3.4: Questions
Paired Sources from U.S. History, 1877-present
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Abstract
How does Sullivan make the case for cities through explaining the origins of skyscrapers? Would most people have felt the need to make that case at all? Why or why not? Which audience do you think Buel’s text was aimed at? How can you tell from the text itself?
Contents
- 1.1: The Labor Question
- 1.2: Edward Atkinson: “The Service Which Capital Renders When Employed by Labor” (1886)
- 1.3: Wendell Phillips: “The Labor Question” Speech (1872)
- 1.4: Questions
- 2.1: Native Americans in the American West
- 2.2: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life Among the Piutes (1883)
- 2.3: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography (1913)
- 2.4: Questions
- 3.1: Urbanization: The Physical Form and Moral Condition of Cities
- 3.2: Louis Sullivan: The Autobiography of an Idea (1923)
- 3.3: James W. Buel: Mysteries and Miseries of America’s Great Cities (1883)
- 3.4: Questions
- 4.1: The Pure Food and Drug Act
- 4.2: Harvey Wiley: Letter to the Editor of the Wine Trade Review (1906)
- 4.3: Hiram Walker & Sons, Ltd.: “A Plot against the People” (1911)
- 4.4: Questions
- 5.1: The Dust Bowl
- 5.2: John Steinbeck: “Starvation under the Orange Trees” (1938)
- 5.3: Frank J. Taylor: “California’s Grapes of Wrath” (1939)
- 5.4: Questions
- 6.1: The New Deal and the Role of Government
- 6.2: Franklin D. Roosevelt: Second Inaugural Address (1937)
- 6.3: Charles I. Dawson: “The President Has Made the Issue” (1936)
- 6.4: Questions
- 7.1: Segregation in the North and South
- 7.2: W.E.B. Du Bois: “Segregation in the North” (1934)
- 7.3: Victor H. Green: The Negro Motorist “Green Book” (1940)
- 7.4: Questions
- 8.1: Anti-Communism
- 8.2: Chamber of Commerce of the United States: “Communist Infiltration in the United States: Its Nature and How to Combat It” (1946)
- 8.3: Ryland W. Crary and Gerald L. Steibel: “How You Can Teach About Communism” (1951)
- 8.4: Questions
- 9.1: The Modern Women’s Movement
- 9.2: Casey Hayden and Mary King: “Sex and Caste” (1965)
- 9.3: Betty Friedan: Commencement Speech to Smith College Graduates (1981)
- 9.4: Questions
- 10.1: The Generation Gap and the Vietnam War
- 10.2: Lyndon B. Johnson: “Peace without Conquest” Speech about Vietnam (7 April 1965)
- 10.3: Raymond Anthony Mungo: Anti-War Speech (1967)
- 10.4: Questions
- 11.1: The Gay Rights Movement
- 11.2: Anita Bryant Is Hit by a Pie (1977)
- 11.3: Harvey Milk: Gay Freedom Day Speech (1978)
- 11.4: Questions
- 12.1: Globalization and the North American Free Trade Agreement
- 12.2: 12.2 Ross Perot at the Third Presidential Debate (1992)
- 12.3: Bill Clinton: “Remarks on the Signing of NAFTA” (1993)
- 12.4: Questions