HIST 2154 - Minorities in US History (OER): Module 5: Industrialization & Urbanization, 1880-1920

Topic 1: Native American Voices in the Age of Industrialization & Urbanization

• School News Newspaper Vol. 1 No. 3: Carlisle Barracks, PA, 1880
• A Century of Dishonor, by Helen Hunt Jackson, 1889
• Turning Hawk & American Horse on the Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890/1891
• DPLA Document Set: The Wounded Knee Massacre, 1890
• Laura C. Kellogg on Indian Education, 1913
• Lutiant Van Wert describes the 1918 Flu Pandemic, 1918
• The School Days of an Indian Girl, 1921
• DPLA Document Set: American Indian Boarding Schools
   

Topic 2: African American Voices in the Age of Industrialization & Urbanization

• Dispatch from a Mississippi Colored Farmers' Alliance, 1889
• Primary Source: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. DuBois on Black Progress, 1895, 1903
• Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
• "The Black Man's Burden: A Response to Kipling," 1899
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” 1900
• Lynching from the Negro's Point of View, 1904
• “We Are Literally Slaves”: An Early Twentieth-Century Black Nanny Sets the Record Straight, 1912
• DPLA Document Set: Ida B. Wells & Anti-Lynching Activism
• DPLA Document Set: Blackface Minstrelsy in Modern America

Topic 3: Women’s Voices in the Age of Industrialization & Urbanization

• Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements,” 1892
• Ida B. Wells-Barnett, “Lynch Law in America,” 1900
• The New Womanhood, 1904
• “Alcohol as a Cause of Insanity” by Emma Truseau, ~1910s
• Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper,” 1913
• Christine Frederick, The New Housekeeping, 1913
• “If Men Were Seeking the Franchise,” 1913
• Suffrage On Stage: Marie Jenney Howe Parodies the Opposition, 1913
• Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage, 1917
• The School Days of an Indian Girl, 1921
• Document Set: Frances Willard Digitized Journals
• Document Set: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire 
• Document Set: The Athens Woman's Club and Social Reform, 1899-1920
• Library of Congress Document Set: Prohibition as a Case Study in Progressive Reform
• Library of Congress Document Set: Women's Suffrage in the Progressive Era 
• DPLA Document Set: The Beginnings of the American Red Cross
• DPLA Document Set: Settlement Houses
• DPLA Document Set: Ida B Wells & Anti-Lynching Activism

Topic 4: Latinx Voices in the Age of Industrialization & Urbanization

• Mexican and Japanese Laborers Form a Union, 1903
• A Newspaper Urges Mexican Immigrants to Join a Mutual-Aid Society, 1904
• Mexican Refugees Flee to Texas, 1914
• "Uncle Sam Chases Pancho Villa," 1916
• "The Americanese Wall, as Congressman Burnett Would Build It," 1916
• Employers Favor Increased Mexican Immigration, 1917
• A Mexican Immigrant Expresses Ambivalence about her New Life, 1920
• Mexican Immigrant Corridos
• A Mexican Migrant Reflects on his Experiences

Topic 5: Asian American Voices in the Age of Industrialization & Urbanization

• Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882
• Tape v. Hurley [Blog with Primary Source Excerpts], 1885
• Chinese Immigrants Confront Anti-Chinese Prejudice, 1885- 1903
• Rudyard Kipling, The White Man's Burden, 1899
• A Chinese Immigrant Makes His Home in Turn-of-the-Century America, 1902 - 1906
• Mexican and Japanese Laborers Form a Union, 1903
• White or Jap-Which (Anti-Jap Laundry League), 1908
• Angel Island Immigration Station Poetry, 1910 - 1940
• DPLA Document Set: Early Chinese Immigration to the US

Crash Course US History [CC-BY-SA]

• The Industrial Economy
• Westward Expansion
• Growth, Cities, and Immigration
• Gilded Age Politics
• The Progressive Era
• American Imperialism
• Progressive Presidents
• America in World War I
• Women's Suffrage

Crash Course Black American History [CC-BY-SA]

• Ida B. Wells
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois
• The Black Women's Club Movement
• The Great Migration

Khan Academy, [CC-BY-SA]

• Origins of Jim Crow
• Origins of Jim Crow: The Black Codes & Reconstruction
• Origins of Jim Crow: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments
• Origins of Jim Crow: Compromise of 1877 & Plessy v. Ferguson
• Plessy v. Ferguson
• Immigration & Migration in the Gilded Age

Black History in Two Minutes [Licensing/Use Statement]

• W.E.B. Dubois
• The Birth of a Nation and the NAACP
• Lynching
• The First African American to be Granted a Patent
• Jack Johnson: Winner of the 1910's "Fight of the Century"
• 19th Century Black Discoveries
• The Black Church
• Booker T. Washington
• Ida B. Wells
• Separate but Equal
• Madam C.J. Walker

Ted-Ed  [CC-BY-NC-ND]

• The Courageous Life of Ida B. Wells
• The Historic Women’s Suffrage March on Washington 
• The Dark History of the Chinese Exclusion Act

Other

• Suffrage in 60 Seconds: How Women Won the West [National Park Service, Public Domain]
• Dubois and Race Conflict [Crash Course Sociology, CC- BY]

The American Yawp Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• The American Yawp, Chapters 16
• The American Yawp, Chapters 17
• The American Yawp, Chapters 18
• The American Yawp, Chapters 19
• The American Yawp, Chapters 20

African American History Textbook [CC-BY-SA]

• African Americans and Jim Crow, pp. 191-205 

Teaching American Indian History through Primary Sources [NPS, Public Domain]

• Chapter 5: Indian Boarding Schools in the Age of Assimilation, 117-143

New World Encyclopedia [CC-BY-SA]

• Jim Crow Laws
• Women's Suffrage
• Wounded Knee, South Carolina
• Booker T. Washington
• W.E.B. Dubois
• Ida B. Wells Barnett
• Carter G. Woodson
• Madam C.J. Walker
• Jane Addams
• Settlement Movement
• Hull House
• Temperance Movement
• Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire
• Pancho Villa

The Conversation [CC-BY-ND]

• After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed
• Crazy Horse: leader, warrior, martyr … artist?
• The long history of US racism against Asian Americans, from ‘yellow peril’ to ‘model minority’ to the ‘Chinese virus’
• Proposed 1920s orphanage study just one example in history of scientific racism
• Deaf women fought for the right to vote

Other

• Library of Congress: Timeline of the Progressive Era
• Library of Congress: Progressive Era Overview

• Online
• Face to Face

• Concept Knowledge Self Assessment (Pre/Post)
• Discussion Options
• Study Guide

Stanford History Education Group (SHEG)
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• Carlise Indian Industrial School
• Chinese Immigration and Exclusion
• Booker T. Washington & W.E.B. Dubois
• Japanese Segregation in San Francisco
• Edward Curtis
• Anti-Suffragists
• Marcus Garvey
• Great Migration

National Archives: Docs Teach [Public Domain] 

• African American Soldiers and Civil Rights During WWI
• Assimilation and the Native People of Metlakahtla, Alaska
• Before and After Carlise School
• Chinese Exclusion Broadside Analysis
• Woman Suffrage and the 19th Amendment
• Maps of Indian Territory, the Dawes Act, and Will Rogers's Enrollment Case File
• Affidavit and Flyers from the Chinese Boycott Case

Other

• Two American Entrepreneurs: Madam C.J. Walker and J.C. Penney  [National Park Service, Public Domain]
• Exploring the Stories Behind Native American Boarding Schools [Library of Congress, Public Domain]

Native American Voices 

• What is meant the phrase “Age of Assimilation” with respect to Native Americans between 1880 and 1920? What strategies did the US government use to attempt to force assimilation on indigenous tribes after the end of the “Indian Wars” of the 1870s? 

• What was the impact of the Dawes (Allotment) Act tribal culture? 

• What was the purpose of “Indian Boarding Schools?”  

African American Voices 

• What is meant by the phrase “Jim Crow Laws.” How & why did they develop? (Be sure to consider the role of Reconstructions, the Black Codes, and Plessy v. Ferguson when answering this question.) How did they govern the lives of African Americans in the American South?  

• Compare and contrast the civil rights activism of Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. Dubois. 

• Describe the work/activism of Ida B. Wells. 

• What factors led to the Great Migration beginning in 1916? 

Women’s Voices 

• What role did women play in the reform movements of the Progressive era? 

• What were the most important reasons that advocates gave for women’s suffrage (in other words, why did they think that women deserved the right to vote)? How did opponents of women’s suffrage react? 

 
Latinx American Voices 

• How did the Mexican Revolution contribute to increased Mexican immigration to the United States? 

• What kinds of discrimination did Mexican immigrants face in the United States? 

Asian American Voices 

• According to these documents, what kinds of discrimination did Asian immigrants face in the United States between 1880 and 1920? 

• What was the Chinese Exclusion Act? How did it pass? How is it an example of “nativism?” 

• What groups were most likely to support the Chinese Exclusion Act? Why? What groups were most likely to oppose the Act? Why?