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Toolbox LibraryTrainingThe Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Topic: MemoryTopic: ProgressTopic: PeopleTopic: PowerTopic: Empire
Topic: Empire: Manifest Destiny and Beyond
Toolbox Overview: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Resource Menu: Empire
Text 1. The American Metropolis
Text 2. Coney Island
Text 3. Horatio Alger, Jr., Ragged Dick
Text 4. Lewis W. Hine photographs
Text 5. Jacob Riis, How the Other Lives
Text 6. Anzia Yezierska, Russians
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Text 7. Two Wives
Text 8. Lee Chew, The Biography of a Chinaman
Text 9. Exclusion
Text 10. Zitkala-Sa, Native Americans
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6.  Theodore Roosevelt, "The Strenuous Life," address, 10 April 1899

    Theodore Roosevelt, 1903
Roosevelt, 1903
  
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Length: 6 pages
Online Source History Tools.org: Resources for the Study of American History, from Dr. David Voelker, Asst. Professor of Humanities and History, University of Wisconsin —Green Bay
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