I) Integration and Segmentation
Integration and Segmentation
National Integration
Examples and reasons
mail and telegraph
common habits and consumer goods
mobility
Erosion of local communities
Nationalization of work and social life
The Jim Crow South
White actions
increasing de facto and de jure segregation
lynching and other anti-black violence
African American reaction
resistance vs. acquiescence
Booker T. Washington
W. E. B. Du Bois
Supreme Court upholds segregation
Reforming Native Americans
The "Peace Policy"
stress on civilization and Christianization
upsurge in war on the Great Plains
destruction of the buffalo
Assimilation Policy
elements of the policy
benefits settlers and railroad corporations more than Indians
Emerging belief in the biological inferiority of Indians leads to second-class citizenship
Strangers in the Land
Mixed reaction of native-born Americans to immigrants
Hostility directed toward non-European immigrants
Chinese
Japanese
Mexicans
Nativism directed at European immigrants
fear of radicals and union organizers
anti-Catholicism
fear of "race suicide" and the eugenics movement
Life on the Farm
Changes
New markets
Technological innovations reduce drudgery, increase productivity
More contact with urban world
Mail-order catalogs change consumption patterns
Continuities
Seasonal rhythms
Gendered division of labor
Regional Variations
Great Plains
The South
Migration to Cities
Push factors
Pull factors
The Rise of the City
An Urban Society
Explosive growth of cities
Types of cities
metropolises
"specialist" cities
Cities and Technology
New modes of transportation
horse-drawn streetcars
elevated trains
cable cars
electrified streetcars
subways
Bridges
The "balloon frame" house
Streetcar suburbs
The Immigrant City
Living conditions in ethnic neighborhoods
overcrowding
disease
unsteady, low-wage work
Social life
community-wide organizations
men and saloons
women
children
The City of Lights
Downtowns
skyscrapers
department stores
Improvements in physical infrastructure
electric lighting
paved streets
water and sewer lines
Public Health and the City of Disease
Infectious diseases and death rates
"Anticontagionists"
Scientific medicine
Women in Industrial Society
Education
More women attend high school and college
Reasons
Work
Rise in participation in paid labor force
Reasons
Cultural resistance
Family
Declining fertility rates
Tighter abortion and birth control laws
Impact of new household technologies
The New Woman
Clubs and associations
Women’s Christian Temperance Union
The World Viewed
Education
Public schools
Kindergartens
Universities
Science and Society
Charles Darwin’s
Origin of Species
challenge to religious views of the world
model of an empirical approach to knowledge
Social Darwinism and its critics
Herbert Spencer
William Graham Sumner
Frank Lester Ward
Intellectual approaches to industrialization and political unrest
Debates over gender and racial inequality
Religion
A potent force
The challenge of Darwinism
Protestant conservatives vs. modernists
Reform Jewish reaction
Christian Scientists
The challenge of industrial capitalism
Gospel of Wealth
Social Gospel
Jewish and Catholic reactions
Law, Philosophy, Art
Oliver Wendell Holmes and the law
Pragmatic philosophers:William James and John Dewey
Realism in art and literature
The emergence of cultural hierarchy