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The Gilded Age

 
 

 

Immigration and Labor
The Pacific Railway Act (1862)
Immigration to Fill a Labor Shortage (1864)
Thomas Jones: A Ten Hour Day for Miners (1864)
'Pat Works on the Railway'

Anti-immigration

Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Unguarded Gates (1885)
Chinese Exclusion Acts (1880-82)

The Plight of the Immigrant
Antanas Kaztauskis: Story of a Lithuanian
Sadie Frowne: Story of a Polish Sweatshop Girl
Rocco Corrersca ("Joe"): Story of an Italian Bootblack
Story of a Japanese Servant
Frank Roney: An Irish Laborer Confronts Hardship in San Francisco (1875-1876)
Ballad of the Landlord

Political Machines
Boss Richard Croker Defends Tarnmany Hall (1892)
Lord Bryce on Rings and Bosses (1895)
The Lexow Commission on Criminal and Political Corruption in New York City (1895)
Frederick Martin Townsend: The Bradley Martin Ball (1897)

Populism
Letters from Six Farm Men and Women

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