THE INDUSTRIAL ERA

Topics include Andrew Carnegie, the transcontinental railroad, Chinese immigrants, the spread of railroads, range wars, prairie settlers, the Populists, Custer and Little Big Horn, Chief Joseph and the Nez Perce, the Dawes Act, sharecropping, Booker T. Washington and the Tuskegee Institute, J.P. Morgan, tenements, Jacob Riis, Samuel Gompers and the AFL, labor unions, railroad strikes, and Eugene Debs and the American Railway Union.