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6) The 1900s
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Discusses the decade 1900-1909 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics.
7) The 1910s
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Discusses the decade 1910-1919 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics.
9) The promise
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1900. Young pianist Catherine Wainwright flees the fashionable town of Dayton, Ohio in the wake of a terrible scandal. Heartbroken and facing destitution, she finds herself striking up correspondence with a childhood admirer, the recently widowed Oscar Williams. In desperation she agrees to marry him. But when Catherine travels to Oscar's farm on Galveston Island, Texas - a thousand miles from home - she finds she is little prepared for the life that...
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"To follow her dreams, she must sacrifice everything. Sisters Nora and Delia have been given the chance of a lifetime - to escape their poor Irish farm and travel on the Titanic to a new life in America. Delia is to become a treasured governess for a rich family, while Nora has only a lowly maid's position. But when disaster strikes, and Delia dies, a small misunderstanding leads to Nora taking Delia's place as governess. As Nora grows closer to her...
14) The Gilded Age
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Explores the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth-century Gilded Age when America evolved from rural, farming communities to an urban, industrial society and describes the rise of the "robber barons" and their positive and negative influence on American finance. Examines the discrepancy between the very wealthy and the poor working-class people, discusses the political, social, and economic reforms that were achieved, exposes the corporate greed and...
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Learn about reformers' efforts to address the miserable living and working conditions of industrial workers, and new labor laws that followed the galvanizing events of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire and the Bread and Roses Strike. Also study the movements to eradicate child labor and to federally regulate food and medicines.
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Travel into the world of American workers, and view the poignant social problems that accompanied industrialization. Learn how technological changes in industry affected living conditions for workers, and follow the rise of labor movements, violent strikes, and intense conflict between labor unions and management.