美国文学之历史.ppt

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation, so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. …that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” ---Abraham Lincoln Gettybery Address ?Mount Rushmore National Memorial? Sculptures of?George Washington,?Thomas Jefferson,?Theodore Roosevelt?and?Abraham Lincoln?(left to right) represent the first 130 years of the history of the United States. Location Pennington County, South Dakota,?U.S. Social Reforms The Women’s Rights Movement (1848) “have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belonged to them as citizens of the United States.” ●Education reform “tax-supporting public school to childern” Elizabeth Cady Stanton American Imperialism Industrialization---monopolies---progressivism Isolationism---Neutrality--Imperialism Industrialization---monopolies------Great Depression electrical age Trust –JP Morgan The Gilded Age Progressivism New Deal Thomas Alva Edison In?United States history, the?Gilded Age?was the period following the?US Civil War, roughly from the end of?Reconstruction?in 1877 to the turn of the twentieth century. The term was coined by writers?Mark Twain and?Charles Dudley Warner?in?The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today, satirizing what they believed to be an era of serious social problems hidden by a thin layer of gold. Progressivism?is a general?political philosophy?advocating or favoring gradual social, political, and economic reform. Modern Progressivism emerged as part of a more general response to the vast social changes brought by industrialization