Erin Collins's Public Lists

In the nineteenth century, many free African Americans left the South and migrated to the northern states in search of a better life. They helped establish the foundations of the black urban North.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 17, 09

The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

Caribbean immigration increased dramatically in the early 1900s.

Created: Dec 14, 09 Modified: Dec 14, 09

Children worked in the factories at the turn of the century.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

Gold Mountain Stories: Immigrants from China pass through Angel Island to settle on the West Coast.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

Physicians and scientists make a “scientific” case for racist beliefs in the 1800s.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

Immigrants from Southern and Eastern Europe came to the East Coast. For many, this meant tenement life in the Lower East Side in New York.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

The KKK: An extremest group that promoted violence against non-protestants, blacks, Jews and immigrants.

Created: Dec 11, 09 Modified: Dec 17, 09

Sources about immigration from Mexico.

Created: Dec 14, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

In the Progressive Era, journalists began to take on the inequalities created during the Gilded Age.

Created: Dec 11, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

Native Americans were living in two worlds during the Gilded Age and Progressive Era.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 15, 09

Policy of favoring of the interests of long-standing inhabitants of an area over those of newcomers. Common in 19th century U.S. when the Know-Nothing Movement and others opposed the granting of civil rights to immigrants. Nativism is not associated with Native-Americans.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

Newsboy strikes: Child laborers strike on the streets of New York City in 1899!

Created: Dec 11, 09 Modified: Dec 11, 09

Photography emerged as an art form at this time.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

The railroad transformed life in the United States.

Created: Dec 11, 09 Modified: Dec 17, 09

Social Darwinists applied ideas of evolution to society in order to explain why the rich were rich and the poor were poor. Progressives challenged this during the Progressive era.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

This political movement appealed to those who wanted more equality.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

Websites about the establishment of the Standard Oil Company and the biographies of Rockefeller and Ida Tarbell.

Created: Dec 11, 09 Modified: Dec 13, 09

This fire was one of the worst natural disasters of the 19th century in the United States, but it also gave birth to rebuilding the Chicago into a metropolis.

Created: Dec 13, 09 Modified: Dec 16, 09