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Give Me Liberty!
AN AMERICAN HISTORY
FOURTH EDITION
by
Eric Foner
Judge magazine cartoon condemning William Jennings
Bryan and his “cross of gold” speech for defiling the
symbols of Christianity.
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The Second Industrial Revolution
The Transformation of the West
Politics in a Gilded Age
Freedom in the Gilded Age
Labor and the Republic
Forging the Shaft
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The Second Industrial
Revolution
 Focus Question:
What factors combined to make the
United States a mature industrial society
after the Civil War?
The Second Industrial
Revolution: Economy
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The Industrial Economy
The Second Industrial
Revolution: Railroads
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Railroads and the National Market
Table 16.1 Indicators of Economic Change, 1870–1920
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The dedication of the Statue of Liberty
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The Strike, an 1886 painting by the
German-born artist Robert Koehler
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Building railroads in the West required
remarkable feats of engineering.
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The Second Industrial
Revolution: Innovation
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The Spirit of Innovation
Competition and Consolidation
Map 16.1 The Rail Road Network, 1880
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Figure 16.1 Railroad Mileage, 1830–1975
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Travel became globalized in the
second half of the nineteenth century.
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The cover of the 1897 Sears, Roebuck & Co. catalog.
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Thomas Edison’s laboratory at Menlo Park, New Jersey
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The Progress of the Century
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The Second Industrial
Revolution: Carnegie and
Rockefeller
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The Rise of Andrew Carnegie
The Triumph of John D. Rockefeller
Map 16.2 U.S. Steel: A Vertically Integrated Corporation
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The Electricity Building at the Chicago World’s
Fair of 1893
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Next!, a cartoon from the magazine Puck
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The Second Industrial
Revolution: Workers
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Workers’ Freedom in an Industrial Age
Sunshine and Shadow: Increasing Wealth
and Poverty
A turn-of-the-century photograph of the Casino Grounds,
Newport, Rhode Island
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The opening image in Matthew Smith’s book Sunshine
and Shadow in New York
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Baxter Street Court
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The Transformation
of the West
 Focus Question:
How was the West transformed
economically and socially in this period?
The Transformation
of the West: Diversity
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A Diverse Region
Across the Continent
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The family of David Hilton on their Nebraska
homestead in 1887
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The Transformation
of the West: Farming
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Farming on the Middle Border
Bonanza Farms
Large-Scale Agriculture in California
An engraving from the early 1880s
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California Harvest Scene–Dr. Glenn’s Farm in Colusa County
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In the late 1800s, California tried to attract immigrants
by advertising its pleasant climate and the availability of land
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The Transformation
of the West: Corporate
West
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The Cowboy and the Corporate West
The Transformation
of the West: Conflict
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Conflict on the Mormon Frontier
The Transformation
of the West: Indians
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The Subjugation of the Plains Indians
“Let Me Be a Free Man”
Map 16.3 Indian Reservations, ca. 1890
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Albert Bierstadt’s 1863 painting The Rocky Mountains,
Lander’s Peak
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Hunters shooting buffalo as the Kansas-Pacific Railroad
cuts across the West, 1870s
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Sitting Bull
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The Battle of the Little Bighorn
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The Transformation
of the West: Indian Life
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Remaking Indian Life
The Dawes Act
Indian Citizenship
A quilt created by a Sioux woman who lived on a
reservation in South Dakota around 1900
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Boys from the Lakota tribe on their arrival (left)
and during their stay (right) at Carlisle
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Remaking Indian Life
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The Transformation
of the West: Societies
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The Ghost Dance and Wounded Knee
Settler Societies and Global Wests
A 1911 poster advertising the federal government’s
sale of land formerly possessed by Indians
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The Ghost Dance, performed by Sioux Indians
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Politics in a Gilded Age
 Focus Question:
Was the Gilded Age political system
effective in meeting goals?
Politics in a Gilded
Age: Corruption
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The Corruption of Politics
The Bosses of the Senate
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Politics in a Gilded
Age: Dead Center
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The Politics of Dead Center
Map 16.4 Political Stalemate, 1876–1892
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Politics in a Gilded
Age: Economy
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Government and the Economy
Reform Legislation
James G. Blaine Cartoon
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Politics in a Gilded
Age: Conflict
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Political Conflict in the States
Laying Tracks at Union Square for a Railroad
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Freedom in the
Gilded Age
 Focus Question:
How did the economic development of
the Gilded Age affect American
freedom?
Freedom in the Gilded
Age: Social Problem
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The Social Problem
Freedom, Inequality, and Democracy
Freedom in the Gilded
Age: Social Darwinism
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Social Darwinism in America
Freedom in the Gilded
Age: Courts
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Liberty of Contract
The Courts and Freedom
Detail from Capital and Labor
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Labor and the
Republic
 Focus Question:
How did reformers of the period
approach the problems of an industrial
society?
Labor and the Republic:
Labor question
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“The Overwhelming Labor Question”
The Knights of Labor and the
“Conditions Essential to Liberty”
Ruins of the Pittsburgh Round House
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The Ironworkers’ Noontime
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An engraving from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper
shows black delegate Frank J. Farrell introducing
Terence V. Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor.
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Labor and the
Republic: reformers
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Middle-Class Reformers
Progress and Poverty
The Great Labor Parade of September 1
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Labor and the
Republic: reform
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The Cooperative Commonwealth
Bellamy’s Utopia
Protestants and Moral Reform
A Social Gospel
Edward Bellamy, author of the utopian novel
Looking Backward
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Labor and the
Republic: politics
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The Haymarket Affair
Labor and Politics
A cartoon from the 1880s depicts radicals as foreigners
attempting to destroy the foundations of American society.
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Pro-labor cartoon from 1888
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Review
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The Second Industrial Revolution
Focus Question: What factors combined to make the United States a
mature industrial society after the Civil War?
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The Transformation of the West
Focus Question: How was the West transformed economically and
socially in this period?
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Politics in a Gilded Age
Focus Question: Was the Gilded Age political system effective in
meeting goals?
Review continued
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Freedom in the Gilded Age
Focus Question: How did the economic development of the Gilded Age
affect American freedom?
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Labor and the Republic
Focus Question: How did reformers of the period approach the
problems of an industrial society?
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Freedom’s Boundaries, at
Home and Abroad, 1890-1900
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The Populist Challenge
The Segregated South
Redrawing the Boundaries
Becoming a World Power
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FOURTH EDITION
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