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“The Grapes
of Wrath”
1940
HAVES AND HAVE-NOTS
Income inequality in the United States
“The Gilded Age”
The Breakers, a Gilded Age mansion in
Newport, Rhode IslandThe Gilded Age: A Tale of Today is a novel by Mark
Twain and Charles Dudley Warner first
published in 1873. It satirizes greed and
political corruption in post–Civil War America.
Book cover for first
edition of "The
Gilded Age" (1873)
American Experience, PBS The Gilded Age, Chapter 1
The Muckrakers
McClure's (cover, January
1901) published many
early muckraker articles
Lincoln Steffens,
American muckraking
journalist
"In a country where business is dominant,
business men must and will corrupt a
government.“
"One business man’s bribery was nothing
but a crime, but a succession of business
briberies over the years was a corruption
of government to make it represent
business.“
"I have never heard Christianity, as Jesus
taught it in the New Testament, preached to
the Christians."
Upton Sinclair Ida Tarbell
Nellie Bly
Louis Brandeis
Associate justice on the Supreme
Court of the United States from
1916 to 1939.
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt, PBS Video
Trust-busting
Sherman
Anti-trust
Act
"Try your strength, gents!"
This 1912 cartoon shows trusts smashing consumers
with the tariff hammer in hopes of raising profits.
The Square Deal
Theodore Roosevelt and J.P Morgan
World War I and the labor unions
Samuel
Gompers
The Chinese Exclusion Act
The Chinese Exclusion Act of May 6, 1882,
prohibited all immigration of Chinese laborers.
Building on the xenophobic 1875 Page Act,
which banned Chinese women from
immigrating to the United States, the Chinese
Exclusion Act was the first law implemented to
prevent all members of a specific ethnic or
national group from immigrating.
It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on
December 17, 1943, which allowed 105
Chinese to enter per year.
Chinese immigration later increased with the
passage of the Immigration and Nationality Act
of 1952, which abolished direct racial barriers,
and later by Immigration and Nationality Act of
1965, which abolished the National Origins
Formula.[1]
The Roaring Twenties
Politics in the 1920s
http://www.trunity.net/discoveringamerica/topics/view/51cbfc9df702fc2ba812faef/
Decline of labor unions
Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge
Railroad Shopmen walking off the job in the
July 1922 Railway Strike
Great Railroad Strike of 1922
G.W.W. Hanger, R.M. Barton, and
Chairman Ben W. Hooper of the
Railroad Labor Board
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome around the time of the scandal,
featuring Teapot Rock (from postcard ca. 1922)
Albert B. Fall was
the first U.S.
cabinet official
sentenced to
prison
Herbert Hoover
Hoover Tower at Stanford
The Great Depression
People outside a closed bank after 1929 stock market crash
Approaching dust storm near Stratford, Texas. April, 18 1935
The “Dust Bowl”
Will Rogers
Huts and unemployed men in
New York City, 1935
https://mayleengrace.weebly.com/hoovervilles.html
Hoovervilles
Was Hoover responsible for the
Great Depression?
Hoover and the Great Depression, Prager University
The election of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
Outgoing president Herbert Hoover
and Roosevelt on Inauguration Day,
1933
FDR introduces the New Deal
The war-time economy
Impact of World War II on the U.S. Economy
and Workforce | Iowa's WWII Stories
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
The US economy after World War II
The Fabulous Fifties
“New Deal” years
Dwight D.
Eisenhower.
The start of the Interstate Highway System
Eisenhower and the “military –industrial complex”
From
Eisenhower’s
final speech as
President
The Savings and Loan crisis
Reasons for the Savings and Loan Crisis
Alan Cranston
Dennis
DeConciniJohn Glenn John McCain
Donald Riegle
The Keating Five
Charles Keating
The Recession of 2008
Commentary on the Great Recession
The rise of income inequality The gap between rich and poor is now greater
in America than in the Russian Federation.
The Rich Get Richer
THE Gap between top and bottom wage earners continues to widen
The Trump Tax Reform Bill
Our current economic situation
Wealth
differential
compared
across
nations
Trump Engaged in Suspect Tax Schemesas He Reaped Riches From His Father, NYTimes, 10-2-18
Next week:
Foreign entanglements: World War 1,
World War II,
The Korean War, the War in Vietnam,
The War in Iraq,
And next . . .?
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