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The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Topic: MemoryTopic: ProgressTopic: PeopleTopic: PowerTopic: Empire
Topic: Power: Taming the Octopus
Toolbox Overview: The Gilded and the Gritty: America, 1870-1912
Resource Menu: Power
Text 1. Images of the Octopus, five cartoons
Text 2. Standard Oil
Text 3. The Octopus in the West
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Text 4. The Populist Party Platform [Omaha Platform]
Text 5. The Pullman Strike
Text 6. Jack London, South of the Slot
Text 7. The Boss and the Reformer
Text 8. Images of Big City Politics
Text 9. Social Policy: Social Darwinism vs. the Social Gospel
Text 10. Theodore Roosevelt, The New Nationalism
Text 11. African American Strategies
Text 12. Women and Power

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3.  The Octopus in the West
- Frank Bellew, The American Frankenstein, cartoon, New York Daily Graphic, 14 April 1874
- Frank Norris, The Octopus, novel, 1901, excerpts (PDF)

    Map, So. Pacific R.R., 1896
Map, So. Pacific R.R., 1896 (detail)
 
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Length: 17 pages

Online Sources Frankenstein: History Matters, from George Mason University and The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY)

Octopus: National Humanities Center


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