Era+Six

= Era Six: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900)  =

The Transcontinental Railroad

Preamble to the Constitution of the Knights of Labor, 1878

Chief Joseph Speaks, 1870s

Testimony of Benjamin Singleton, Exoduster, 1880

Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor, 1881

The Assassination of President James Garfield, 1881

Emma Lazarus, “New Colossus,” 1883

Henry W. Grady, “New South,” 1886

The Dawes Act, 1887

“Women as Bread Winners,” 1887

Andrew Carnegie’s “Gospel of Wealth,” 1889

Frederick Jackson Turner, 1893

Richard Warren Sears, “Cheapest Supply House on Earth,” 1894

Booker T. Washington, “Atlanta Compromise,” 1895

Eugene V. Debs, “Outlook for Socialism in the United States,” 1900

Theodore Dreiser, Sister Carrie, 1900

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">William “Boss” Tweed and Tammany Hall

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 16px;">The Photographs of Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine