The Emergence of Urban America

William Magear "Boss" Tweed

Assignment:

Henretta: Chapter 19:

Gates' Notes

Study Guide

Primary Sources

• Burlingame-Seward Treaty of 1868

• Chinese Exclusion Act of 1888

• Chinese Stereotyping - From How the Other Half Lives (1890)

• A Typical East-Side Block 1890 - 1902

• Tom Watson and Anthony Wilson at Sparta, Georgia (1892)

• Richard Croker on Tammany Hall

• Banner of the People's Party Paper (1892)

• Ray Stannard Baker: Hull House and the Ward Boss (1898)

• The Evolution of the Tenement (1902)

• Photo: Riverside Tenements in Brooklyn (1902)

• Photo:  Dens of Death

• Lee Chew: The Biography of a Chinaman (1903)

• Portrait of Lee Chew

• Jane Addams: First Days at Hull House

• Photo: Tenement Room (1913)

• Tenement Street Scene (1913)

• Jane Addams: The Selective Necessity For Social Settlements

• Jacob Riis: The Jews of New York

• Lincoln Steffens: The Shame of the Cities (Excerpt)

• Working for the Triangle Shirtwaist Company

• The World's Account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire

• Two New York Firemen Testify about the Triangle Shirt Waist Fire

• Gender Bender: Mary Masquerades as Murray

• Our Misery and Despair: Kearney Blasts Chinese Immigration

• "I Seen My Opportunities and I took 'em" - An Old-Time Pol Preaches Honest Graft

• Plunkitt's Plain Talk: Satirizing Steffens

• A Christlike Character: A Catholic Priest Champions Henry George

• "Let Us Prey" - Thomas Nast Cartoon 

• Thomas Nast - "The New Board of Education

• Thomas Nast - In Counting There is Strength

• Thomas Nast - The "Brains" of Tammany Hall

• Thomas Nast - Tweed -le-dee and Tilden-dum

• Thomas Nast - The Tammany Tiger in the Arena

• Walter Rauschenbusch - Christianity and the Social Crisis

• Herbert Spencer: Progress: It's Law and Cause

• Herbert Spencer:  First Principles

• William Graham Sumner: The Challenge of Facts

• Mark Twain: Concerning the Jews (Harper's Magazine)

• California Anti-Coolie Act of 1862

• Russell H.  Conwell: Acres of Diamonds

• Cartoon: "The Immigrant: A Stranger at the Gate"

• Ram's Horn Anti-Immigration Cartoon (1896)

• Ram's Horn Cartoon: "Why Our Cities are Badly Governed"

• Ram's Horn Cartoon: "The Insanity of Greed"

• Immigration Act of 1906

• A Clear and Present Danger - The Chinese Exclusion Act

Web Links

• Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment: 1870 - 1920

• Dime Novels and Penny Dreadfuls - Stanford University Collection

• Pluralism and Unity

• The Phineas Taylor Barnum Museum

• The Thomas Nast Homepage

• William Magear Tweed

• Buffalo Bill Wild West Show

• U.S. Immigration - 1820 - 1970

• Graph: U.S. Immigration 1900 - 1990

• Ship Lists of Irish Immigrants

• The Ram's Horn: An Interdenominational Social Gospel Machine

• Ernest Crosby: Garrison the NonResistant

• Herbert S. Bigelow: The Religion of Revolution

• Salvation Army International Heritage Centre