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At the Triangle Shirtwaist Company, Americans learned how:

Identity as defined for the purposes of this class is:

U.S. school children learn that World War I started when Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated in 1914, triggering a series of interconnected treaties. But in this course, we went back further, to: 

A national market refers to:

T/F (True/False): All historians believe the U.S. government fairly honored treaties with Native-Americans, who were confined to “reservations” in the least-desirable lands. They also now believe American leaders also treated Chinese immigrants, who largely built the nation’s railroads especially warmly.

T/F: According to an class lecture, U.S. newspapers sometimes shift racial references depending upon whom national policy supports. For example, Cubans are referred to as lighter-skinned during friendlier times, and “brown” when it is less so. 

During the 1870s, most Americans turned their attention to another transformation brought on by the Civil War: The Industrial Revolution, which is:

Asia, Samoa, Alaska and Hawaii each:  

The major importance of the novel, The Jungle, in the Progressive Era, is: 

The so-called yellow-dog contract and blacklist were tools used by: