A really cool link that sums it up: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2268064/From-kings-American-plains-piles-sun-bleached-bones-How-mass-slaughter-hunters-nearly-wiped-buffalo.html
Links for Industrialization and Urbanization
Bobbin boys and other child laborers: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbin_boy
Cartoon about child labor:
Child labor devours its victim
The Great Chicago Fire and its impact: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1854.html
Jane Addams and Hull House: http://www.hullhouse.org/aboutus/history.html
Grace Hill Settlement House in St. Louis: http://www.gracehill.org/content/history.php
The Carnegie Corporation: http://carnegie.org/ Hold your pointer over the programs menu to see all the different aims of this 100 year old philanthropic foundation.
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The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange
Ideas and Movements, The Patrons of Husbandry
Oliver Hudson Kelley was an employee of the Department of Agriculture in the 1860s. He made an official trip through the South and was astounded by the lack of sound agricultural practices he encountered. Joining with other interested individuals in 1867, Kelley formed the National Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, a fraternal organization complete with its own secret rituals. Local affiliates were known as “granges” and the members as “grangers.” In its early years, the Grange was devoted to educational events and social gatherings. Continue reading
Filed under Ch24, Ch26, Western Settlement
Who were the Big Four?
The men responsible for helping to construct the first transcontinental railroad.
Go here for a good informative paragraph. (http://www.csrmf.org/doc.asp?id=279)
Filed under Ch24, Gilded Age
Thomas Nast on Tammany Hall
Links for more information:
Thomas Nast biography
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Overview of Grant’s Administration
From the White House site. These are really good reviews for semester finals and AP exams, as well, and I will be using several this chapter given that there are so many presidents discussed.
Here is the one for Ulysses Grant, the first president discussed in Chapter 23:http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/ulyssessgrant
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Overview of the Administration of Rutherford Hayes
From the White House site. These are really good reviews for semester finals and AP exams, as well, and I will be using several this chapter given that there are so many presidents discussed.
Here is the one for Rutherford B. Hayes, the second president discussed in chapter 23: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/rutherfordbhayes
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Overview of the Administration of James Garfield
From the White House site. These are really good reviews for semester finals and AP exams, as well, and I will be using several this chapter given that there are so many presidents discussed.
Here is the one for James Garfield, the third president discussed in chapter 23. Even though his administration was rather short due to his assassination by Charles Guiteau: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/jamesgarfield
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Overview of the Administration of Chester Arthur
From the White House site. These are really good reviews for semester finals and AP exams, as well, and I will be using several this chapter given that there are so many presidents discussed.
Here is the one for Chester Arthur, the fourth president mentioned in chapter 23 (who took over after Garfield was assassinated: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/chesterarthur
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Overview of the Administration of Grover Cleveland (part 1 and 2)
From the White House site. These are really good reviews for semester finals and AP exams, as well, and I will be using several this chapter given that there are so many presidents discussed.
Here is the one for Grover Cleveland, who was both the fifth and seventh president to be discussed in chapter 23.
Here is the link for his first administration: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/grovercleveland22
Here is the link for his second term in office: http://www.whitehouse.gov/about/presidents/grovercleveland24
Filed under Ch23, Gilded Age, Presidency
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