History Reconstruction era

The years between 1865 and 1920 witnessed the beginning of a modern America poised to take its place upon the world stage. Great fortunes arose amidst tremendous poverty, and what many experienced as the liberation of a new industrial economy looked to others to be a constriction of deeply-held beliefs about the labor, independence, and freedom in a nation built upon agrarian and craft ideals.  Trace the increasing organization of institutions in these years, paying attention to such potential examples as the federal government’s experiments during Reconstruction, the business innovations of the Gilded Age, the farmers’ revolt in Populism, Progressivism’s new vision of governance, and the struggle over constitutional rights in the period of Jim Crow and women’s suffrage. What solutions did reformers suggest to ameliorate the changes wrought by industrialization, and how successful were they in implementing their reforms? Potential IDs to use in the essay. John Rockefeller                                            Fourteen Points Freedmen’s Bureau                                        Andrew Johnson 14th Amendment                                            Booker T. Washington American Federation of Labor                      Eugene Debs The Jungle The Souls of Black Folk                                  New Nationalism Lusitania                                                       Emilio Aguinaldo Elizabeth Johnson Williams                            Lucy Burns Omaha Platform                                              Chinese Exclusion Act William Jennings Bryan                                Harlan’s Dissent Farmers’ Alliance Ida B. Wells                                                    separate spheres 19th Amendment                                            Minor v. Happersett Progressivism                                                  William Howard Taft Quanah Parker sharecropping double consciousness                                      Radical Reconstruction U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark                                    William McKinley 15th Amendment                                            Spanish-American War