The American Vision: Chapter 6, Urban America

The following is a selection of articles that will relate to information in Chapter 6. These are just starting points. For the curious, each article leads to additional articles. Occasionally, an article will be listed in more than one category. Previous Chapter Next Chapter

1. Section 1: Immigration
   • Europeans Flood into America
     • Immigration and Naturalization
     • Ellis Island
     • Irish in America
     • Anti-Catholicism
     • Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882
2. Section 2: Urbanization
   • Americans Migrate to the Cities
     • Skyscrapers
     • Louis Sullivan
   • Separation by Class
     • William K. Vanderbilt
     • Tenements
   • Urban Problems
     • Tammany Hall
     • Thomas Nast
3. Section 3: The Gilded Age
   • Social Darwinism
     • Gilded Age
     • Herbert Spencer
     • Gospel of Wealth
   • A Changing Culture
     • Vaudeville
   • Politics in Washington
     • Civil Service Reform
     • Election of 1884
     • Interstate Commerce Act
     • Wabash, St. Louis & Pacific Railroad v. Illinois
     • McKinley Tariff
     • Sherman Antitrust Act
   • The Rebirth of Reform
     • Secular Critics of Capitalism: Ward, George, and Bellamy
     • Jane Addams
     • Salvation Army
     • Public Education
4. Section 4: Populism
   • Unrest in Rural America
     • Greenbacks
     • The Grange Movement
     • Farmers` Alliance
   • The Rise of Populism
     • Populist Party
     • Graduated Income Tax
   • The Election of 1896
     • William Jennings Bryan
     • William McKinley
5. Section 5: The Rise of Segregation
   • Resistance and Repression
     • Sharecroppers
     • Colored Farmers` Alliance
     • End of Reconstruction
     • Plessy v. Ferguson
   • The African-American Response
     • Lynching
     • Booker T. Washington
     • W.E.B. DuBois