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Introduction .
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Reader’s Guide .
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Timeline of Events .
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Words to Know .
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Text Credits .
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Chapter 1: Notes on the State of Virginia .
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‘‘Query XIX’’ from Thomas Jefferson’s
Notes on the State of Virginia . . . .
Chapter 2: Congressional Report on
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Excerpt from Alexander Hamilton’s
Report to Congress on the Subject of
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Chapter 3: Cotton Gin Petition
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Full text of Eli Whitney’s Cotton Gin
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Chapter 4: Loom and Spindle .
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Excerpts from Loom and Spindle:
or, Life among the Early Mill Girls by
Harriet Hanson Robinson . . . . .
Chapter 5: The Lowell Offering
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‘‘A Second Peep at Factory Life,’’
Josephine L. Baker’s article from
The Lowell Offering . . . . . .
Chapter 6: The Canal Boat .
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Chapter 7: The Education of Henry Adams
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Excerpt from ‘‘Memorial of the Chinese
Six Companies to U. S. Grant, President
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Excerpt from Jacob Riis’s How the Other
Half Lives: Studies among the Tenements
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Chapter 11: Random Reminiscences .
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Excerpt from John D. Rockefeller’s
Random Reminiscences of Men
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Chapter 12: The History of Standard Oil .
Excerpt from Ida M. Tarbell’s
The History of the Standard
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Development of the Industrial U.S.: Primary Sources
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‘‘The Concentration of Wealth:
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Chapter 10: How the Other Half Lives .
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Chapter 9: The Concentration of Wealth .
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Excerpt from The Education of Henry
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Excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s
‘‘The Canal Boat’’ . . . . . . . .
Chapter 8: Memorial of the Chinese Six
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Chapter 13: Antitrust Political Cartoons
‘‘A Trustworthy Beast’’ . . . .
‘‘A Trust Giant’s Point of View’’ .
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Chapter 14: Federal Antitrust Legislation .
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Excerpt from the Interstate Commerce
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Excerpt from the Sherman Antitrust
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Chapter 15: Letters to Michael and Hugh .
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Excerpt from Pauline M. Newman’s
letters to Michael and Hugh [Owens] .
Chapter 16: Eight Hours .
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Lyrics to the popular labor song
‘‘Eight Hours’’ . . . . . . .
Chapter 17: Ragged Dick.
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Excerpts from Horatio Alger’s Ragged
Dick, or, Street Life in New York
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Chapter 18: The Rise of Silas Lapham .
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Where to Learn More .
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Index
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