Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
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Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
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Abstract
The American Anti-Imperialist League was founded in 1899, in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War. The war was launched with the dual purpose of stopping the (alleged) abuse of Cubans by the Spanish army and seeking revenge for the destruction of the American battleship USS Maine, which exploded in Havana harbor in February of 1898. At the conclusion of the war the United States had occupied the Caribbean islands of Puerto Rico and Cuba, the island of Guam in the central Pacific, and the Philippine chain of islands in the western Pacific. The Philippines, Guam, and Puerto Rico became American territories—essentially American colonies.
Contents
- Chapter 1: “Let us have liberty, law, and justice”: Reconstruction, Post–Reconstruction, and the Jim Crow South
- Reconstruction Amendments
- Joseph R. Johnson: Letter from a Northern Teacher to the Freedmen’s Bureau Commissioner
- Jourdon Anderson: Letter “To My Old Master”
- Sharecropper Contract
- Black Code of Mississippi
- Thaddeus Stevens: “Reconstruction” Speech
- “Information Wanted” Advertisements
- Thomas Nast: “Worse than Slavery”
- “The First South Carolina Legislature during Radical Reconstruction”
- Frederick Douglass: “On Remembering the Civil War” Speech
- Henry Grady: “New South” Speech
- Ida B. Wells: Southern Horrors
- Booker T. Washington: Atlanta Exposition Address
- Plessy v. Ferguson
- Jim Crow Laws
- W. E. B. Du Bois: The Souls of Black Folk
- Chapter 2: “Here in the shop the machines roar so wildly”: Industrialization, Immigration, and Labor in the City
- National Quarantine Act
- James Albert Wales: “Where Both Platforms Agree”
- Thomas Edison: Patent No. 223,898 for the Light Bulb
- Chinese Exclusion Act
- Bernhard Gillam: “The Protectors of Our Industries”
- Haymarket Affair Announcement
- Lucy Parsons: “I Am an Anarchist” Speech
- T. Thomas Fortune: “The Present Relations of Labor and Capital”
- Interstate Commerce Act
- Leonora Barry: Report for the Knights of Labor
- Nellie Bly: Ten Days in a Mad-House
- Andrew Carnegie: “Wealth”
- Jacob Riis: How the Other Half Lives
- Sherman Antitrust Act
- Bettie Gay: “The Influence of Women in the Alliance”
- Jane Addams: “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements”
- Frances Willard: Address before the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
- Samuel Gompers: Editorial on the Pullman Strike
- “The Sandow Trocadero Vaudevilles”
- Eugene V. Debs: “Liberty” Speech
- “What God Freely Gives to Man, Monopoly Appropriates”
- “The ‘Dayton’ 1896”
- William Jennings Bryan: “Cross of Gold” Speech
- Morris Rosenfeld: “In the Factory”
- Thorstein Veblen: “Conspicuous Consumption”
- Horace Taylor: “What a Funny Little Government”
- Theodore Dreiser: Sister Carrie
- “What the Bottle Does: One Year’s Work”
- Eugene V. Debs: “How I Became a Socialist”
- John Mitchell: Organized Labor
- Emma Goldman: “A New Declaration of Independence”
- Anzia Yezierska: Bread Givers
- Chapter 3: “To sign away my country”: Westward Expansion and Imperialism
- Homestead Act
- John Gast: American Progress
- Chief Joseph: “An Indian’s View of Indian Affairs”
- John Nicholas Choate: “Before and After”
- Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins: Life among the Piutes
- “Wounded Knee Massacre”
- Richard H. Pratt: “Kill the Indian, and Save the Man” Speech
- Clara Barton: The Red Cross in Peace and War
- Victor Gillam: “Remember the Maine! And Don’t Forget the Starving Cubans!”
- Louis Dalrymple: “School Begins”
- Platform of the Anti-Imperialist League
- Emil Flohri: “And, After All, the Philippines Are Only the Stepping-Stone to China”
- Charles Eastman: From the Deep Woods of Civilization
- Zitkala-Ša: “The Cutting of My Long Hair”
- Chapter 4: “The strong arm of the government”: The Progressive Era
- Theodore Roosevelt: Statements Pertaining to Conservation
- Florence Kelley: “The Child Breadwinner and the Dependent Parent”
- Upton Sinclair: The Jungle
- Jack London: “The Story of an Eyewitness”
- Pure Food and Drug Act
- Theodore Roosevelt: Special Message to Congress on Worker’s Compensation
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “One of the Spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co., North Carolina”
- Lewis Wickes Hine: “Sadie Pfeifer, a Cotton Mill Spinner, Lancaster, South Carolina”
- Clara Lemlich: “Life in the Shop”
- Ida B. Wells: “Lynching: Our National Crime”
- Jane Addams: “Why Women Should Vote”
- Shirtwaist Advertisement
- “Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire”
- Progressive Party Platform
- Jane Addams: “Who Is to Blame for Child Labor?”
- World War I Propaganda Poster for Victory Gardens
- Margaret Sanger: “Birth Control and Racial Betterment”
- W. E. B. Du Bois: “Jesus Christ in Texas”