Week 1 Lecture Outline

A Dynamic Society?

I. Course Mechanics

II. 19th Century Small Town Life

• Late-Nineteenth-Century Town Life: Uniformity
  IMAGE: Lansing, c.1900
  IMAGE: Railroad Station, Lemont, Illinois, c. 1900
• Work
  IMAGE: Drug Store, Fort Wayne, Indiana, c. 1900
  IMAGE: All the Necessary Services and Crafts
• Consumption
  IMAGE: Fargo General Store
  IMAGE: Rock Lake General Store
• Leisure
  IMAGE: Circus
  IMAGE: Baseball
• Classes
• Rough Life/ Independent Life
  IMAGE: Small Town Digging Out of a Blizzard
  IMAGE: Washing Clothes
  IMAGE: Spinning and Carding
• Separate Spheres for Men and Women
  IMAGE: Separate Spheres I
  IMAGE: Separate Spheres II
  IMAGE: Family Scene
• Sense of Community
• Values: McGruffey's Reader

III. A Dynamic Society: Belief in Progress

• The Raw Numbers: Population and Land
  IMAGE: Population Expansion Map, 1870-90
• Transportation
  IMAGE: Railroad Expansion Map, 1870-90
  IMAGE: The Golden Spike
• Economic Take-off
• Growth Based on Inputs: New Labor, Land, and Capital
  IMAGE: Chinese Immigrant Labor
• Age of Bonanzas
  IMAGE: Gold Bonanza
  IMAGE: Lumber Bonanza
  IMAGE: Cattle Bonanza
• Commercial Agriculture
  IMAGE: Farm Mechanization

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created: February 10, 2000
last updated: February 23, 2000

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