSTRUCTION AND CIVIL RIGHTS:

• Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction Proclamation
• The "Civil War Amendments" to the Constitution
• Frederick Douglass on Reconstruction
• A Letter from a Slave to His Former Master
• Mississippi Black Code, 1865
• Louisiana Black Code, 1865
• Terrorism in the South: Albion Tourgee on the KKK
• Booker T. Washington's Atlanta Compromise
• W. E. B. Du Bois on Booker T. Washington
• Justice Harlan's Dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson
• American Slave Narratives at the University of Virginia
• Force Acts of 1870 and 1871 (Excerpts)
• Texas v. White
• Plessy v. Ferguson (Excerpt) (For the full text of Plessy v. Ferguson, go to the Cornell University Law Center and locate near the top of the opening menu "Supreme Court--historic decisions." From there follow directions to any of 350 cases, arranged by name of case, name of justice, etc. Links also exist from there to many other constitutional and legal information sites.)

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• Helen Hunt Jackson: A Century of Dishonor
• Indians Tell Their Stories:  Includes the Following:
• Old Lady Horse
• Sitting Bull
• Chief Joseph
• Crazy Horse
• Chief Red Cloud on Peace
• Gilded Age Resources
• Frederick Jackson Turner's Frontier Thesis
• Homesteading
• Children on the Prairie
• Native American Sites

• Daily Lives of Working People:  Includes the Following:
• Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
• Memoirs of a Sweatshop Girl
• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities
• The Steel Mills of Pittsburgh
• A Chinese Immigrant's Story
• The Constitution of the Knights of Labor
• Edward Bellamy: Looking Backward
• William Graham Sumner on Reform
• The Interstate Commerce Act of 1877
• The Sherman Anti-Trust Act of 1890
• Henry George on the Problem of Poverty
• The Populist Platform of 1892
• William Jennings Bryan: "Cross of Gold"

• Topic Summary on Gilded Age Politics
• Lecture Outline for the Progressive Age
• Important Dates of the Progressive Era

DOCUMENTS:

• Theodore Roosevelt on Progressive Issues:
  • Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural, 1905
• Theodore Roosevelt on Labor Issues and Collective Bargaining
• TR on Trusts
• Conservation
• The "New Nationalism"--1910
• Progressive Party Acceptance Speech, 1912
• The Populist Party Platform of 1892
• Lincoln Steffens: "The Shame of the Cities"
• For a Web Site on Steffens and His Work Click Here
• For an Excerpt go to-> Steffens, Excerpt
• Upton Sinclair:  "The Jungle"
• Click here for the Entire Novel
• For an excerpt see -> Sinclair, The Jungle
• The Socialist Party Platform of 1912
• Woodrow Wilson: The New Freedom
• Jane Addams on Government
• Presidents Taft and Wilson on Dollar Diplomacy
• Hammer v. Dagenhart & Lochner v. New York

D: Imperialism and World War I

DOCUMENTS

• Cleveland on Hawaii
• McKinley's Message on Cuba
• The Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
• The Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine
• Alfred Thayer Mahan: Looking Outward
• The Teller Amendment
• Albert J. Beveridge on the New American Empire
• Walter Hines page on the S-A War
• John Hay's Open Door Policy
• Woodrow Wilson's Plea for Neutrality in 1914
• Woodrow Wilson: "Peace without Victory," 1917
• Woodrow Wilson's War Message, April 2, 1917
• Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points
• Senate Opposition to Wilson's War Message of 1917
• The Zimmermann Telegram

• Website on the Centennial Celebration of the Philippine Revolution and Hawaii's long struggle for independence, found by student Doreen Rosal.
• Brigham Young University has a World War I site with many documents and links, located by students Ray Livengood and Ivy ColonRodriguez.

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