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HIST 253 History of the United States since 1877

HIST 253 History of the United States since 1877. Elena Razlogova Office: LB 1041-11 Email: erazlogo@alcor.concordia.ca Course website: http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/courses/hist253w08. “I am Canadian” Molson beer commercial, April 2000.

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HIST 253 History of the United States since 1877

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  1. HIST 253History of the United States since 1877 Elena Razlogova Office: LB 1041-11 Email: erazlogo@alcor.concordia.ca Course website: http://digitalhistory.concordia.ca/courses/hist253w08

  2. “I am Canadian” Molson beer commercial, April 2000

  3. “I am Canadian” Molson beer commercial, April 2000 What makes United States different from Canada: Presidents (& federal power) Policing (of labor and radicalism) Assimilation (of immigrants) Obviously, history is more complicated than that.

  4. Pre-1877 Timeline 1861-1865 Civil War 1863 Emancipation Proclamation 1863-1877 Reconstruction 1866 Civil Rights Bill passed over President Johnson’s veto 1866 Ku Klux Klan established 1868 14th Amendment to the Constitution ratified (equal protection under law) 1870 15th Amendment ratified (right to vote) 1877 Compromize between President Hayes and Southern Democrats

  5. The Gilded AgeandIndustrialization

  6. Compromise of 1877 ended Reconstruction: Harper’s Weekly, March 17, 1877

  7. The Great Railroad Strike of 1877: “Colonel Agramonte’s Cavalry Charging on the Mob, at the Halstead street Viaduct, in Chicago, July 16,” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, August 11, 1877

  8. Gilded Age: Who coined the term?

  9. Mark Twain

  10. Outline for Today: 1. Industrialization & Railroads 2. Corporate Power 3. Social Darwinism 4. Labor Unrest

  11. 1. Industrialization(Railroads)

  12. Major railroads in 1880 with time zones

  13. Capital: The race is on: "Admiral" Jim Fisk of the ERIE vs. Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt New York Central Lines.

  14. Labor: The Celebration of the Meeting of the Central Pacific and Union Pacific Railroads at Promontory Point, Utah, May 10, 1869.

  15. A. J. Russell, “Chinese at Laying Last Rail UPRR,” stereoview

  16. Government support: Land grants to the railroads

  17. Population growth: “Great Railway Station at Chicago--Departure of a Train,” Appleton’s Journal, 1870 supplement

  18. Invention: Thomas Edison with the light bulb, invented in 1879

  19. National markets: The first national brand, Uneeda Biscuit (1898, ad from 1900)

  20. National markets: Sears and Roebuck Catalog, 1900

  21. Economic instability: Run on the Fourth National Bank, New York, 1973

  22. 2. Corporate Power

  23. John D. Rockefeller, Portrait by John Singer Sargent, 1917

  24. Corporations had the same rights as persons The 14th amendment: “Section. 1. …No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.” US Supreme Court, 1886, Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific RR co. “The defendant Corporations are persons within the intent of the clause in section 1 of the Fourteen Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, which forbids a State to deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

  25. Next! Cartoon in Puck, September 7, 1904

  26. Henry Adams Criticized Corporations in His Autobiography, The Education of Henry Adams, 1918

  27. 3. Social Darwinism

  28. Charles Darwin, author of The Origin of Species (1859)

  29. Herbert Spencer, author of social Darwinist doctrines of “survival of the fittest and “laissez faire”

  30. Skull Types

  31. Andrew Carnegie, Scottish immigrant who built a “vertically integrated” steel company that dominated the steel industry in the laste 19th century

  32. Horatio Alger books promoted rags to riches stories

  33. 4. Labor Unrest

  34. Conspicuous Display of Wealth, Millionaire’s Row, New York Carnegie Mansion Vanderbilt Chateau

  35. Jacob Riis, Five Cents Lodging, Bayard Street, c. 1889

  36. “Driving the Rioters from Turner Hall,” Harper’s Weekly, August 18, 1877

  37. “The Haymarket Riot,” Harper’s Weekly, May 15, 1886

  38. “The Haymarket Martyrs,” Anarchy and Anarchists, 1889

  39. “The First Dynamite Bomb Thrown in America,” Chicago Inter-Ocean Supplement, 1886

  40. Pin Protesting the Executions, Inscribed “Nov. 11, 1887”

  41. “Justice Hurling a Bomb,” Graphic News, June 5, 1886

  42. Louis Linng, upon being convicted of Haymarket bombing “What is anarchy? … the fact is, that at every attempt to wield the ballot, at every endeavor to combine the efforts of workingmen, you have displayed the brutal violence of the police club, and this is why I have recommended rude force, to combat the ruder force of the police. Perhaps you think, ‘you’ll throw no more bombs’; but let me assure you I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then—mark my words—they will do the bombthrowing!”

  43. The Pullman Strike, 1893-1894

  44. John D. Rockefeller Founds a Day Nursery for Children of Working Italian Women, 1895

  45. Post-1877 Industrialization Timeline 1859 Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species 1864 Herbert Spencer’s Principles of Biology 1873 Panic of 1873 1873 Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner’s Gilded Age 1877 Hayes’s Compromise and end of Reconstruction 1877 Great Railroad Strike 1883 Railroad companies create four time zones 1883 William Graham Sumner’s What Social Classes Owe to Each Other 1886 Haymarket affair 1886 Santa Clara County vs. Southern Pacific Railroad Company 1893-1894 Pullman Strike 1899 Thorstein Veblen’s The Theory of the Leisure Class Themes: Industrialization Corporate Power Social Darwinism Labor Unrest

  46. U.S. Presidents, 1877-Present Rutherford B. Hayes, 1877-1881 James Garfield, 1881 Chester Arthur, 1881-1885 Grover Cleveland, 1885-1889 Benjamin Harrison, 1889-1993 Grover Cleveland, 1993-1997 William McKinley, 1897-1901 Theodore Roosevelt, 1901-1909 William H. Taft, 1909-1913 Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1921 Warren Harding, 1921-1923 Calvin Coolidge, 1923-1929 Herbert Hoover, 1929-1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-1945 Harry Truman, 1945-1953 Dwight Eisenhower, 1953-1961 John F. Kennedy, 1961-1963 Lyndon Johnson, 1963-1969 Richard Nixon, 1969-1974 Gerald Ford, 1974-77 Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981 Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989 George H.W. Bush, 1989-1993 William J. Clinton, 1993-2001 George W. Bush, 2001-present

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