Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Growth of the Country -- Immigration -- Document: Emma Lazarus: "The New Colossus" (1886) -- Westward Migration -- Document: The Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) -- Document: William H. Seward: The Promise of Alaska (1869) -- Urban Growth -- Chapter 2: The West -- The Mineral Empire -- Document: Henry Eno: Silver in Nevada (1869) -- The Open Range -- The Expansion of the Railroads -- Indian Policy -- Document: Chief Joseph: The Disillusioned Indian (1879) -- Chapter 3: The Growth of Industry -- Document: Andrew Carnegie: The Picture Lover and Picture Buyer (1886) -- The Dispersion of Industry -- Industrial Combinations -- Foreign Commerce -- Document: Henry Demarest Lloyd: Monopoly and Social Control (1884) -- Chapter 4: Labour -- Formation of Unions -- Document: The Knights of Labor (1878) -- The Haymarket Riot -- Document: The Pullman Strike and Boycott (1894) -- Document: Samuel Gompers: The Laborer's Light to Life (1894) -- Chapter 5: National Politics -- Document: Woodrow Wilson: The Declining Prestige of the Presidential Office (1885) -- The Gilded Age -- Chapter 6: The Rutherford B. Hayes Administration -- Document: Rutherford B. Hayes: Wealth in the Hands of the Few (1886-87) -- Chapter 7: The Administrations of James A. Garfield and Chester A. Arthur -- Document: "Charles Guiteau" (1882) -- Chapter 8: Grover Cleveland's First Term -- The Surplus and the Tariff -- The Public Domain -- The Interstate Commerce Act -- The Election of 1888 -- Document: Grover Cleveland: Surplus Revenues and the Tariff (1887) -- Chapter 9: The Benjamin Harrison Administration -- The Sherman Anti-Trust Act -- The Silver Issue -- Document: The Sherman Anti-Trust Act (1890) -- The Mckinley Tariff -- The Agrarian Revolt -- The Populists.

Document: Hamilton Wicks: The Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) -- The Election of 1892 -- Document: William A. Peffer: The Rise of Farmer Organizations (1891) -- World's Columbian Exposition -- Chapter 10: From Cleveland to Economic Recovery -- Cleveland's Second Term -- Document: James Laurence Laughlin: Against Free Coinage of Silver (1895) -- Document: Jacob S. Coxey: Business Depression and Public Works (1894) -- The Election of 1896 -- Mark Hanna -- Economic Recovery -- Document: William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold (1896) -- Conclusion -- Appendices (Documents) -- Chinese Exclusion Act (1882) -- William H. Seward: The Promise of Alaska (1869) -- Henry Eno: Silver in Nevada (1869) -- Chief Joseph: The Disillusioned Indian (1879) -- Andrew Carnegie: The Picture Lover and the Picture Buyer (1886) -- Henry Demarest Lloyd: Monopoly and Social Control (1884) -- The Kights of Labor (1878) -- The Pullman Strike and Boycott -- I. Statement of the Strikers -- II. Statement of the Company -- Samuel Gompers: The Laborer's Right to Life (1894) -- Woodrow Wilson: The Declining Prestige of the Presidential Office (1885) -- Rutherford B. Hayes: Wealth in the Hands of the Few (1886-87) -- Grover Cleveland: Surplus Revenues and the Tariff (1887) -- The Sherman Antitrust Act (1890) -- Hamilton S. Wicks: The Oklahoma Land Rush (1889) -- William A. Peffer: The Rise of Farmer Organizations (1891) -- The Grange -- The Farmers' Alliance -- National Farmers' Alliance -- Farmers' Mutual Benefit Association -- The Cincinnati Conference -- James Laurence Laughlin: Against Free Coinage of Silver (1895) -- Jacob S. Coxey: Business Depression and Public Works (1894) -- The Bill…to Build Good Roads… -- The Noninterest Bearing Bond Bill… -- William Jennings Bryan: The Cross of Gold (1896) -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover.