Edited by John D. Buenker and Joseph Buenker
Includes: Topic Finder, thematic essays, A-Z entries, illustrations, sidebars, documents, chronology, master bibliography
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Description: Extending from the 1870s to World War I, the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era mark a major turning point in American history. During this colorful and influential period, the United States was transformed from an isolated, rural, agricultural nation into an urban, industrial, multicultural world power. It was an era marked by bigness: Big Business, Big Labor, and big ideas. These forces changed people’s everyday lives as a technical revolution swept the country, giving birth to such inventions as the telephone, light bulb, automobile, airplane, radio, and motion pictures. It was an era punctuated by disasters such as the Chicago Fire, the Johnstown Flood, and the San Francisco Earthquake, as well as two presidential assassinations. The same era also gave us ragtime, vaudeville, Coney Island, and Major League Baseball.
Symbolized by larger-than-life figures—Teddy Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Mark Twain, Emma Goldman, and W.E.B. Du Bois, to name just a few—the Gilded Age and the Progressive Era set the stage for the United States to become the world’s industrial powerhouse and gave birth to the modern era.
This illustrated encyclopedia provides definitive coverage of the social and cultural developments of the period, as well as its political and economic history. Edited by the distinguished historian John Buenker and librarian Joseph Buenker, the work features hundreds of detailed entries on issues, events, people, and ideas, and includes original documents, sidebar features, and in-depth essays on major themes and developments.
Contents:
Introduction: The Gilded Age and Progressive Era: 1877–1919
Primary Documents
Chronology
Abbott, Edith, and Grace Abbott
Adams, Brooks
Adams, Charles Francis
Adams, Henry
Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916)
Addams, Jane
Adler, Felix
African Americans (overview)
Aldrich, Nelson Wilmarth
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich-Vreeland Currency Act (1908)
Alger, Horatio
Alien Land Law (1913)
Alliance Movement
Allison, William B.
Altgeld, John Peter
American Association for Labor Legislation
American Association of University Professors
American Association of University Women
American Civil Liberties Union
American Federation of Labor
American Forestry Association
American Free Trade League
American Indians (overview)
American Protective Association
American Red Cross
American Social Science Association
American Society for Municipal Improvements
American Society of Equity
Americanization
Amusement Parks
Anarchists
Anderson, Sherwood
Angell, George T.
Animal Protection
Anthony, Susan B.
Anthracite Coal Strike of 1902
Anti-Catholicism
Anti-Imperialist League
Anti-Monopoly Parties
Anti-Saloon League
Anti-Semitism
Antismoking Movement
Antitrust Legislation
Anti-Unionism
Antivice Crusades
Armory Show (1913)
Armour, Philip D.
Arthur, Chester A.
Art and Architecture (overview)
Arts and Crafts Movement
Asian Americans
Atlanta Compromise (1895)
Atlantic Monthly, The
Australian Ballot
Automobile
Aviation
Azusa Street Revival (1906–1909)
Back to Africa Movement
Back to the Farm Movement
Bailey, Liberty Hyde
Bailey v. Drexel Furniture Company (1922)
Baker, Newton D.
Baker, Ray Stannard
Balch, Emily Greene
Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy
Barnum, Phineas T.
Baruch, Bernard Mannes
Baseball
Basketball
Baum, L. Frank
Beard, Charles Austin
Bell, Alexander Graham
Bellamy, Edward
Berger, Victor, and Meta Berger
Bergh, Henry
Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
Bierce, Ambrose
Birth of a Nation (1915)
Black Elk
Black Sox Scandal
Blaine, James G.
Blanc, Marie-Therese (Theodore Bentzon)
Bland-Allison Act (1878)
Blatch, Harriot Stanton
Bliss, William D.P.
Bly, Nellie
Boas, Franz
Bok, Edward William
Bonnin, Gertrude
Borah, William E.
Boston Police Strike (1919)
Bourbons
Bourne, Randolph
Boxer Rebellion (1900)
Boy Scouts of America
Brady, “Diamond Jim”
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz
Breckenridge, Madeline McDowell
Breckenridge, Sophonisba
Brisbane, Arthur
Brooklyn Bridge
Brooks, Van Wyck
Brown, Olympia
Brownsville Affair (1906)
Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad Company (1916)
Bryan, William Jennings
Bryce, James
Buffalo Soldiers
Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
Burbank, Luther
Bureau of Corporations, United States
Bureau of Municipal Research
Burleson, Albert Sidney
Burnham, Daniel Hudson
Burns, Lucy
Butler, Nicholas Murray
Cable, George Washington
Cahan, Abraham
Camp, Walter
Canadian Reciprocity
Cannon, Joseph G.
Carnegie, Andrew
Carver, George Washington
Cassatt, Mary
Cather, Willa
Catt, Carrie Chapman
Cattell, James McKeen
Chain Stores
Chandler, William E.
Chaplin, Charles
Charity Organization Societies
Chautauqua Movement
Chicago School of Sociology
Child Labor Legislation
Child Saving
Children and Youth (overview)
Children’s Bureau, United States
Childs, Richard S.
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Churchill, Winston
Circuses
City Beautiful
City Manager
City Planning
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Civil Service Reform
Clark, James Beauchamp “Champ”
Clark, John Bates
Clay, Laura
Cleveland, Grover
Coal Mining Safety Legislation
Cobb, Tyrus Raymond
Cochise
Cody, William Frederick “Buffalo Bill”
Colby, Clara Bewick
Collective Bargaining
Colored Farmers’ Alliance
Columbian Exposition (1893)
Commission Form of Municipal Government
Commission on Country Life
Commission on Industrial Relations
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
Committee on Public Information
Commons, John R.
Compromise of 1877
Comstock, Anthony
Conkling, Roscoe
Conscientious Objectors
Conservation
Constitutional Amendments
Contract Labor
Convict Lease System
Cooke, Jay
Cooley, Charles Horton
Cooling-Off Treaties
Cooper, Peter
Cooperative Movement
Corbett, James
Corliss Engine
Corporation Excise Tax Act (1909)
Corrupt Practices Laws
Cotton Futures Act (1914)
Council of National Defense
Country Life Movement
Cox, James Middleton
Coxey, Jacob S.
Crane, Caroline Bartlett
Crane, Stephen
Crazy Horse
Creel, George
Cripple Creek Strike
Crisis, The
Croker, Richard
Croly, Herbert
Cummins, Albert Baird
Dana, Charles Anderson
Daniels, Josephus
Darrow, Clarence S.
Darwinism
Davis, Richard Harding
Dawes, Henry Laurens
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
De Forest, Lee
De Leon, Daniel
DeBernardi, Giovanni Battista
Debs, Eugene V.
Dell, Floyd
Department of Commerce and Labor
Department Stores
Depression of the1890s
Dewey, John
Dewey, Melvil
DeWitt, Benjamin Parke
Disfranchisement
Divorce
Dixon, Thomas, Jr.
Dodd, William Edward
Dollar Diplomacy
Donnelly, Ignatius
Dorr, Rheta Childe
Douglass, Frederick
Dowie, John Alexander
Dreier, Mary Elizabeth
Dreiser, Theodore
Du Bois, W.E.B.
Duke, James Buchanan
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Dunne, Edward F.
Dunne, Finley Peter
Durant, William C.
Eastman, Charles Alexander (Ohiyesa)
Eastman, Crystal
Eastman, George
Eastman, Max
Economy, The (overview)
Eddy, Mary Baker
Edison, Thomas Alva
Education
Efficiency
Eight-Hour Workday
Einstein, Albert
Election of 1876
Election of 1880
Election of 1884
Election of 1888
Election of 1892
Election of 1896
Election of 1900
Election of 1904
Election of 1908
Election of 1912
Election of 1916
Election of 1920
Elections, At-Large
Elections, Nonpartisan
Elections, Primary
Eliot, Charles W.
Elkins Act (1903)
Ely, Richard T.
Espionage Act (1917)
Eugenics
Everybody’s Magazine
Fairbanks, Charles W.
Farmers’ Union
Federal Aid Road Act (1916)
Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America
Federal Farm Loan Act (1916)
Federal Reserve Act (1913)
Federal Trade Commission
Field, Marshall
Field, Stephen J.
Filene, Edward Albert
Fisher, Dorothy Canfield
Fisher, Irving
Flint v. Stone Tracy Company (1911)
Flower, B.O.
Folk, Joseph Wingate
Food Administration, United States
Football
Ford, Henry
Ford, Henry Jones
Foreign and International Relations (overview)
Forest Service, United States
Fortune, T. Thomas
Foundations
Frank, Leo Max
Freud, Sigmund
Freund, Ernst
Frick, Henry Clay
Frost, Robert
Fuel Administration
Fundamentalism
Gale, Zona
Galveston Hurricane (1900)
Garden City Movement
Garfield, James A.
Garfield, James R.
Garland, Hamlin
Garner, John Nance
Garvey, Marcus
Gary, Elbert H.
Gary Plan
Gaston, Lucy
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
General Slocum
Gentlemen’s Agreement (1908)
George, Henry
Geronimo
Gerry, Elbridge T., III
Ghost Dance
Gibbons, James
Gibbs, Josiah Willard
Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Gilman, Daniel Coit
Girl Scouts of America
Gladden, Washington
Glass, Carter
Godkin, Edwin L.
Goldman, Emma
Goldmark, Josephine Clara
Gompers, Samuel
Gompers v. Buck’s Stove and Range Company (1911)
Good Roads Movement
Goodnow, Frank Johnson
Gospel of Wealth
Gould, Jay
Government (overview)
Grand Army of the Republic
Granger Laws
Grant, Madison
Great Strike of 1877
Greenback Party
Griffith, David Wark
Haley, Margaret A.
Hall, G. Stanley
Hall, Prescott Farnsworth
Hamilton, Alice
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Hancock, Winfield Scott
Handy, W.C.
Hanna, Marcus Alonzo
Hard, William
Harding, Warren G.
Harlan, John Marshall
Harmon, Judson
Harper, Ida Husted
Harper, William Rainey
Harper’s Weekly
Harriman, Edward Henry
Harriman, W. Averell
Harris, Joel Chandler
Harris, William Torrey
Harrison, Benjamin
Harrison, Carter Henry, I, and Carter Henry Harrison II
Harvey, George
Hawaiian Annexation (1898)
Hay, John
Hayes, Rutherford B.
Haymarket Affair (1886)
Haywood, William Dudley
Health Insurance Legislation
Hearst, William Randolph
Hendrick, Burton Jesse
Henri, Robert
Hepburn Act (1906)
Herron, George D.
Hickok, James Butler “Wild Bill”
Hill, James J.
Hillquit, Morris
Hine, Lewis
Hitchcock, Gilbert
Hoar, George Frisbie
Holden v. Hardy (1898)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.
Home Rule
Homer, Winslow
Homestead Strike
Homosexuality
Hoover, Herbert
Houdini, Harry
House, Edward Mandell
Housing Reform
Howe, Frederic C.
Howells, William Dean
Hughes, Charles Evans
Hull, Cordell
Hunt, Richard Morris
Hunter, Robert
Huntington, Henry E.
Ickes, Harold L.
Immigrants’ Protective League
Immigration and Ethnicity (overview)
Immigration Commission, United States
Immigration Restriction
Immigration Restriction League
Imperialism
Income Tax, Federal
Indian Boarding Schools
Industrial Commission, United States
Industrial Democracy
Industrial Workers of the World
Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Ingersoll, Robert G.
Initiative
Institutional Economics
Insull, Samuel
Insurance Companies, Regulation of
International Council of Women (1888)
International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union
Interstate Commerce Law
Interurban Railways
Ireland, John
Irrigation
Ives, Charles E.
Jackson, Helen Hunt
James, Henry
James, William
Jameson, John Franklin
Johnson, Hiram W.
Johnson, Jack
Johnson, Tom Loftin
Johnson, Walter
Johnstown Flood (1889)
Jolson, Al
Jones, Mother
Jones, Samuel M.
Joplin, Scott
Jordan, David Starr
Joseph, Chief
Junior Republics
Juvenile Courts
Kallen, Horace M.
Keating-Owen Act (1916)
Keller, Helen
Keller v. United States (1909)
Kelley, Florence
Kelley, Oliver H.
Kellogg, Paul Underwood
Kellor, Frances Alice
Kern-McGillicuddy Act (1916)
Knapp, Seaman Asahel
Knights of Labor
Knox, Philander C.
La Flesche, Francis
La Follette, Belle Case
La Follette, Robert, Sr.
La Follette’s Magazine
La Follette’s Seaman’s Act (1915)
Labor and Industrial Relations (overview)
Labor Legislation, State
Landis, Kenesaw Mountain
Lathrop, Julia Clifford
Lauck, William Jett
Lawrence Textile Strike (1912)
Lawson, Thomas W.
Lazarus, Emma
League of Nations
Lease, Mary Elizabeth
Legislative Reference Library
Leisure and Popular Culture (overview)
Lenin, Vladimir I.
Lenroot, Irvine L.
Lewis, Sinclair
Lewis, William Henry
Liberty Loans
Libraries, Public
Lincoln, Robert Todd
Lincoln County Wars
Lincoln-Roosevelt League
Lindberg, Charles A.
Lindsey, Benjamin Barr
Lippmann, Walter
Literature (overview)
Little Bighorn, Battle of the (1876)
Lloyd, Henry Demarest
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Loewe v. Lawlor (1908)
London, Jack
London, Meyer
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock (1903)
Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904)
Lovejoy, Owen R.
Low, Seth
Lowden, Frank Orren
Lowell, Abbott Lawrence
Lowell, James Russell
Ludlow Massacre (1914)
Lusk Committee
Lynching
Macfadden, Bernarr
Macune, Charles W.
Magazines, Mass Circulation
Mahan, Alfred Thayer
Mail-Order Catalogs
Maine
Mann Act (1910)
Mann-Elkins Act (1910)
Markham, Edwin
Marshall, Thomas R.
Masses, The
Masters, Edgar Lee
Mayo, Charles H., and William J. Mayo
McAdoo, William Gibbs
McCarthy, Charles
McClatchy, C.K.
McClure, Samuel S.
McCormick, Cyrus Hall
McDowell, Mary Eliza
McGovern, Francis E.
McKelway, Alexander J.
McKinley, William
McReynolds, James Clark
Mead, George Herbert
Meat Inspection Act (1906)
Mellon, Andrew W.
Mental Hygiene
Michelson, Albert Abraham
Military Reform
Minnesota Rate Case
Mitchell, John
Mobile Pledge
Modernism
Molly Maguires
Moody, Dwight L.
Morgan, John Pierpont
Moskowitz, Henry, and Belle Lindner
Moskowitz
Most, Johann
Mothers’ Pensions Acts
Motion Pictures
Muckraking
Mugwumps
Muir, John
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Municipal Bath Movement
Municipal Housekeeping
Municipal Ownership of Utilities
Munsey, Frank
Murphy, Charles Francis
Murphy, Edgar Gardner
Museums and Historic Sites
Music (overview)
Nast, Thomas
National Afro-American League
National American Woman Suffrage Association
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
National Association of Manufacturers
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage
National Board of Farm Organizations
National Catholic Welfare Council
National Child Labor Committee
National Citizens League
National Civic Federation
National Conference on Charities and Corrections
National Consumers League
National Education Association
National Housing Association
National Industrial Conference Board
National Labor Union
National Monetary Commission
National Municipal League
National Negro Business League
National Park Service, United States
National Progressive Republican League
National Security League
National Tax Association
National War Labor Board, United States
National Woman’s Party
National Women’s Trade Union League
Naturalism
Nearing, Scott
Neighborhood Idea
Neutrality
New Freedom
New Nationalism
New South
New York State Factory Investigating Commission
Newell, Frederick Haynes
Newlands, Francis G.
Newspapers, Mass Circulation
Nonpartisan League
Norris, Frank
Norris, George William
North American Civic League for Immigrants
Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
Norton, Charles Eliot
Ochs, Adolph S.
O’Hare, Kate Richards
O’Keeffe, Georgia
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Sr.
Olney, Richard
Open Door Policy
O’Reilly, Lenora
Oshkosh, Reginald
Ostrogorski, Moisei Yakovlevich
O’Sullivan, Mary Kenney
Ouimet, Francis
Ovington, Mary White
Page, Thomas Nelson
Page, Walter Hines
Page Act (1875)
Palmer, Alexander Mitchell
Panama Canal
Panama-Pacific International Exposition (1915)
Pan-American Exposition (1901)
Panic of 1907
Park, Maud Wood
Parker, Alton Brooks
Parker, Quanah
Paterson Textile Strike (1913)
Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange)
Patten, Simon N.
Paul, Alice
Peace Movement
Peirce, Charles S.
Penal Reform
Penney, J.C.
Penrose, Boies
Pentecostalism
People’s Party (Populists)
Perkins, Frances
Perkins, George W.
Pershing, John Joseph
Phelan, James D.
Phillips, David Graham
Phillips, Ulrich B.
Pickford, Mary
Pinchot, Amos R.E.
Pinchot, Gifford
Pingree, Hazen S.
Pittsburgh Survey (1907)
Platt, Thomas Collier
Platt Amendment (1902)
Playground Association of America
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Plumb Plan (1919)
Plunkitt, George W.
Poe, Clarence
Poindexter, Miles
Police Reform
Political Machines
Politics (overview)
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company (1895)
Polygamy
Pomerene, Atlee
Post, Louis Freeland
Postal Savings Banks
Pound, Roscoe
Powderly, Terence V.
Powell, John Wesley
Pragmatism
Pratt, Richard Henry
Preparedness
Preservation Societies
Professional Associations
Progressive Party
Prohibition
Psychiatry
Public Health Movement
Public Utility Regulation
Pujo Committee
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pullman, George M.
Pure Food and Drug Act (1906)
Quay, Matthew S.
Quintasket, Christine
Race Riots
Railroad Regulation, Federal
Randolph, A. Philip
Rankin, Jeannette
Rauschenbusch, Walter
Readjuster Movement
Realism
Recall
Reclamation Act (1902)
Record, George L.
Red Scare
Redeemers
Reed, James A.
Reed, John
Reed, Thomas Brackett
Reed, Walter
Referendum
Religion (overview)
Remington, Frederic
Revivalism
Richards, Ellen Henrietta Swallow
Riis, Jacob August
Robber Barons
Robins, Raymond, and Margaret Dreier Robins
Robinson, Edwin Arlington
Robinson, James Harvey
Rockefeller, John D.
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Roosevelt, Theodore
Roosevelt Corollary
Root, Elihu
Rosenwald, Julius
Ross, Edward A.
Royce, Josiah
Rural Free Delivery
Rural Post Road Act (1916)
Russell, Charles Edward
Russell, Lillian
Ruth, George Herman “Babe”
Ryan, John A.
Sabath, Adolph Joseph
Sabbatarianism
Saint-Gaudens, Augustus
Salvation Army
San Francisco Earthquake (1906)
Sanger, Margaret
Santayana, George
Sargent, John Singer
Schneiderman, Rose
Schofield, John M.
School and Society
Schurz, Carl
Schwab, Charles M.
Scientific Management
Scudder, (Julia) Vida Dutton
Sears, Roebuck and Company
Seattle General Strike (1919)
Sedition Act (1918)
Segregation
Selective Service
Seligman, Edwin R.A.
Sewall, May Wright
Seymour, William Joseph
Sharecropping
Shaw, Albert
Shaw, Anna Howard
Sheldon, Charles M.
Sheppard-Towner Act (1921)
Sherman, John
Sherman, William T.
Sherman Silver Purchase Act (1890)
Shipping Act of 1916
Short Ballot
Sierra Club
Simkhovitch, Mary Melinda Kingsbury
Simons, Algie Martin, and May Wood Simons
Sinclair, Upton
Singer, Isaac Merritt
Single-Tax Movement
Sitting Bull
Sloan, John
Small, Albion W.
Smith, Alfred Emanuel
Smith, Hoke
Smith, J. Allen
Smith-Hughes Act (1917)
Smith-Lever Act (1914)
Smoot, Reed
Social Engineering
Social Gospel
Social Hygiene
Social Insurance
Social Settlements
Socialism
Socialist Labor Party
Socialist Party of America
Sociological Jurisprudence
Southern Sociological Congress
Spalding, Albert G.
Spanish-American War
Spargo, John
Spencer, Herbert
Spillman, William Jasper
Square Deal
Standard Oil
Standing Bear, Luther
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Starr, Ellen Gates
Stead, William T.
Steel
Steel Strike of 1919
Steffens, (Joseph) Lincoln
Steichen, Edward
Stieglitz, Alfred
Stimson, Henry Louis
Stokes, James Graham Phelps, and Rose Pastor Stokes
Straight, Willard D.
Straus, Oscar S.
Street Railways
Strong, Josiah
Sullivan, John L.
Sullivan, Louis H.
Sullivan, Mark
Sulzer, William
Sumner, William Graham
Sunday, Billy
Supreme Court, U.S.
Survey, The
Sweatshops
Swift, Gustavus Franklin
Swift and Company v. United States (1905)
Taft, William Howard
Taggart, Thomas
Tammany Hall
Tarbell, Ida Minerva
Tariff Reform
Tax Reform, State
Taylor, Frederick W.
Technology and Systematization (overview)
Telegraph
Telephone
Teller Amendment (1898)
Terman, Lewis M.
Terrell, Mary Church
Thomas, William Hannibal
Thorndike, Edward Lee
Thorpe, Jim “Bright Path”
Tiffany, Louis Comfort
Tillman, Benjamin R.
Tin Pan Alley
Titanic
Track and Field
Tramps
Trans-Mississippi and International Exposition (1898)
Transportation Act (1920)
Treaty of Portsmouth (1905)
Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire (1911)
Trotter, William Monroe
Tumulty, Joseph P.
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Turner, Henry McNeal
Tuskegee Institute
Twain, Mark
Tweed, William “Boss”
Underwood, Oscar Wilder
Uneeda Biscuit Company
Unemployment
Union Labor Party
Unions, Trade and Labor
United Fruit Company
United Mine Workers of America
United States v. American Tobacco Company (1911)
United States v. United States Steel Corporation (1920)
Urban League
Urbanization (overview)
U’Ren, William S.
Van Hise, Charles R.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius
Vardaman, James K.
Vaudeville
Veblen, Thorstein B.
Veiller, Lawrence Turnure
Villard, Oswald Garrison
Wages and Hours Legislation
Wagner, John Peter “Honus”
Wagner, Robert F.
Walker, Francis A.
Walker, Madam C. J.
Walker, Moses Fleetwood
Wallace, Henry Cantwell
Walsh, David Ignatius
Walsh, Francis P.
Wanamaker, John
War Industries Board, United States
Ward, Lester Frank
Warehouse Act (1916)
Warner, Charles Dudley
Washington, Booker T.
Watson, Thomas Edward
Weaver, James Baird
Webb-Kenyon Act (1913)
Webb-Pomerene Act (1918)
Weber, Adna Ferrin
Wells, David A.
Wells-Barnett, Ida Bell
Westinghouse, George
Weyerhauser, Frederick
Weyl, Walter Edward
Wharton, Edith
Wheeler, Burton K.
Whistler, James McNeill
White, Caroline Earle
White, Edward Douglass
White, Sue Shelton
White, William Allen
Whitlock, Brand
Whitman, Walt
Wiley, Harvey W.
Willard, Frances Elizabeth Caroline
Wilson v. New (1917)
Wilson, William Bauchop
Wilson, Woodrow
Wise, Stephen S.
Wister, Owen
Woman Suffrage
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Woman’s Peace Party
Women and Gender (overview)
Women’s Protective Legislation
Wood, Leonard
Woodcraft Indians
Woods, Robert Archey
Woodson, Carter G.
Working Girls’ Clubs
Workmen’s Compensation
World War I
Wounded Knee (1890)
Wright, Carroll Davidson
Wright, Frank Lloyd
Wright, Orville, and Wilbur Wright
Yellow Journalism
Yellow-Dog Contract
Yerkes, Charles Tyson
Young Men’s Christian Association
Young, Denton True “Cy”
Ziegfeld, Florenz, Jr.
Zionism
Primary Documents
Treaties and Foreign Policy Declarations
Invitation to Pan-American Conference (1881)
The Independence of Cuba (1898)
Annexation of Hawaii (1898)
William McKinley’s Message on the Philippines (1898)
Treaty of Peace with Spain (1898)
Senator Beveridge Advocates Imperialism (1899)
Open Door Policy (1899)
Platt Amendment (1902)
Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine (1904)
President Roosevelt’s Letter to Senator Henry Cabot Lodge on Japan (1905)
Root-Takahira Agreement (1908)
Gentlemen’s Agreement on Japanese Immigration (1908)
Report of the United States Commission on Immigration (1911)
President Taft Proclaims “Dollar Diplomacy” (1912)
President Wilson’s Mobile Pledge (1913)
President Wilson’s Special Message on Mexican Relations (1913)
President Wilson’s Panama Canal Tolls Message (1914)
President Wilson’s Appeal for Neutrality (1914)
Secretary of State Bryan’s Note on the Sinking of the Lusitania (1915)
American Occupation of Haiti (1916)
The Sussex Pledge (1916)
Zimmermann Note (1917)
President Wilson’s Peace Without Victory Speech (1917)
President Wilson Asks for Declaration of War (1917)
Senator Norris Opposes American Intervention in World War I (1917)
Lansing-Ishii Agreement (1917)
President Wilson’s Fourteen Points (1918)
Archangel Expedition Aide-Memoire (1918)
President Wilson Advocates the League of Nations (1919)
Senator Lodge Opposes the League of Nations (1919)
Political Statements
Speech of Senator Blanche K. Bruce to the U.S. Senate (1876)
President Chester A. Arthur’s Proclamation on Civil Service (1883)
William Jennings Bryan’s “Cross of Gold” Speech (1896)
President Theodore Roosevelt Advocates the Conservation of Natural Resources (1907)
Appeal of Seven Governors to Theodore Roosevelt (1912)
Roosevelt’s Response to Seven Governors (1912)
Theodore Roosevelt Proclaims the “New Nationalism” (1912)
Pujo Committee Report: Concentration of Control in Banking and Credit (1912)
First Inaugural Address of President Wilson (1913)
United States Commission on Industrial Relations: Concentration of Control in Industry (1915)
President Wilson’s Appeal to the Voters to Return a Democratic Congress (1918)
Warren G. Harding Proposes a Return to “Normalcy” (1920)
Political Party Platforms
Greenback Party (1884)
Anti-Monopoly Party (1884)
Prohibition Party (1884)
Union Labor Party (1888)
Socialist Labor Party (1892)
People’s Party Platform (1892)
Republican Party of Wisconsin Platform (1912)
Socialist Party Platform (1912)
Progressive Party Platform (1912)
Acts of Congress and Constitutional Amendments
Chinese Exclusion Act (1882)
Interstate Commerce Act (1887)
Dawes Severalty Act (1887)
Sherman Antitrust Act (1890)
United States Constitution, Article XIV (1913)
United States Constitution, Article XVII (1913)
Federal Trade Commission Act (1914)
Clayton Antitrust Act (1914)
Adamson Eight-Hour Act (1916)
Immigration Literacy Act (1917)
Espionage Act (1917)
Sedition Act (1918)
Railway Administration Act (1918)
Child Labor Act (1919)
Volstead Act (1919)
United States Constitution, Article XVIII (1919)
United States Constitution, Article XIX (1920)
Court Decisions
Munn v. Illinois (1877)
Civil Rights Cases (1883)
Ex parte Yarbrough (1884)
In re Jacobs (1885)
Pollock v. Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company (1895)
United States v. E.C. Knight Company (1895)
In re Debs (1895)
Plessy v. Ferguson (1896)
Northern Securities Company v. United States (1904)
Lochner v. New York (1905)
Adair v. United States (1908)
Muller v. Oregon (1908)
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey v. United States (1911)
Bunting v. Oregon (1917)
Wilson v. New (1917)
Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918)
Schenck v. United States (1919)
Abrams v. United States (1919)
Declarations and Principles of Organizations
Knights of Labor Platform (1878)
Eight-Hour Association Declaration of Principles (1886)
American Federation of Labor (1887)
American Economic Association Platform (1887)
Farmers’ Alliance Ocala Demands (1890)
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union “Do Everything” Policy (1893)
Anti-Imperialist League Platform (1899)
National Association of Manufacturers Declaration of Principles (1903)
National Association of Colored Women (1904)
National American Woman Suffrage Association Declaration of Principles (1904)
Niagara Movement Declaration of Principles (1905)
Industrial Workers of the World Manifesto (1905)
National Progressive Republican League Declaration of Principles (1911)
International Congress of Women Manifesto (1915)
