1. Introduction
- America in 2010
- Pres. Obama’s Place in History?
- History’s Place in Your Life?
- Review of History 207
- Syllabus
2. The West
- In Search of the West
- Where? When? What?
- Turner’s Thesis
- Claiming the Land
- Native American Way
- Anglo American Way
- Extra-legal Way
- European-Indian Relations
- Seven Myths
- Sources of Conflict
3. Cowboys and Indians
- Chief Joseph & the Nez Percé
- Lewis and Clark
- U.S.-Nez Percé Conflict
- Indian Reservations
- Reservation Act (1867)
- Dawes Act (1887)
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild West
- “Wild West Show”
- Revisionist History
- The Indian Wars
- Little Bighorn (1876)
- Wounded Knee (1890)
4. Corporations & Unions
- Gilded Age Economy
- Railroads
- Managerial Revolution
- Market Expansion
- Vertical Combination (or Integration)
- Robber Barons
- Laissez Faire Liberalism
- Adam Smith, Wealth of Nations (1776)
- Gilded Age: Carnegie and Rockefeller
- Labor Unions
- Powderly, Knights of Labor
- Gompers, American Federation of Labor (AFL)
- Big Business Fights Back
- Foundation of Society?
5. Gilded Age Politics
- Overview
- Passive Presidency
- Key Issues
- Supreme Court
- Legal Realism
- Fourteenth Amendment
- Presidential Politics
- Machines
- Mugwumps
- Cleveland’s Presidencies
- Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890)
6. Populism
- Local Politics
- Ethnoreligious Cultural Politics
- Bennett Law
- Populism
- Key Issues [Doc. 6C]:
- Tariffs
- Inflation
- Currency Expansion
- Subtreasury Plan
- Study Questions
- Populism’s Legacy for America
7. An American Empire
- William McKinley
- Protective Tariff
- Annexation of Hawaii
- Spanish-American War
- Foreign Policy, ca. 1900 vs. ca. 2000
8. Constitutional Amendments (video)
