“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It was repealed by the Magnuson Act on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,

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