Civil War, 19th century America
After the conclusion of the Civil War, 19th century America was still a country divided by race, place, gender, and class. You must include all race, place, gender and class aspects. Using at least one sample from each Roediger’s Wages of Whiteness, Erik Larsen’s The Devil in the White City, Twain’s The Gilded Age, and other samples from other readings to date, please develop an essay with an original thesis statement explaining how and why these divisions were perpetuated. direct quotes from the texts, no more than two lines each quotes. Inline parenthetical format.Thank you.
Roediger’s Wages of Whiteness,see pdf
Erik Larsen’sThe Devil in the White Cityseepdf
Twain’s The Gilded Age
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/3178/3178-h/3178-h.htm
And more reading
Frederick Jackson Turner, “The Significance of the Frontier in American History, 1893”: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1893turner.html
Charles Eastman, From the Deep Woods to Civilization, see pdf
Andrew Jackson on Indian Removal: http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/resources/archives/two/removal.htm
“Our Hearts Are Sickened”: Letter from Chief Ross of the Cherokee, 1836:
http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6598/
Lowell Workers Go On Strike: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5714
Nancy Cott, The Bonds of Womanhood, Chapter 1,Chapter 2 Chapters 4, 5, & Conclusion
https://books.google.com/books?id=cTS06idhnYQC&pg=PA63&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Declaration of Seneca Falls:
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/senecafalls.html
Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a
Woman?:” http://www.feminist.com/resources/artspeech/genwom/sojour.htm
Marc Reinhardt, Who Speaks for Margaret Garner? Intro and Chapters 1, 2, &3 Chapter. 9
https://books.google.com/books?id=F9U5Tspgmh0C&pg=PA47&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Drew Gilpin Faust, This Republic of Suffering, Chapters 1, 2, & 3
https://books.google.com/books?id=0Ng-hNXC1P0C&pg=PA3&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=4#v=onepage&q&f=false
Drew Faust, This Republic of Suffering, Chapters 7, 8 and Epilogue
Ida B. Wells, http://courses.washington.edu/spcmu/speeches/idabwells.htm
Ku Klux Klan Violence in Georgia: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6225
Andrew Carnegie, “The Gospel of Wealth”: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1889carnegie.html
The Working Man’s Ten Commandments: http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5747/
Mark Twain, The Gilded Age see pdf
Roediger, Wages of Whiteness, Chapter 8
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Thesis Statement( usually the last sentence(s) in the introduction):
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III. Conclusion( reworded Thesis( usually found near the beginning of the conclusion))