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Index
About this Book
Cover Page
Inside Front Cover
About the Cover Image
Guide to Analyzing Primary and Secondary Sources
United States Map
World Map
Title Page
Dedication
Copyright Page
Preface
Versions and Supplements
Brief Contents
Contents
Maps, Figures, and Tables
How to Use This Book
Chapter 14 Emancipation and Reconstruction
Emancipation
African Americans Embrace Freedom
Reuniting Families Torn Apart by Slavery
Guided Analysis: Freedpeople Petition for Land, 1865
Freedom to Learn
Freedom to Worship and the Leadership Role of Black Churches
National Reconstruction
Abraham Lincoln Plans for Reunification
Andrew Johnson and Presidential Reconstruction
Johnson and Congressional Resistance
Congressional Reconstruction
Comparative Analysis: Debating the Freedmen’s Bureau
The Struggle for Universal Suffrage
Remaking the South
Whites Reconstruct the South
Black Political Participation and Economic Opportunities
Secondary Source Analysis: Race and Reconstruction
White Resistance to Congressional Reconstruction
The Unraveling of Reconstruction
The Republican Retreat
Congressional and Judicial Retreat
The Presidential Compromise of 1876
Conclusion: The Legacies of Reconstruction
Chapter 14 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 14
Chapter 15 The West
Opening the West
The Great Plains
Federal Policy and Foreign Investment
Indians and Resistance to Expansion
Indian Civilizations
Changing Federal Policy toward Indians
Guided Analysis: Buffalo Hunting, c. 1875
Indian Defeat
Reforming Indian Policy
Indian Assimilation and Resistance
The Mining and Lumber Industries
The Business of Mining
Life in the Mining Towns
The Lumber Boom
The Cattle Industry and Commercial Farming
The Life of the Cowboy
The Rise of Commercial Ranching
Commercial Farming
Comparative Analysis: Cowboy Myths and Realities
Women Homesteaders
Farming on the Great Plains
Diversity in the Far West
Mormons
Californios
The Chinese
Secondary Source Analysis: The Significance of the Frontier
Conclusion: The Ambiguous Legacy of the West
Chapter 15 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 15
Chapter 16 Industrial America
America Industrializes
The New Industrial Economy
Innovation and Inventions
Building a New South
Industrial Consolidation
The Growth of Corporations
Guided Analysis: Horace Taylor, What a Funny Little Government, 1900
Laissez-Faire, Social Darwinism, and Their Critics
The Doctrines of Success
Challenges to Laissez-Faire
Society and Culture in the Gilded Age
Wealthy and Middle-Class Leisure-Time Pursuits
Comparative Analysis: Leisure-Class Women
Changing Gender Roles
Black America and Jim Crow
National Politics in the Era of Industrialization
The Weak Presidency
Congressional Inefficiency
The Business of Politics
An Energized and Entertained Electorate
Secondary Source Analysis: Robber Baron or Captain of Industry?
Conclusion: Industrial America
Chapter 16 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 16
Chapter 17 Workers and Farmers in the Age of Organization
Working People Organize
The Industrialization of Labor
Guided Analysis: John Morrison, Testimony on the Impact of Mechanization, 1883
Organizing Unions
Clashes between Workers and Owners
Working-Class Leisure in Industrial America
Farmers Organize
Farmers Unite
Comparative Analysis: Farmers and Workers Organize: Two Views
Populists Rise Up
The Depression of the 1890s
Depression Politics
Political Realignment in the Election of 1896
The Decline of the Populists
Secondary Source Analysis: The Agrarian Myth and Populism
Conclusion: A Passion for Organization
Chapter 17 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 17
Chapter 18 Cities, Immigrants, and the Nation
A New Wave of Immigrants
Immigrants Arrive from Many Lands
Creating Immigrant Communities
Hostility toward Recent Immigrants
Guided Analysis: Anzia Yerzierska, Immigrant Fathers and Daughters, 1925
Comparative Analysis: The Chinese in America
The Assimilation Dilemma
Becoming an Urban Nation
The New Industrial City
Expand Upward and Outward
How the Other Half Lived
Secondary Source Analysis: Immigration, Nativism, and Whiteness
Urban Politics at the Turn of the Century
Political Machines and City Bosses
Urban Reformers
Conclusion: A Nation of Cities
Chapter 18 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 18
Chapter 19 Progressivism and the Search for Order
The Roots of Progressivism
Progressive Origins
Guided Analysis: Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis, 1907
Muckrakers
Humanitarian and Social Justice Reform
Female Progressives and the Poor
Fighting for Women’s Suffrage
Progressivism and African Americans
Comparative Analysis: Addressing Racial Inequality
Progressivism and Indians
Morality and Social Control
Prohibition
Prostitution, Narcotics, and Juvenile Delinquency
Birth Control
Immigration Restriction
Good Government Progressivism
Municipal and State Reform
Conservation and Preservation of the Environment
Secondary Source Analysis: Progressivism in White and Black
Presidential Progressivism
Theodore Roosevelt and the Square Deal
Taft Retreats from Progressivism
The Election of 1912
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom Agenda
Conclusion: The Progressive Legacy
Chapter 19 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 19
Chapter 20 Empire and Wars
The Awakening of Imperialism
The Economics of Expansion
Cultural Justifications for Imperialism
Gender and Empire
Guided Analysis: Rudyard Kipling, “The White Man’s Burden,” 1899
The War with Spain
Revolution in Cuba
The War of 1898
The Pacification of Cuba
The Philippine War
Extending U.S. Imperialism, 1899–1913
Theodore Roosevelt and “Big Stick” Diplomacy
Opening the Door in China
Comparative Analysis: Fighting in the Philippines
Wilson and American Foreign Policy, 1912–1917
Diplomacy and War
Secondary Source Analysis: The U.S. Chooses to Enter World War I
Making the World Safe for Democracy
Fighting the War at Home
Government by Commission
Winning Hearts and Minds
Waging Peace
The Failure of Ratification
Conclusion: A U.S. Empire
Chapter 20 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 20
Chapter 21 The Twenties
Social Turmoil
The Red Scare, 1919–1920
Guided Analysis: A. Mitchell Palmer, The Case against the Reds, 1920
Racial Violence in the Postwar Era
Prosperity, Consumption, and Growth
Government Promotion of the Economy
Americans Become Consumers
Urbanization
Perilous Prosperity
Challenges to Social Conventions
Breaking with the Old Morality
The Harlem Renaissance
Marcus Garvey and Black Nationalism
Culture Wars
Prohibition
Nativists versus Immigrants
Resurrection of the Ku Klux Klan
Comparative Analysis: Men and Women of the KKK
Fundamentalism versus Modernism
Politics and the Fading of Prosperity
The Battle for the Soul of the Democratic Party
Lingering Progressivism
Secondary Source Analysis: The Impact of Prohibition
Financial Crash
Conclusion: The Transitional Twenties
Chapter 21 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 21
Chapter 22 Depression, Dissent, and the New Deal
The Great Depression
Hoover Faces the Depression
Hoovervilles and Dust Storms
Challenges for Minorities
Guided Analysis: Plea from the Scottsboro Prisoners, 1932
Families under Strain
Organized Protest
The New Deal
Roosevelt Restores Confidence
Steps toward Recovery
Direct Assistance and Relief
Comparative Analysis: Letters to Eleanor Roosevelt
New Deal Critics
The New Deal Moves to the Left
Expanding Relief Measures
Establishing Social Security
Organized Labor Strikes Back
A Half Deal for Minorities
Decline of the New Deal
Secondary Source Analysis: New Deal or Raw Deal
Conclusion: New Deal Liberalism
Chapter 22 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 22
Chapter 23 World War II
The Road toward War
The Growing Crisis in Europe
The Challenge to Isolationism
The United States Enters the War
Guided Analysis: Monica Sone, Memories of Pearl Harbor
The Home-Front Economy
Managing the Wartime Economy
New Opportunities for Women
Everyday Life on the Home Front
Fighting for Equality at Home
The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement
Struggles for Mexican Americans
American Indians
The Ordeal of Japanese Americans
Comparative Analysis: Japanese American Internment
Global War
War in Europe
War in the Pacific
Ending the War
Evidence of the Holocaust
Secondary Source Analysis: The Roosevelt Administration and the Holocaust
Conclusion: The Impact of World War II
Chapter 23 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 23
Chapter 24 The Opening of the Cold War
The Origins of the Cold War 1945–1947
Mutual Misunderstandings
The Truman Doctrine
Guided Analysis: Henry Wallace, The Way to Peace, 1946
The Marshall Plan and Economic Containment
The Cold War Hardens, 1948–1953
Military Containment
Comparative Analysis: The Marshall Plan and the Soviet Union
The Korean War
The Korean War and the Imperial Presidency
Combating Communism at Home, 1945–1954
Loyalty and the Second Red Scare
McCarthyism
The Cold War Expands, 1953–1961
Nuclear Weapons and Containment
Interventions in the Middle East, Latin America, and Africa
Early Intervention in Vietnam, 1954–1960
Secondary Source Analysis: Causes of the Cold War
Conclusion: The Cold War and Anticommunism
Chapter 24 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 24
Chapter 25 Troubled Innocence
Peacetime Transition and the Boom Years
Peacetime Challenges, 1945–1948
Economic Conversion and Labor Discontent
Truman, the New Deal Coalition, and the Election of 1948
Economic Boom
Baby Boom
Guided Analysis: Adlai E. Stevenson, “A Purpose for Modern Woman,”1955
Changes in Living Patterns
The Culture of the 1950s
The Rise of Television
Wild Ones on the Big Screen
The Influence of Teenage Culture
The Lives of Women
Religious Revival
Beats and Other Nonconformists
The Growth of the Civil Rights Movement
The Rise of the Southern Civil Rights Movement
School Segregation and the Supreme Court
Comparative Analysis: The Civil Rights Movement and Its Opponents
The Montgomery Bus Boycott
White Resistance to Desegregation
The Sit-Ins
The Civil Rights Movement and Minority Struggles in the West
Secondary Source Analysis: When Did the Civil Rights Movement Begin?
Domestic Politics in the Eisenhower Era
Modern Republicanism
The Election of 1960
Conclusion: Postwar Politics and Culture
Chapter 25 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 25
Chapter 26 Liberalism and Its Challengers
The Politics of Liberalism
Kennedy’s New Frontier
Kennedy, the Cold War, and Cuba
Guided Analysis: Edmund Valtman, The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
The Civil Rights Movement Intensifies, 1961–1968
Freedom Rides
Kennedy Supports Civil Rights
Freedom Summer and Voting Rights
From Civil Rights to Black Power
Federal Efforts toward Social Reform, 1964–1968
The Great Society
The Warren Court
The Vietnam War, 1961–1969
Kennedy’s Intervention in South Vietnam
Johnson Escalates the War in Vietnam
Challenges to the Liberal Establishment
The New Left
The Counterculture
Liberation Movements
Comparative Analysis: Chicano and Native American Freedom Movements
The Revival of Conservatism
Secondary Source Analysis: Race and Class in Second Wave Feminism
Conclusion: Liberalism and Its Discontents
Chapter 26 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 26
Chapter 27 The Swing toward Conservatism
Nixon: War and Diplomacy, 1969–1974
The Election of 1968
The Failure of Vietnamization
Guided Analysis: Richard Nixon, Speech Accepting the Republican Nomination for President, August 8, 1968
The Cold War Thaws
Crisis in the Middle East and at Home
Nixon and Politics, 1969–1974
Pragmatic Conservatism
The Nixon Landslide and Watergate Scandal, 1972–1974
The Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1976–1980
Jimmy Carter and the Limits of Affluence
The Perils of Détente
Challenges in the Middle East
The Persistence of Liberalism in the 1970s
Popular Culture
Women’s Movement
Environmentalism
Comparative Analysis: Women of Color and Feminism
Racial Struggles Continue
The New Right Rises
Tax Revolt
Neo-Conservatism
Christian Conservatism
Secondary Source Analysis: The Rise of the New Right
Conclusion: The Swing toward Conservatism
Chapter 27 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 27
Chapter 28 The Triumph of Conservatism, the End of the Cold War, and the Rise of the New World Order
The Reagan Revolution
Reagan and Reaganomics
The Implementation of Social Conservatism
Reagan and the End of the Cold War, 1981–1988
“The Evil Empire.”
Human Rights and the Fight against Communism
Fighting International Terrorism
Guided Analysis: Robert Ode, Iran Hostage Diary, 1979–1980
The Nuclear Freeze Movement
Comparative Analysis: The Nuclear Freeze Movement
The Road to Nuclear De-escalation
The Presidency of George H. W. Bush, 1989–1993
“Kinder and Gentler” Conservatism
The Breakup of the Soviet Union
Secondary Source Analysis: The End of the Cold War
Globalization and the New World Order
Managing Conflict after the Cold War
The 1992 Election
Conclusion: Conservative Ascendancy and the End of the Cold War
Chapter 28 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 28
Chapter 29 The Challenges of a Globalized World
Transforming American Business and Society
The Computer Revolution
Business Consolidation
The Changing American Population
Political Divisions and Globalization in the Clinton Years
Domestic and Economic Policy during the Clinton Administration
Guided Analysis: Bo Yee, The New American Sweatshop, 1994
Global Challenges
The Presidency of George W. Bush
Bush and Compassionate Conservatism
The Iraq War
Comparative Analysis: The War in Iraq
Bush’s Second Term
The Challenges Faced by President Barack Obama
The Great Recession
Obama and Domestic Politics
Obama and the World
Secondary Source Analysis: The Election of Barack Obama
The Presidency of Donald Trump
The 2016 Election
The Trump Presidency
Women Reshape the Political Culture
Conclusion: Technology and Terror in a Global Society
Chapter 29 Review
Timeline of Events
Key Terms
Review & Relate
Primary Source Project 29
Appendix
The Declaration of Independence
The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union
The Constitution of the United States
Admission of States to the Union
Presidents of the United States
Glossary
Credits
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