The American Journey

, by Goldfield, David R.; Abbott, Carl; Anderson, Virginia Dejohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann E.

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Copyright: 3/15/2004

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Supplemental Materials

American Views

xvi

From Then to Now

xvii

Maps

xvii

Overview Tables

xix

About the Authors

Preface

xxi

Student Tool Kit

xxvii

Worlds Apart

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: Moctezuma

(1)

Different Worlds

(14)

Native American Societies Before 1492

(5)

Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions

(1)

West African Societies

(4)

Western Europe on the Eve of Discovery

(2)

Contact

(6)

The Lure of Discovery

(1)

Christopher Columbus

(1)

Spanish Conquest and Colonization

(3)

The Columbian Exchange

(1)

Competition for a Continent

(4)

Early French Efforts in North America

(1)

English Attempts in the New World

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Where to Learn More

(1)

Transplantation, 1600---1685

(26)

Voices from the American Journey: Thomas Dudley

(1)

The French in North America

(1)

The Development of New France

(1)

The Fur Trade

(1)

English Settlement in the Chesapeake

(6)

The Ordeal of Early Virginia

(2)

The Importance of Tobacco

(2)

Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics

(1)

The Founding of New England

(5)

The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony

(1)

Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoot

(2)

Families; Farms; and Communities in Early New England

(2)

Competition in the Caribbean

(1)

Sugar and Slaves

(1)

A Biracial Society

(1)

The Proprietary Colonies

(5)

Early Carolina

(2)

Pennsylvania: The Dream of Tolerance and Peace

(1)

The Dutch Overseas Empire

(2)

The West India Company and New Netherland

(1)

New Netherland Becomes New York

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Where to Learn More

(1)

The Creation of New Worlds

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Olaudah Equiano

(1)

Indians and Europeans

(9)

Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands

(1)

The Web of Trade

(1)

Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies

(1)

Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples

(2)

After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War

(4)

Africans and Europeans

(7)

Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery

(3)

The Shock of Enslavement

(1)

African-American Families and Communities

(2)

Resistance and Rebellion

(1)

European Laborers in North America

(2)

A Spectrum of Control

(1)

New European Immigrants

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Summary

(1)

Review Questions

(1)

Key Terms

(1)

Where To Learn More

(1)

Convergence and Conflict

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: George Washington

(1)

Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies

(5)

The Regulation of Trade

(1)

The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise

(2)

The Import Trade and Ties of Credit

(1)

Becoming More Like England

(1)

The Transformation of Culture

(5)

Goods and Houses

(1)

Shaping Minds and Manners

(1)

Colonial Religion and the Great Awakening

(3)

The Colonial Political World

(4)

The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control

(1)

The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution

(1)

Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain

(2)

Expanding Empires

(3)

British Colonists in the Backcountry

(1)

The Spanish in Texas and California

(1)

The French Along the Mississippi and in Louisiana

(1)

A Century of Warfare

100

(5)

Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689--1738

100

(2)

King George's War Shifts the Balance, 1739--1754

102

(1)

The French and Indian War, 1754--1760: A Decisive Victory

102

(2)

The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763

104

(1)

Conclusion

105

(1)

Summary

105

(1)

Review Questions

106

(1)

Key Terms

107

(1)

Where to Learn More

107

(1)

Imperial Breakdown, 1763--1774

108

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Eliza Farmer

110

(1)

Imperial Reorganization

111

(3)

British Problems

112

(1)

Dealing with the New Territories

112

(2)

Indian Affairs

114

(2)

Curbing the Assemblies

115

(1)

The Sugar and Stamp Acts

116

(1)

American Reactions

116

(3)

Constitutional Issues

117

(1)

Taxation and the Political Culture

117

(1)

Protesting the Taxes

118

(1)

The Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis

119

(2)

A Strained Relationship

119

(1)

Regulator Movements

120

(1)

The Townshend Crisis

121

(4)

Townshend's Plan

121

(1)

American Boycott

121

(1)

The Boston Massacre

122

(1)

The ``Quiet Period''

123

(1)

The Boston Tea Party

124

(1)

The Intolerable Acts

124

(1)

The Road to Revolution

125

(3)

American Response to the Intolerable Acts

125

(1)

The First Continental Congress

125

(2)

The Continental Association

127

(1)

Political Divisions

127

(1)

Conclusion

128

(1)

Summary

129

(1)

Review Questions

130

(1)

Key Terms

130

(1)

Where to Learn More

130

(2)

The War for Independence, 1774--1783

132

(34)

Voices from the American Journey: John Laurens

134

(1)

The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774--1776

135

(7)

Mounting Tensions

135

(1)

The Loyalists' Dilemma

136

(1)

British Coercion and Conciliation

136

(1)

The Battles of Lexington and Concord

136

(1)

The Second Continental Congress, 1775--1776

137

(1)

Commander in Chief George Washington

137

(1)

Early Fighting

138

(1)

Independence

138

(4)

Republicanism

142

(1)

The Combatants

142

(5)

Professional Soldiers

142

(3)

Women in the Contending Armies

145

(1)

African-American and Native-American Participation in the War

145

(2)

The War in the North, 1776--1777

147

(2)

The British Army Hesitates

147

(1)

The Year of the Hangman

147

(2)

The War Widens, 1778--1781

149

(6)

The United States Gains an Ally

149

(1)

Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea

150

(2)

The Land War Moves South

152

(1)

American Counterattacks

152

(3)

The American Victory, 1782--1783

155

(3)

The Peace of Paris

156

(1)

The Components of Success

156

(2)

War and Society, 1775--1783

158

(2)

The Women's War

158

(1)

Effect of the War on African Americans and Native Americans

158

(2)

The Price of Victory

160

(1)

Conclusion

160

(1)

Summary

161

(1)

Review Questions

162

(1)

Key Terms

162

(1)

Where to Learn More

163

(3)

Visualizing the Past: The Rattlesnake as a National Symbol

164

(2)

The First Republic, 1776--1789

166

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: William Shepard

168

(1)

The New Order of Republicanism

169

(6)

Defining the People

169

(3)

The State Constitutions

172

(2)

The Articles of Confederation

174

(1)

Problems at Home

175

(6)

The Fiscal Crisis

175

(1)

Economic Depression

176

(1)

The Economic Policies of the States

177

(2)

Congress and the West

179

(2)

Diplomatic Weaknesses

181

(2)

Impasse with Britain

182

(1)

Spain and the Mississippi River

183

(1)

Toward a New Union

183

(7)

The Road to Philadelphia

184

(1)

The Convention at Work

184

(2)

Overview of the Constitution

186

(2)

The Struggle over Ratification

188

(2)

Conclusion

190

(1)

Summary

191

(1)

Review Questions

192

(1)

Key Terms

192

(1)

Where to Learn More

193

(1)

A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789--1800

194

(22)

Voices from the American Journey: William Maclay

196

(1)

Washington's America

197

(4)

The Uniformity of New England

197

(1)

Mid-Atlantic Pluralism

198

(1)

The Slave South and Its Backcountry

198

(1)

The Growing West

199

(2)

Forging a New Government

201

(4)

``Mr. President'' and the Bill of Rights

201

(1)

Departments and Courts

202

(1)

Revenue and Trade

203

(1)

Hamilton and the Public Credit

203

(1)

Reaction and Opposition

204

(1)

The Emergence of Parties

205

(5)

The French Revolution

205

(2)

Securing the Frontier

207

(1)

The Whiskey Rebellion

208

(1)

Treaties with Britain and Spain

208

(2)

The First Partisan Election

210

(1)

The Last Federalist Administration

210

(3)

The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair

211

(1)

Crisis at Home

211

(1)

The End of the Federalists

212

(1)

Conclusion

213

(1)

Summary

214

(1)

Review Questions

215

(1)

Key Terms

215

(1)

Where to Learn More

215

(1)

The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800--1824

216

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Rosalie Calvert

218

(1)

Jefferson's Presidency

219

(5)

Reform at Home

219

(1)

The Louisiana Purchase

220

(1)

Florida and Western Schemes

220

(3)

Embargo and a Crippled Presidency

223

(1)

Madison and the Coming of War

224

(2)

The Failure of Economic Sanctions

224

(1)

The Frontier and Indian Resistance

225

(1)

Decision for War

226

(1)

The War of 1812

226

(5)

Setbacks in Canada

229

(1)

Western Victories and British Offensives

229

(1)

The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans

230

(1)

The Era of Good Feelings

231

(2)

Economic Nationalism

231

(1)

Judicial Nationalism

232

(1)

Toward a Continental Empire

232

(1)

The Breakdown of Unity

233

(4)

The Panic of 1819

233

(2)

The Missouri Compromise

235

(2)

The Election of 1824

237

(1)

Conclusion

237

(1)

Summary

238

(1)

Review Questions

238

(1)

Key Terms

239

(1)

Where to Learn More

239

(1)

The Jacksonian Era, 1824--1845

240

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Benjamin B. French

242

(1)

The Egalitarian Impulse

243

(4)

The Extension of White Male Democracy

243

(1)

The Popular Religious Revolt

244

(2)

The Rise of the Jacksonians

246

(1)

Jackson's Presidency

247

(7)

The Jacksonian Appeal

248

(1)

Indian Removal

249

(2)

The Nullification Crisis

251

(2)

The Bank War

253

(1)

Van Buren and Hard Times

254

(2)

The Panic of 1837

254

(1)

The Independent Treasury

255

(1)

Uproar over Slavery

256

(1)

The Rise of the Whig Party

256

(3)

The Party Taking Shape

256

(1)

Whig Persuasion

257

(1)

The Election of 1840

258

(1)

The Whigs in Power

259

(2)

Harrison and Tyler

259

(1)

The Texas Issue

260

(1)

The Election of 1844

261

(1)

Conclusion

261

(1)

Summary

262

(1)

Review Questions

263

(1)

Key Terms

263

(1)

Where to Learn More

263

(1)

Slavery and the Old South, 1800--1860

264

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Hannah Crafts

266

(1)

The Lower South

267

(3)

Cotton and Slaves

267

(1)

The Profits of Slavery

268

(2)

The Upper South

270

(2)

A Period of Economic Adjustment

270

(2)

The Decline of Slavery

272

(1)

Slave Life and Culture

272

(5)

Work Routines and Living Conditions

273

(1)

Families and Religion

274

(1)

Resistance

275

(2)

Free Society

277

(5)

The Slaveholding Minority

278

(2)

The White Majority

280

(1)

Free Black People

281

(1)

The Proslavery Argument

282

(3)

Conclusion

285

(1)

Summary

285

(1)

Review Questions

286

(1)

Key Terms

286

(1)

Where to Learn More

286

(2)

The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815--1850

288

(36)

Voices from the American Journey: Angelina Grimke

290

(1)

Industrial Change and Urbanization

291

(4)

The Transportation Revolution

292

(3)

Cities and Immigrants

295

(11)

The Industrial Revolution

297

(4)

Growing Inequality and New Classes

301

(5)

Reform and Moral Order

306

(4)

The Benevolent Empire

306

(1)

The Temperance Movement

307

(1)

Women's Roles in Reform

308

(2)

Backlash Against Benevolence

310

(1)

Institutions and Social Improvement

310

(5)

School Reform

311

(1)

Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums

312

(1)

Utopian Alternatives

313

(2)

Abolitionism and Women's Rights

315

(6)

Rejecting Colonization

315

(1)

Abolitionism

316

(1)

The Women's Rights Movement

317

(3)

Political Antislavery

320

(1)

Conclusion

321

(1)

Summary

321

(1)

Review Questions

322

(1)

Key Terms

322

(1)

Where to Learn More

323

(1)

The Way West, 1815--1850

324

(26)

Voices from the American Journey: George Catlin

326

(1)

The Agricultural Frontier

327

(6)

The Crowded East

327

(2)

The Old Northwest

329

(2)

The Old Southwest

331

(2)

The Frontier of the Plains Indians

333

(5)

Tribal Lands

333

(2)

The Fur Traders

335

(1)

The Oregon Trail

336

(2)

The Mexican Borderlands

338

(5)

The Peoples of the Southwest

338

(1)

The Americanization of Texas

339

(3)

The Push into California and the Southwest

342

(1)

Politics, Expansion, and War

343

(3)

Manifest Destiny

343

(1)

The Mexican War

344

(2)

Conclusion

346

(2)

Summary

348

(1)

Key Terms

349

(1)

Where to Learn More

349

(1)

The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846--1861

350

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: Harriet Beecher Stowe

352

(1)

Slavery in the Territories

353

(6)

The Wilmot Proviso

353

(1)

The Election of 1848

354

(1)

The Compromise of 1850

355

(2)

Response to the Fugitive Slave Act

357

(1)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

358

(1)

The Election of 1852

359

(1)

Political Realignment

359

(6)

Young America's Foreign Misadventures

360

(1)

Stephen Douglas's Railroad Proposal

360

(1)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

360

(1)

``Bleeding Kansas''

361

(1)

Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics

361

(1)

The Election of 1856

362

(1)

The Dred Scott Case

363

(1)

The Lecompton Constitution

364

(1)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

364

(1)

The Road to Disunion

365

(10)

North-South Differences

366

(1)

John Brown's Raid

367

(1)

The Election of 1860

368

(1)

Secession Begins

369

(2)

Presidential Inaction

371

(1)

Peace Proposals

371

(1)

Lincoln's Views on Secession

371

(2)

Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes

373

(2)

Conclusion

375

(1)

Summary

375

(1)

Review Questions

376

(1)

Key Terms

376

(1)

Where to Learn More

377

(1)

Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861--1865

378

(36)

Voices from the American Journey: Sullivan Ballou

380

(1)

Mobilization, North and South

381

(4)

War Fever

381

(2)

The North's Advantage in Resources

383

(1)

Leaders, Governments, and Strategies

384

(1)

The Early War, 1861--1862

385

(3)

First Bull Run

385

(1)

The War in the West

385

(1)

Reassessing the War: The Human Toll

386

(2)

The War in the East

388

(1)

Turning Points, 1862--1863

388

(9)

The Naval War and Diplomatic War

389

(1)

Antietam

390

(1)

Emancipation

390

(3)

From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg

393

(1)

Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West

393

(4)

War Transforms the North

397

(1)

Wartime Legislation and Politics

397

(1)

Conscription and the Draft Riots

398

(2)

The Northern Economy

398

(1)

Northern Women and the War

399

(1)

The Confederacy Disintegrates

400

(1)

Southern Politics

400

(1)

The Southern Economy

400

(1)

Southern Women and the War

401

(1)

The Union Prevails, 1864--1865

401

(6)

Grant's Plan to End the War

402

(3)

The Election of 1864 and Sherman's March

405

(1)

The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln

406

(1)

Conclusion

407

(2)

Summary

409

(1)

Review Questions

410

(1)

Key Terms

411

(1)

Where to Learn More

411

(3)

Visualizing the Past: The Civil War

412

(2)

Reconstruction, 1865--1877

414

(25)

Voices from the American Journey: T. Thomas Fortune

416

(1)

White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865

417

(1)

More than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865

418

(3)

Education

418

(1)

``Forty Acres and a Mule''

419

(1)

Migration to Cities

420

(1)

Faith and Freedom

420

(1)

Federal Reconstruction, 1865--1870

421

(7)

Presidential Reconstruction, 1865--1867

422

(3)

Congressional Reconstruction, 1867--1870

425

(1)

Southern Republican Governments, 1867--1870

426

(2)

Counter-Reconstruction, 1870--1874

428

(2)

The Uses of Violence

428

(1)

The Failure of Northern Will

429

(1)

Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872

430

(1)

Redemption, 1874--1877

430

(2)

The Democrats' Violent Resurgence

430

(1)

The Weak Federal Response

431

(1)

The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877

431

(1)

The Memory of Reconstruction

431

(1)

The Failed Promise of Reconstruction

432

(3)

Sharecropping

432

(1)

Modest Gains and Future Victories

433

(2)

Conclusion

435

(1)

Summary

435

(1)

Review Questions

436

(1)

Key Terms

437

(1)

Where to Learn More

437

(2)

A New South: Economic Progression and Social Tradition, 1877--1900

439

(29)

Voices from the American Journey: Anna J. Cooper

441

(1)

The Newness of the New South

441

(7)

An Industrial and Urban South

442

(2)

The Limits of Industrial and Urban Growth

444

(2)

Farms to Cities: Impact on Southerners

446

(2)

The Southern Agrarian Revolt

448

(4)

Cotton and Credit

448

(1)

Southern Farmers Organize, 1877--1892

449

(2)

Southern Populists

451

(1)

Women in the New South

452

(2)

Church Work Preserving Memories

453

(1)

Women's Clubs

454

(1)

Settling the Race Issue

454

(10)

The Fluidity of Southern Race Relations, 1877--1890

454

(1)

The White Backlash

455

(1)

Lynch Law

456

(1)

Segregation by Law

456

(2)

Disfranchisement

458

(1)

A National Consensus on Race

459

(2)

Response of the Black Community

461

(3)

Conclusion

464

(1)

Summary

465

(1)

Review Questions

466

(1)

Key Terms

466

(1)

Where to Learn More

467

(1)

Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870--1900

468

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: Mary Antin

470

(1)

New Industry

471

(12)

Inventing Technology: The Electric Age

472

(2)

The Corporation and Its Impact

474

(1)

The Changing Nature of Work

475

(2)

Child Labor

477

(1)

Working Women

478

(1)

Responses to Poverty and Wealth

479

(2)

Workers Organize

481

(2)

New Immigrants

483

(7)

Old World Backgrounds

484

(1)

The Neighborhood

485

(1)

The Job

486

(1)

Nativism

487

(2)

Roots of the Great Migration

489

(1)

New Cities

490

(5)

Centers and Suburbs

491

(2)

The New Middle Class

493

(2)

Conclusion

495

(1)

Summary

496

(1)

Review Questions

496

(1)

Key Terms

496

(1)

Where to Learn More

497

Transforming the West, 1865--1890

496

(26)

Voices from the American Journey: Andrew J. Russell

498

(1)

Subjugating Native Americans

499

(8)

Tribes and Cultures

499

(2)

Federal Indian Policy

501

(1)

Warfare and Dispossession

501

(2)

Life on the Reservation: Americanization

503

(4)

Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza

507

(3)

Rushes and Mining Camps

507

(2)

Labor and Capital

509

(1)

Exploiting the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom

510

(3)

Cattle Drives the Cow Towns

510

(1)

Rise and Fall of Open-Range Ranching

511

(1)

Cowhands and Capitalists

512

(1)

Exploiting the Earth: Homesteaders and Agricultural Expansion

513

(4)

Settling the Land

513

(2)

Home on the Range

515

(1)

Farming the Land

515

(2)

Conclusion

517

(1)

Summary

517

(1)

Review Questions

518

(1)

Key Terms

518

(1)

Where to Learn More

519

(3)

Visualizing the Past: Mythologizing the ``Wild West''

520

(2)

Politics and Government, 1877--1900

522

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Horace and William H. Taft

524

(1)

The Structure and Style of Politics

525

(5)

Campaigns and Elections

525

(1)

Partisan Politics

526

(1)

Associational Politics

527

(3)

The Limits of Government

530

(2)

The Weak Presidency

530

(1)

The Inefficient Congress

531

(1)

The Federal Bureaucracy and the Spoils System

531

(1)

Inconsistent State Government

531

(1)

Public Policies and National Elections

532

(4)

Civil Service Reform

532

(1)

The Political Life of the Tariff

533

(1)

The Beginnings of Federal Regulations

534

(1)

The Money Question

535

(1)

The Crisis of the 1890s

536

(7)

Agricultural Protest

536

(1)

The People's Party

537

(2)

The Challenge of the Depression

539

(3)

The Battle of the Standards and the Election of 1896

542

(1)

Conclusion

543

(1)

Summary

544

(1)

Review Questions

545

(1)

Key Terms

545

(1)

Where to Learn More

545

(1)

The Progressive Era, 1900--1917

546

(32)

Voices from the American Journey: Inez Milholland

548

(2)

The Ferment of Reform

550

(5)

The Context of Reform: Industrial and Urban Tensions

550

(1)

Church and Campus

551

(2)

Muckrakers

553

(1)

The Gospel of Efficiency

553

(1)

Labor's Demand for Rights

553

(1)

Expanding the Women's Sphere

554

(1)

Transatlantic Influences

555

(1)

Socialism

555

(1)

Opponents of Reform

556

(1)

Reforming Society

556

(8)

Settlement Houses and Urban Reform

557

(1)

Protective Legislation for Women and Children

557

(2)

Reshaping Public Education

559

(1)

Challenging Gender Restrictions

559

(1)

Reforming Country Life

560

(2)

Social Control and Moral Crusades

562

(1)

For White People Only?

563

(1)

Reforming Politics and Government

564

(2)

Woman Suffrage

564

(1)

Electoral Reform

564

(1)

Municipal Reform

565

(1)

Progressive State Government

566

(1)

Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency

566

(6)

TR and the Modern Presidency

567

(1)

Roosevelt and Labor

567

(1)

Managing Natural Resources

568

(1)

Corporate Regulation

568

(3)

Taft and the Insurgents

571

(1)

Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform

572

(3)

Election of 1912

572

(1)

Implementing the New Freedom

573

(1)

The Expansion of Reform

574

(1)

Conclusion

575

(1)

Summary

575

(1)

Review Questions

576

(1)

Key Terms

576

(1)

Where to Learn More

577

(1)

Creating an Empire, 1865--1917

578

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Major-General Leonard Wood

580

(1)

The Roots of Imperialism

581

(4)

Ideological Arguments

581

(1)

Strategic Concerns

582

(1)

Economic Designs

583

(2)

First Steps

585

(3)

Seward and Blaine

585

(1)

Hawaii

586

(1)

Chile and Venezuela

587

(1)

The Spanish-American War

588

(4)

The Cuban Revolution

588

(1)

Growing Tensions

589

(1)

War and Empire

590

(1)

The Treaty of Paris

591

(1)

Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899--1917

592

(3)

The Filipino-American War

593

(1)

China and the Open Door

593

(1)

Rivalry with Japan and Russia

594

(1)

Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899--1917

595

(5)

U.S. Rule in Puerto Rico

595

(1)

Cuba as a U.S. Protectorate

596

(1)

The Panama Canal

597

(1)

The Roosevelt Corollary

598

(1)

Dollar Diplomacy

598

(1)

Wilsonian Interventions

599

(1)

Conclusion

600

(1)

Summary

600

(1)

Review Questions

601

(1)

Key Terms

601

(1)

Where to Learn More

601

(1)

America and the Great War, 1914--1920

602

(26)

Voices from the American Journey: Ray Stannard Baker

604

(1)

Waging Neutrality

605

(6)

The Origins of Conflict

605

(1)

American Attitudes

606

(1)

The Economy of War

607

(1)

The Diplomacy of Neutrality

607

(2)

The Battle over Preparedness

609

(1)

The Election of 1916

609

(1)

Descent into War

610

(1)

Waging War in America

611

(6)

Managing the War Economy

611

(1)

Women and Minorities, New Opportunities, Old Inequalities

612

(1)

Financing the War

613

(1)

Conquering Minds

613

(1)

Suppressing Dissent

614

(3)

Waging War and Peace Abroad

617

(3)

The War to End All Wars

617

(2)

The Fourteen Points

619

(1)

The Paris Peace Conference

619

(1)

Waging Peace at Home

620

(5)

Battle over the League

620

(1)

Economic Readjustment and Social Conflict

621

(2)

Red Scare

623

(1)

The Election of 1920

624

(1)

Conclusion

625

(1)

Summary

625

(1)

Review Questions

626

(1)

Key Terms

626

(1)

Where to Learn More

627

(1)

Toward a Modern America, The 1920s

628

(26)

Voices from the American Journey: Upton Sinclair

630

(2)

The Economy That Roared

632

(3)

Boom Industries

632

(2)

Corporate Consolidation

634

(1)

Open Shops and Welfare Capitalism

634

(1)

Sick Industries

635

(1)

The Business of Government

635

(2)

Republican Ascendancy

635

(1)

Government Corruption

636

(1)

Coolidge Prosperity

636

(1)

The Fate of Reform

637

(1)

Cities and Suburbs

637

(3)

Expanding Cities

638

(1)

The Great Black Migration

639

(1)

Barrios

639

(1)

The Road to Suburbia

640

(1)

Mass Culture in the Jazz Age

640

(2)

Advertising the Consumer Society

640

(1)

Leisure and Entertainment

641

(1)

The New Morality

641

(1)

The Searching Twenties

642

(1)

Culture Wars

642

(5)

Nativism and Immigration Restriction

642

(1)

The Klu Klux Klan

643

(1)

Prohibition and Crime

644

(1)

Old-Time Religion and the Scopes Trial

645

(2)

A New Era in the World?

647

(1)

War Debt and Economic Expansion

647

(1)

Rejecting War

647

(1)

Managing the Hemisphere

648

(1)

Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era

648

(1)

Conclusion

649

(1)

Summary

649

(1)

Review Questions

650

(1)

Key Terms

651

(1)

Where to Learn More

651

(3)

Visualizing the Past: Advertising and the Modern Woman

652

(2)

The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1939

654

(30)

Voices from the American Journey: Carlotta Silvas Martine, Eunice Langdon, and Meridel LeSeur

656

(2)

Hard Times in Hooterville

658

(3)

Crash!

658

(1)

The Depression Spreads

659

(1)

``Women's Jobs'' and ``Men's Jobs''

660

(1)

Families in the Depression

660

(1)

``Last Hired, First Fired''

661

(1)

Protest

661

(1)

Herbert Hoover and the Depression

661

(3)

The Limits of Voluntarism

662

(1)

Repudiating Hoover: The 1932 Election

663

(1)

Launching The New Deal

664

(5)

Action Now!

665

(1)

Creating Jobs

666

(1)

Helping Some Farmers

667

(1)

The Flight of the Blue Eagle

667

(1)

Critics Right and Left

667

(2)

Consolidating the New Deal

669

(3)

Lifting Up and Weeding Out

669

(1)

Expanding Relief

670

(1)

The Roosevelt Coalition and the Election of 1936

670

(2)

The New Deal and American Life

672

(5)

Labor on the March

672

(1)

Women and the New Deal

673

(1)

Minorities and the New Deal

674

(1)

The New Deal: North, South, East, and West

675

(1)

The New Deal and Public Activism

676

(1)

Ebbing of the New Deal

677

(1)

Challenging the Court

677

(1)

More Hard Times

677

(1)

Political Stalemate

678

(1)

Good Neighbors and Hostile Forces

678

(3)

Neutrality and Fascism

679

(1)

Ebbing Toward Involvement

680

(1)

Conclusion

681

(1)

Summary

681

(1)

Review Questions

682

(1)

Key Terms

683

(1)

Where to Learn More

683

(1)

World War II, 1939--1945

684

(28)

Voices from the American Journey: Enrico Fermi

686

(1)

The Dilemmas of Neutrality

687

(5)

The Roots of War

687

(1)

Hitler's War in Europe

688

(1)

Trying to Keep Out

688

(2)

Edging Toward Intervention

690

(1)

The Brink of War

691

(1)

December 7, 1941

692

(1)

Holding the Line

692

(3)

Stopping Germany

692

(1)

The Survival of Britain

693

(1)

Retreat and Stabilization in the Pacific

693

(2)

Mobilizing for Victory

695

(7)

Organizing the Economy

695

(1)

The Enlistment of Science

696

(1)

Men and Women in the Military

696

(1)

The Home Front

697

(1)

New Workers

698

(1)

Clashing Cultures

699

(1)

Internment of Japanese Americans

699

(3)

The End of the New Deal

702

(1)

War and Peace

702

(6)

Gathering Allied Strength

702

(1)

Turning the Tide in Europe

703

(1)

Operation Overlord

703

(2)

Victory and Tragedy in Europe

705

(1)

The Pacific War

705

(2)

Searching for Peace

707

(1)

Conclusion

708

(2)

Summary

710

(1)

Review Questions

710

(1)

Key Terms

711

(1)

Where to Learn More

711

(1)

The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946--1952

712

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Bernadette Wheeler

714

(1)

Launching the Great Boom

715

(4)

Reconversion Chaos

715

(1)

Economic Policy

715

(1)

The GI Bill

716

(1)

Assembly-Line Neighborhoods

716

(1)

Steps Toward Civil Rights

717

(1)

Consumer Boom and Baby Boom

718

(1)

Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal

719

(2)

Truman's Opposition

719

(1)

Whistle-Stopping Across America

720

(1)

Truman's Fair Deal

721

(1)

Confronting the Soviet Union

721

(4)

The End of the Grand Alliance

722

(1)

The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan

723

(1)

Soviet Reactions

724

(1)

American Rearmament

724

(1)

Cold War and Hot War

725

(5)

The Nuclear Shadow

725

(1)

The Cold War in Asia

726

(1)

NSC-68 and Aggressive Containment

727

(1)

War in Korea, 1950--1953

727

(1)

The Politics of War

728

(2)

The Second Red Scare

730

(3)

The Communist Party and the Loyalty Program

730

(1)

Naming Names to Congress

730

(2)

Subversion Trials

732

(1)

Senator McCarthy on Stage

732

(1)

Understanding McCarthyism

733

(1)

Conclusion

733

(1)

Summary

734

(1)

Review Questions

735

(1)

Key Terms

735

(1)

Where to Learn More

735

(1)

The Confident Years, 1953--1964

736

(24)

Voices from the American Journey: Melba Pattillo

738

(1)

A Decade of Affluence

739

(5)

What's Good for General Motors

739

(1)

Reshaping Urban America

740

(1)

Comfort on Credit

741

(1)

The New Fifties Family

741

(1)

Inventing Teenagers

742

(1)

Turning to Religion

742

(1)

The Gospel of Prosperity

743

(1)

The Underside of Affluence

744

(1)

Facing off with the Soviet Union

744

(4)

Why We Liked Ike

744

(1)

A Balance of Terror

745

(1)

Containment in Action

745

(2)

Global Standoff

747

(1)

John F. Kennedy and the Cold War

748

(4)

The Kennedy Mystique

748

(1)

Kennedy's Mistakes

748

(1)

Getting into Vietnam

749

(1)

Missile Crisis: A Line Drawn in the Waves

750

(1)

Science and Foreign Affairs

751

(1)

Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights

752

(2)

Getting to the Supreme Court

752

(1)

Deliberate Speed

752

(1)

Public Accommodations

753

(1)

The March on Washington, 1963

754

(1)

``Let Us Continue''

754

(4)

Dallas, 1963

754

(1)

War on Poverty

755

(1)

Civil Rights, 1964--1965

755

(2)

War, Peace, and the Landslide of 1964

757

(1)

Conclusion

758

(1)

Summary

758

(1)

Review Questions

759

(1)

Key Terms

759

(1)

Where to Learn More

759

(1)

Shaken to the Roots, 1965--1980

760

(30)

Voices from the American Journey: Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

762

(1)

The End of Consensus

763

(6)

Deeper into Vietnam

763

(2)

Voices of Dissent

765

(1)

New Left and Community Activism

766

(1)

The Feminist Critique

767

(1)

Youth Culture and Counterculture

768

(1)

Sounds of Change

768

(1)

Communes and Cults

769

(1)

Cities Under Stress

769

(4)

Diagnosing an Urban Crisis

770

(1)

Racial Rioting

770

(1)

Minority Separatism

771

(1)

Suburban Independence: The Outer City

772

(1)

The Year of the Gun, 1968

773

(3)

The Tet Offensive

773

(1)

LBJ's Exit

774

(1)

Red Spring

774

(1)

Violence and Politics

775

(1)

Nixon and Watergate

776

(7)

Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969--1975

776

(1)

Nixon and the Wider World

777

(1)

Courting Middle America

778

(1)

Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation

778

(1)

Americans as Environmentalists

779

(1)

From Dirty Tricks to Watergate

779

(3)

The Ford Footnote

782

(1)

Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House

783

(2)

Carter, Energy, and the Economy

783

(1)

Closed Factories and Failed Farms

783

(1)

Building a Cooperative World

784

(1)

New Crises Abroad

784

(1)

Conclusion

785

(1)

Summary

786

(1)

Review Questions

787

(1)

Key Terms

787

(1)

Where to Learn More

787

(3)

Visualizing the Past: Iconic Images of the Vietnam Era

788

(2)

The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World, 1981--1992

790

(30)

Voices from the American Journey: Celia Noup

793

(1)

Reagan's Domestic Revolution

794

(6)

Reagan's Majority

794

(1)

The New Conservatism

795

(1)

Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation

796

(1)

Crisis for Organized Labor

797

(1)

An Acquisitive Society

798

(1)

Poverty amid Prosperity

798

(2)

Consolidating the Revolution: George H.W. Bush

800

(2)

The Second (Short) Cold War

802

(4)

Confronting the USSR

802

(1)

Risky Business: Foreign Policy Adventures

803

(1)

Embracing Perestroika

804

(1)

Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe

804

(1)

The First Persian Gulf War

805

(1)

Growth in the Sunbelt

806

(4)

The Defense Boom

807

(1)

New Americans

808

(1)

Old Gateways and New

809

(1)

The Graying of America

810

(1)

Values in Collision

810

(1)

New Meanings for American Families

811

(6)

The Feminist Critique

811

(1)

Women's Rights and Public Policy

812

(1)

Coming Out

813

(1)

Churches in Change

814

(1)

Culture Wars

815

(2)

Conclusion

817

(1)

Summary

818

(1)

Review Questions

818

(1)

Key Terms

819

(1)

Where to Learn More

819

(1)

Complacency and Crisis, 1993--2003

820

Voices from the American Journey: John McNamara

822

(1)

The Politics of the Center

823

(5)

Political Generations

823

(1)

Policing the World

824

(1)

Clinton's Neoliberalism

825

(1)

Contract with America and the Election of 1996

825

(1)

The Dangers of Everyday Life

826

(1)

Morality and Partisanship

827

(1)

A New Economy?

828

(5)

The Prosperous 1990s

829

(1)

The Service Economy

829

(1)

The High-Tech Sector

829

(3)

An Instant Society

832

(1)

In the World Market

833

(1)

Broadening Democracy

833

(5)

Americans in 2000

833

(1)

Women from the Grass Roots to Congress

834

(1)

Minorities at the Ballot Box

835

(2)

Rights and Opportunities

837

(1)

Edging into a New Century

838

(3)

The Election of 2000

838

(1)

Reaganomics Revisited

839

(1)

Downsized Diplomacy

840

(1)

Paradoxes of Power

841

(3)

Security and Conflict

841

(3)

Iraq and Conflicts in the Middle East

844

(1)

Conclusion

844

(1)

Summary

845

(1)

Key Terms

846

(1)

Review Questions

846

(1)

Where to Learn More

846

Appendix

(1)

Glossary

(1)

Credits

(1)

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