UNITED STATES HISTORY AND THE CONSTITUTION
A political cartoon showing four women driving a steam roller of progress from the West as they crush the opposition. The cartoon, which portrays woman suffrage as inevitable, appeared in Judge magazine in 1917. Image colorized for exhibit. (Library of Congress)
The student will demonstrate an understanding of the industrial development and the consequences of that development on society and politics during the second half of the nineteenth and the early twentieth centuries.
Enduring Understanding
Political democracy depends upon the active participation of individuals working through political and economic-interest groups to protect their welfare. To understand how groups in the past have protected their rights, the student will utilize the following primary sources:
Andrew Carnegie Wealth June 1889
Excerpt from Coin Harvey Coin Financial School 1894
Grover Cleveland Repeal Silver Purchase Act 1893
Henry Demarest Lloyd Wealth against Commonwealth 1894
Populist Party Platform July 4 1892
Resolutions of a meeting of the Illinois State Farmers
Samuel Gompers Labor in Industrial Society 1894
The Sherman Antitrust Act 1890
William Graham Sumner Absurd Effort to Make the World Over 1894