Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People, Compact

, by Murrin, John M.; Johnson, Paul E.; McPherson, James M.; Gerstle, Gary; Rosenberg, Emily S.

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Succeed in American history with THOMSON ADVANTAGE BOOKS: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND POWER, COMPACT EDITION! This history text shows how the pursuit of liberty and equality has shaped the nation, and how power has been used and abused in every aspect of American life between men and women, whites and blacks, and rich and poor. Features such as History through Film, chapter focus questions, chapter chronologies, charts, and tables help you master difficult concepts. The Book Companion Website contains additional study aids such as flashcards, tutorial quizzes, internet exercises, and links to the past designed to save you time and enhance your understanding of the material.

Maps

xxii

History Through Film

xxiii

To the Student: Why Study History?

xxiv

Preface

xxvi

When Old Worlds Collide: Contact, Conquest, Catastrophe

(41)

Peoples in Motion

(1)

Chronology

(5)

From Beringia to the Americas

(2)

The Great Extinction and the Rise of Agriculture

(2)

The Polynesians and Hawaii

(1)

The Norsemen

(1)

Europe and the World in the 15th Century

(7)

China: The Rejection of Overseas Expansion

(1)

Europe versus Islam

(1)

The Legacy of the Crusades

(1)

The Unlikely Pioneer: Portugal

(2)

Africa, Colonies, and the Slave Trade

(2)

Portugal's Asian Empire

(1)

Early Lessons

(1)

Spain, Columbus, and the Americas

(3)

Columbus

(2)

Spain and the Caribbean

(1)

The Emergence of Complex Societies in the Americas

(13)

The Rise of Sedentary Cultures

(1)

The Andes: Cycles of Complex Cultures

(2)

Inca Civilization

(1)

Mesoamerica: Cycles of Complex Cultures

(3)

The Aztecs and Tenochtitlan

(1)

North American Mound Builders

(2)

Urban Cultures of the Southwest

(2)

Contact and Cultural Misunderstanding

(2)

Religious Dilemmas

(1)

War as Cultural Misunderstanding

(1)

Gender and Cultural Misunderstanding

(1)

Conquest and Catastrophe

(7)

The Conquest of Mexico and Peru

(2)

North American Conquistadores and Missionaries

(2)

The Spanish Empire and Demographic Catastrophe

(1)

Brazil

(1)

Global Colossus, Global Economy

(2)

Explanations: Patterns of Conquest, Submission, and Resistance

(1)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

The Challenge to Spain and the Settlement of North America

(50)

The Protestant Reformation and the Challenge to Spain

(1)

Chronology

(2)

New France

(2)

Early French Explorers

(1)

Missions and Furs

(1)

History Through Film: Black Robe

(3)

New France under Louis XIV

(1)

The Dutch and Swedish Settlements

(3)

The East and West India Companies

(1)

New Netherland as a Pluralistic Society

(1)

Swedish and English Encroachments

(1)

The Challenge from Elizabethan England

(5)

The English Reformation

(1)

Hawkins and Drake

(1)

Gilbert, Ireland, and America

(1)

Ralegh, Roanoke, and War with Spain

(2)

The Swarming of the English

(1)

The Chesapeake and West Indian Colonies

(11)

The Jamestown Disaster

(1)

Reorganization, Reform, and Crisis

(2)

Tobacco, Servants, and Survival

(2)

Maryland

(1)

Chesapeake Family Life

(1)

The West Indies and the Transition to Slavery

(1)

The Rise of Slavery in North America

(2)

The New England Colonies

(9)

The Pilgrims and Plymouth

(1)

Covenant Theology

(2)

Massachusetts Bay

(1)

Puritan Family Life

(1)

Conversion, Dissent, and Expansion

(2)

Congregations, Towns, and Colony Governments

(1)

Infant Baptism and New Dissent

(2)

The English Civil Wars

(1)

The First Restoration Colonies

(6)

Carolina, Harrington, and the Aristocratic Ideal

(2)

New York: An Experiment in Absolutism

(3)

Brotherly Love: The Quakers and America

(6)

Quaker Beliefs

(2)

Quaker Families

(1)

West New Jersey

(1)

Pennsylvania

(3)

Conclusion

(1)

Suggested Readings

(1)

England Discovers Its Colonies: Empire, Liberty, and Expansion

(43)

Chronology

(1)

The Atlantic Prism and the Spectrum of Settlement

(6)

Demographic Differences

(3)

Race, Ethnicity, and Economy

(1)

Religion and Education

(1)

Local and Provincial Governments

(1)

Unifying Trends: Language, War, Law, and Inheritance

(1)

The Beginnings of Empire

100

(5)

Upheaval in America: The Critical 1640s

100

(1)

Mercantilism as a Moral Revolution

101

(1)

The First Navigation Act

102

(1)

Restoration Navigation Acts

103

(2)

Indians, Settlers, Upheaval

105

(8)

Indian Strategies of Survival

105

(1)

Puritan Indian Missions

106

(1)

Metacom's (or King Philip's) War

107

(3)

Virginia's Indian War

110

(1)

Bacon's Rebellion

111

(2)

Crisis in England and the Redefinition of Empire

113

(3)

The Popish Plot, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Rise of Party

114

(1)

The Lords of Trade and Imperial Reform

114

(2)

The Dominion of New England

116

(1)

The Glorious Revolution

116

(8)

The Glorious Revolution in America

117

(1)

The English Response

118

(1)

The Salem Witch Trials

119

(1)

The Completion of Empire

120

(2)

Imperial Federalism

122

(1)

The Mixed and Balanced Constitution

122

(2)

Contrasting Empires: Spain and France in North America

124

(4)

The Pueblo Revolt

124

(1)

New France and the Middle Ground

125

(2)

French Louisiana and Spanish Texas

127

(1)

An Empire of Settlement: The British Colonies

128

(5)

The Engine of British Expansion: The Colonial Household

128

(2)

The Voluntaristic Ethic and Public Life

130

(1)

Three Warring Empires, 1689--1716

130

(3)

Conclusion

133

(1)

Suggested Readings

134

(1)

Provincial America and the Struggle for a Continent

135

(50)

Expansion versus Anglicization

135

(1)

Chronology

136

(3)

Threats to Householder Autonomy

137

(1)

Anglicizing the Role of Women

138

(1)

Expansion, Immigration, and Regional Differentiation

139

(8)

Emergence of the Old South

139

(4)

The Mid-Atlantic Colonies: The ``Best Poor Man's Country''

143

(1)

The Backcountry

144

(1)

New England: A Faltering Economy and Paper Money

145

(2)

Anglicizing Provincial America

147

(6)

The World of Print

148

(2)

The Enlightenment in America

150

(1)

Lawyers and Doctors

150

(1)

Georgia: The Failure of an Enlightenment Utopia

151

(2)

The Great Awakening

153

(5)

Origins of the Revivals

153

(2)

Whitefield Launches the Transatlantic Revival

155

(1)

Disruptions

155

(1)

Long-Term Consequences of the Revivals

156

(1)

New Colleges

157

(1)

The Denominational Realignment

158

(1)

Political Culture in the Colonies

158

(4)

The Rise of the Assembly and the Governor

159

(1)

``Country'' Constitutions: The Southern Colonies

160

(1)

``Court'' Constitutions: The Northern Colonies

161

(1)

The Renewal of Imperial Conflict

162

(9)

Challenges to French Power

162

(2)

The Danger of Slave Revolts and War with Spain

164

(3)

France versus Britain: King George's War

167

(1)

The Impending Storm

168

(3)

The War for North America

171

(12)

The Albany Congress and the Onset of War

171

(2)

Britain's Years of Defeat

173

(3)

A World War

176

(1)

Imperial Tensions: From Loudoun to Pitt

177

(2)

The Years of British Victory

179

(3)

The Cherokee War and Spanish Intervention

182

(1)

The Peace of Paris

182

(1)

Conclusion

183

(1)

Suggested Readings

184

(1)

Reform, Resistance, Revolution

185

(41)

Imperial Reform

186

(1)

Chronology

186

(6)

From Pitt to Grenville

187

(1)

The Grenville Ministry

187

(1)

Indian Policy and Pontiac's War

188

(2)

The Sugar Act

190

(1)

The Currency Act and the Quartering Act

190

(1)

The Stamp Act

191

(1)

The Stamp Act Crisis

192

(4)

Nullification

193

(1)

Repeal

194

(2)

The Townshend Crisis

196

(10)

The Townshend Program

196

(2)

Resistance: The Politics of Escalation

198

(2)

An Experiment in Military Coercion

200

(1)

The Second Wilkes Crisis

200

(1)

The Boston Massacre

201

(2)

Partial Repeal

203

(1)

Disaffection

204

(2)

Internal Cleavages: The Contagion of Liberty

206

(6)

The Feudal Revival and Rural Discontent

206

(2)

The Regulator Movements in the Carolinas

208

(2)

Slaves and Women

210

(2)

The Last Imperial Crisis

212

(7)

The Tea Crisis

213

(1)

Britain's Response: The Coercive Acts

214

(1)

The Radical Explosion

215

(2)

The First Continental Congress

217

(1)

Toward War

218

(1)

The Improvised War

219

(4)

The Second Continental Congress

220

(1)

War and Legitimacy, 1775--1776

221

(1)

Independence

222

(1)

History Through Film: 1776

223

(1)

Conclusion

224

(1)

Suggested Readings

225

(1)

The Revolutionary Republic

226

(45)

Chronology

227

(1)

Hearts and Minds: The Northern War, 1776--1777

228

(3)

The British Offensive

228

(3)

The Trenton-Princeton Campaign

231

(1)

The Campaigns of 1777 and Foreign Intervention

231

(2)

The Loss of Philadelphia

232

(1)

History Through Film: Mary Silliman's War

233

(3)

Saratoga

234

(1)

French Intervention

234

(1)

Spanish Expansion and Intervention

235

(1)

The Reconstitution of Authority

236

(6)

John Adams and the Separation of Powers

236

(1)

The Virginia Constitution

237

(1)

The Pennsylvania Constitution

238

(1)

Massachusetts Redefines Constitutionalism

239

(2)

Confederation

241

(1)

The Crisis of the Revolution, 1779--1783

242

(6)

The Loyalists

242

(1)

Loyalist Refugees, Black and White

243

(1)

The Indian Struggle for Unity and Survival

244

(2)

Attrition

246

(2)

The British Offensive in the South

248

(8)

The Partisan War

251

(1)

Mutiny and Reform

252

(1)

From the Ravaging of Virginia to Yorktown and Peace

253

(3)

A Revolutionary Society

256

(8)

Religious Transformations

256

(2)

The First Emancipation

258

(1)

The Challenge to Patriarchy

259

(1)

Western Expansion, Discontent, and Conflict with Indians

260

(1)

The Northwest Ordinance

261

(3)

A More Perfect Union

264

(5)

Commerce, Debt, and Shay's Rebellion

264

(1)

Cosmopolitans versus Localists

264

(2)

The Philadelphia Convention

266

(2)

Ratification

268

(1)

Conclusion

269

(1)

Suggested Readings

270

(1)

The Democratic Republic, 1790--1820

271

(36)

Chronology

272

(1)

The Farmer's Republic

273

(1)

Households

273

(1)

History Through Film: A Midwife's Tale

274

(5)

Rural Industry

276

(1)

Neighbors

276

(2)

Inheritance

278

(1)

Standards of Living

278

(1)

From Backcountry to Frontier

279

(5)

The Destruction of the Woodland Indians

280

(1)

The Failure of Cultural Renewal

281

(2)

The Backcountry, 1790--1815

283

(1)

The Plantation South, 1790--1820

284

(5)

Slavery and the Republic

284

(2)

The Recommitment to Slavery

286

(1)

Race, Gender, and Chesapeake Labor

287

(1)

The Lowland Task System

288

(1)

The Seaport Cities, 1790--1815

289

(3)

Commerce

289

(1)

Poverty

290

(1)

The Status of Labor

291

(1)

The Withering of Patriarchal Authority

292

(5)

Paternal Power in Decline

293

(1)

The Alcoholic Republic

293

(1)

The Democratization of Print

294

(1)

Citizenship

295

(2)

Republican Religion

297

(8)

The Decline of the Established Churches

297

(1)

The Rise of the Democratic Sects

298

(2)

The Christianization of the White South

300

(1)

Evangelicals and Slavery

301

(1)

The Beginnings of African American Christianity

302

(1)

Black Republicanism: Gabriel's Rebellion

303

(2)

Conclusion

305

(1)

Suggested Readings

306

(1)

Completing the Revolution, 1789--1815

307

(39)

Establishing the Government

308

(1)

Chronology

308

(6)

The ``Republican Court''

309

(1)

The First Congress

310

(1)

Hamiltonian Economics: The National Debt

311

(1)

Hamiltonian Economics: The Bank and the Excise

312

(1)

The Rise of Opposition

313

(1)

Jefferson versus Hamilton

313

(1)

The Republic in a World at War, 1793--1800

314

(11)

Americans and the French Revolution

315

(1)

Citizen Genet

315

(1)

Western Troubles

316

(2)

The Jay Treaty

318

(1)

Washington's Farewell

319

(1)

The Election of 1796

319

(1)

Troubles with France, 1796--1800

320

(2)

The Crisis at Home, 1798--1800

322

(1)

The Politicians and the Army

323

(1)

The Election of 1800

324

(1)

The Jeffersonians in Power

325

(8)

The Republican Program

325

(2)

Cleansing the Government

327

(1)

The Jeffersonians and the Courts

328

(1)

The Impeachments of Pickering and Chase

329

(1)

Justice Marshall's Court

330

(1)

Louisiana

331

(2)

The Republic and the Napoleonic Wars, 1804--1815

333

(11)

The Dilemmas of Neutrality

333

(1)

Trouble on the High Seas

334

(1)

Embargo

334

(2)

The Road to War

336

(1)

The War Hawk Congress, 1811--1812

337

(1)

War Hawks and the War of 1812

338

(1)

The War with Canada, 1812--1813

338

(3)

Tecumseh's Last Stand

341

(1)

The British Offensive, 1814

342

(1)

The Hartford Convention

343

(1)

The Treaty of Ghent

344

(1)

Conclusion

344

(1)

Suggested Readings

345

(1)

The Market Revolution, 1815--1860

346

(36)

Government and Markets

347

(1)

Chronology

347

(4)

The American System: The Bank of the United States

347

(1)

The American System: Tariffs and Internal Improvements

348

(1)

Markets and the Law

349

(2)

The Transportation Revolution

351

(5)

Transportation in 1815

351

(1)

Improvements: Roads and Rivers

351

(2)

Improvements: Canals and Railroads

353

(1)

Time and Money

354

(2)

Markets and Regions

356

(1)

From Yeoman to Businessman: The Rural North and West

356

(9)

Shaping the Northern Landscape

357

(1)

The Transformation of Rural Outwork

358

(1)

Farmers as Consumers

358

(1)

The Northwest: Southern Migrants

359

(1)

The Northwest: Northern Migrants

360

(2)

Households

362

(2)

Neighborhoods: The Landscape of Privacy

364

(1)

The Industrial Revolution

365

(7)

Factory Towns: The Rhode Island System

365

(2)

Factory Towns: The Waltham System

367

(2)

Urban Businessmen

369

(1)

Metropolitan Industrialization

370

(2)

History Through Film: Gangs of New York

372

(1)

The Market Revolution in the South

373

(7)

The Organization of Slave Labor

374

(1)

Paternalism

375

(1)

Yeomen and Planters

376

(1)

Yeomen and the Market

377

(1)

A Balance Sheet: The Plantation and Southern Development

378

(2)

Conclusion

380

(1)

Suggested Readings

381

(1)

Toward an American Culture

382

(33)

The Northern Middle Class

382

(1)

Chronology

383

(8)

The Evangelical Base

383

(2)

Domesticity

385

(1)

Sentimentality

386

(2)

Fine Arts

388

(1)

Nature and Art

389

(1)

Scenic Tourism: Niagara Falls

390

(1)

The Plain People of the North

391

(5)

Religion and the Common Folk

391

(1)

Popular Millennialism

392

(2)

Family and Society

394

(1)

The Prophet Joseph Smith

395

(1)

The Rise of Popular Culture

396

(6)

Blood Sports

396

(1)

Boxing

396

(1)

An American Theater

397

(2)

Minstrelsy

399

(1)

Novels and the Penny Press

400

(2)

Family, Church, and Neighborhood: The White South

402

(5)

Southern Families

402

(1)

Southern Entertainments

403

(1)

The Camp Meeting Becomes Respectable

404

(1)

Religious Conservatism

405

(1)

Pro-slavery Christianity

406

(1)

The Private Lives of Slaves

407

(6)

The Slave Family

407

(2)

White Missions

409

(1)

Slave Christians

410

(1)

Religion and Revolt

411

(1)

Nat Turner

412

(1)

Conclusion

413

(1)

Suggested Readings

414

(1)

Society, Culture, and Politics, 1820s--1840s

415

(33)

Constituencies

416

(1)

Chronology

416

(3)

The North and West

416

(2)

The South

418

(1)

The Politics of Economic Development

419

(4)

Government and Its Limits

419

(2)

Banks

421

(2)

Internal Improvements

423

(1)

The Politics of Social Reform

423

(6)

Public Schools

424

(1)

Ethnicity, Religion, and the Schools

425

(1)

Prisons

426

(1)

Asylums

427

(1)

The South and Social Reform

428

(1)

Excursus: The Politics of Alcohol

429

(5)

Ardent Spirits

429

(2)

The Origins of Prohibition

431

(1)

The Democratization of Temperance

432

(1)

Temperance Schisms

433

(1)

Ethnicity and Alcohol

434

(1)

The Politics of Race

434

(8)

Free Blacks

435

(1)

Discrimination

435

(2)

Democratic Racism

437

(1)

Conceptions of Racial Difference

438

(1)

The Beginnings of Antislavery

439

(1)

Abolitionists

440

(1)

Agitation

441

(1)

The Politics of Gender and Sex

442

(4)

Appetites

442

(1)

Moral Reform

443

(1)

Women's Rights

444

(2)

Conclusion

446

(1)

Suggested Readings

447

(1)

Jacksonian Democracy

448

(37)

Prologue: 1819

448

(1)

Chronology

449

(4)

The West, 1803--1840s

449

(1)

The Argument over Missouri

450

(1)

The Missouri Compromise

451

(1)

The Panic of 1819

452

(1)

Republican Revival

453

(5)

Martin Van Buren Leads the Way

454

(1)

The Election of 1824

454

(2)

``A Corrupt Bargain''

456

(1)

Jacksonian Melodrama

457

(1)

Adams versus Jackson

458

(6)

Nationalism in an International Arena

458

(1)

Nationalism at Home

459

(1)

The Birth of the Democratic Party

460

(1)

The Election of 1828

460

(2)

A People's Inauguration

462

(1)

The Spoils System

463

(1)

Jacksonian Democracy and the South

464

(2)

Southerners and Indians

464

(1)

Indian Removal

465

(1)

History Through Film: Amistad

466

(8)

Southerners and the Tariff

467

(1)

Nullification

468

(2)

The ``Petticoat Wars''

470

(1)

The Fall of Calhoun

471

(1)

Petitions, the Gag Rule, and the Southern Mails

472

(2)

Jacksonian Democracy and the Market Revolution

474

(5)

The Second Bank of the United States

474

(1)

The Bank War

475

(2)

The Beginnings of the Whig Party

477

(1)

A Balanced Budget

478

(1)

The Second American Party System

479

(4)

``Martin Van Ruin''

480

(1)

The Election of 1840

481

(2)

Two Parties

483

(1)

Conclusion

483

(1)

Suggested Readings

484

(1)

Manifest Destiny: An Empire for Liberty---or Slavery?

485

(31)

Growth as the American Way

485

(1)

Chronology

486

(9)

Manifest Destiny and Slavery

487

(1)

The Westering Impulse

488

(1)

The Hispanic Southwest

488

(1)

The Oregon and California Trails

489

(3)

The Mormon Migration

492

(1)

The Republic of Texas

492

(1)

The Annexation Controversy

493

(2)

Acquisition of Texas and Oregon

495

(1)

The Mexican War

495

(6)

Military Campaigns of 1846

496

(1)

Military Campaigns of 1847

497

(1)

Antiwar Sentiment

498

(2)

The Wilmot Proviso

500

(1)

The Election of 1848

501

(4)

The Free Soil Party

502

(1)

The Gold Rush and California Statehood

503

(2)

The Compromise of 1850

505

(7)

The Senate Debates

505

(2)

Passage of the Compromise

507

(1)

The Fugitive Slave Law

508

(1)

The Slave-Catchers

509

(2)

Uncle Tom's Cabin

511

(1)

Filibustering

512

(2)

The Gray-Eyed Man of Destiny

513

(1)

Conclusion

514

(1)

Suggested Readings

515

(1)

The Gathering Tempest, 1853--1860

516

(36)

Kansas and the Rise of the Republican Party

516

(1)

Chronology

517

(3)

The Kansas-Nebraska Act

518

(1)

Death of the Whig Party

519

(1)

Immigration and Nativism

520

(5)

Immigrants in Politics

522

(1)

The Rise of the Know-Nothings

523

(1)

The Decline of Nativism

524

(1)

Bleeding Kansas

525

(3)

The Caning of Sumner

527

(1)

The Election of 1856

528

(5)

The Dred Scott Case

531

(1)

The Lecompton Constitution

532

(1)

The Economy in the 1850s

533

(13)

``The American System of Manufactures''

534

(2)

The Southern Economy

536

(1)

The Sovereignty of King Cotton

537

(2)

Labor Conditions in the North

539

(1)

The Panic of 1857

540

(1)

Sectionalism and the Panic

541

(1)

The Free-Labor Ideology

542

(2)

The Impending Crisis

544

(1)

Southern Nonslaveholders

544

(2)

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

546

(4)

The Freeport Doctrine

547

(1)

John Brown at Harpers Ferry

548

(2)

Conclusion

550

(1)

Suggested Readings

550

(2)

Secession and Civil War, 1860--1862

552

(37)

The Election of 1860

552

(1)

Chronology

553

(4)

The Republicans Nominate Lincoln

555

(1)

Southern Fears

556

(1)

The Lower South Secedes

557

(6)

Northerners Affirm the Union

558

(1)

Compromise Proposals

559

(1)

Establishment of the Confederacy

560

(1)

The Fort Sumter Issue

561

(2)

Choosing Sides

563

(3)

The Border States

564

(1)

The Creation of West Virginia

565

(1)

Indian Territory and the Southwest

566

(1)

The Balance Sheet of War

566

(2)

Strategy and Morale

567

(1)

History Through Film: The Red Badge of Courage

568

(6)

Mobilizing for War

569

(2)

Weapons and Tactics

571

(1)

Logistics

572

(1)

Financing the War

573

(1)

Navies, the Blockade, and Foreign Relations

574

(4)

King Cotton Diplomacy

574

(1)

The Trent Affair

575

(1)

The Confederate Navy

576

(1)

The Monitor and the Virginia

576

(2)

Campaigns and Battles, 1861--1862

578

(7)

The Battle of Bull Run

578

(2)

Naval Operations

580

(1)

Fort Henry and Fort Donelson

580

(2)

The Battle of Shiloh

582

(1)

The Virginia Theater

583

(1)

The Seven Days' Battles

584

(1)

Confederate Counteroffensives

585

(2)

The Second Battle of Bull Run

585

(2)

Conclusion

587

(1)

Suggested Readings

588

(1)

A New Birth of Freedom, 1862--1865

589

(38)

Slavery and the War

589

(1)

Chronology

590

(7)

The ``Contrabands''

591

(1)

The Border States

591

(1)

The Decision for Emancipation

592

(1)

New Calls for Troops

593

(1)

The Battle of Antietam

594

(2)

The Emancipation Proclamation

596

(1)

A Winter of Discontent

597

(5)

The Rise of the Copperheads

598

(1)

Economic Problems in the South

599

(1)

The Wartime Draft and Class Tensions

600

(2)

A Poor Man's Fight?

602

(1)

Blueprint for Modern America

602

(2)

Women and the War

603

(1)

The Confederate Tide Crests and Recedes

604

(6)

The Battle of Chancellorsville

604

(1)

The Gettysburg Campaign

605

(2)

The Vicksburg Campaign

607

(1)

Chickamauga and Chattanooga

608

(2)

Black Men in Blue

610

(2)

Black Soldiers in Combat

610

(2)

Emancipation Confirmed

612

(1)

The Year of Decision

612

(7)

Out of the Wilderness

613

(1)

Spotsylvania and Cold Harbor

614

(1)

Stalemate in Virginia

615

(1)

The Atlanta Campaign

615

(1)

Peace Overtures

616

(2)

The Prisoner-Exchange Controversy

618

(1)

The Issue of Black Soldiers in the Confederate Army

619

(1)

Lincoln's Reelection and the End of the Confederacy

619

(6)

The Capture of Atlanta

619

(1)

The Shenandoah Valley

620

(1)

From Atlanta to the Sea

620

(1)

The Battles of Franklin and Nashville

621

(1)

Fort Fisher and Sherman's March through the Carolinas

621

(2)

The Road to Appomattox

623

(1)

The Assassination of Lincoln

624

(1)

Conclusion

625

(1)

Suggested Readings

626

(1)

Reconstruction, 1863--1877

627

(33)

Wartime Reconstruction

627

(1)

Chronology

628

(2)

Radical Republicans and Reconstruction

629

(1)

Andrew Johnson and Reconstruction

630

(6)

Johnson's Policy

631

(1)

Southern Defiance

632

(1)

The Black Codes

633

(1)

Land and Labor in the Postwar South

633

(1)

The Freedmen's Bureau

634

(1)

Land for the Landless

634

(2)

Education

636

(1)

The Advent of Congressional Reconstruction

636

(4)

Schism between President and Congress

636

(1)

The 14th Amendment

637

(1)

The 1866 Elections

637

(1)

The Reconstruction Acts of 1867

638

(2)

The Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

640

(3)

The Completion of Formal Reconstruction

640

(1)

The 15th Amendment

641

(1)

The Election of 1868

642

(1)

The Grant Administration

643

(5)

Civil Service Reform

643

(1)

Foreign Policy Issues

644

(1)

Reconstruction in the South

645

(1)

Blacks in Office

646

(1)

``Carpetbaggers''

647

(1)

``Scalawags''

647

(1)

The Ku Klux Klan

647

(1)

History Through Film: The Birth of a Nation

648

(4)

The Election of 1872

651

(1)

The Panic of 1873

651

(1)

The Retreat from Reconstruction

652

(6)

The Mississippi Election of 1875

652

(2)

The Supreme Court and Reconstruction

654

(1)

The Election of 1876

655

(1)

Disputed Results

655

(2)

The Compromise of 1877

657

(1)

The End of Reconstruction

657

(1)

Conclusion

658

(1)

Suggested Readings

659

(1)

Frontiers of Change, Politics of Stalemate, 1865--1898

660

(24)

Chronology

661

(1)

Agencies of Westward Expansion

662

(4)

The Mining Frontier

663

(1)

The Ranching Frontier

663

(3)

The Last Indian Frontier

666

(2)

Conflict with the Sioux

667

(1)

History Through Film: Fort Apache

668

(5)

Suppression of Other Plains Indians

668

(3)

The ``Peace Policy''

671

(1)

Mexican Americans

672

(1)

The New South

673

(5)

Southern Industry

674

(1)

Southern Agriculture

675

(1)

Race Relations in the New South

676

(2)

The Politics of Stalemate

678

(4)

Knife-Edge Electoral Balance

679

(1)

Civil Service Reform

680

(1)

The Tariff Issue

681

(1)

Conclusion

682

(1)

Suggested Readings

683

(1)

Economic Change and the Crisis of the 1890s

684

(32)

Economic Growth

684

(1)

Chronology

685

(2)

Railroads

685

(2)

Technology

687

(1)

The American Middle Class

687

(10)

The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition

687

(1)

Gilded Age Cities

688

(1)

The American Museum

689

(1)

The Department Store and Mail-Order Catalogs

690

(1)

Advertising and Magazines

691

(1)

African American Middle-Class Culture

692

(1)

The New Woman

693

(2)

The World's Columbian Exhibition

695

(2)

Wealth and Inequality

697

(2)

The Antitrust Movement

698

(1)

Labor Strife

699

(7)

The Great Railroad Strike of 1877

700

(1)

The Knights of Labor

700

(1)

Haymarket

701

(1)

Henry George

702

(1)

Edward Bellamy

703

(1)

The Homestead Strike

704

(1)

The Depression of 1893--1897

704

(1)

The Pullman Strike

705

(1)

Farmers' Movements

706

(4)

Credit and Money

707

(1)

The Greenback and Silver Movements

708

(1)

The Farmers' Alliance

709

(1)

The Rise and Fall of the People's Party

710

(4)

The Silver Issue

712

(1)

The Election of 1896

712

(2)

Conclusion

714

(1)

Suggested Readings

714

(2)

An Industrial Society, 1890--1920

716

(35)

Chronology

717

(1)

Sources of Economic Growth

717

(7)

Technology

718

(1)

Corporate Growth

718

(1)

Mass Production and Distribution

719

(1)

Corporate Consolidation

719

(2)

Revolution in Management

721

(1)

Scientific Managemention the Factory Floor

721

(3)

``Robber Barons'' No More

724

(1)

Obsession with Physical and Racial Fitness

725

(2)

Social Darwinism

727

(1)

Immigration

727

(7)

European Immigration

728

(2)

Chinese and Japanese Immigration

730

(2)

Immigrant Labor

732

(2)

Living Conditions

734

(1)

Building Ethnic Communities

734

(4)

A Network of Institutions

735

(1)

The Emergence of an Ethnic Middle Class

735

(1)

Political Machines and Organized Crime

736

(2)

African American Labor and Community

738

(2)

Workers and Unions

740

(4)

Samuel F. Gompers and the AFL

741

(2)

``Big Bill'' Haywood and the IWW

743

(1)

The Joys of the City

744

(1)

The New Sexuality and the Rise of Feminism

745

(1)

History Through Film: The Great White Hope

746

(3)

Feminism

747

(2)

Conclusion

749

(1)

Suggested Readings

749

(2)

Progressivism

751

(37)

Chronology

752

(1)

Progressivism and the Protestant Spirit

752

(1)

Muckrakers, Magazines, and the Turn toward ``Realism''

753

(2)

Increased Newspaper and Magazine Circulation

754

(1)

The Turn toward ``Realism''

754

(1)

Settlement Houses and Women's Activism

755

(4)

Hull House

756

(1)

The Cultural Conservatism of Progressive Reformers

757

(1)

A Nation of Clubwomen

758

(1)

Socialism and Progressivism

759

(2)

The Many Faces of Socialism

759

(1)

Socialists and Progressives

760

(1)

Municipal Reform

761

(1)

The City Commission Plan

761

(1)

The City Manager Plan

762

(1)

The Costs of Reform

762

(1)

Political Reform in the States

762

(6)

Restoring Sovereignty to ``the People''

763

(1)

Creating a Virtuous Electorate

763

(1)

The Australian Ballot

764

(1)

Personal Registration Laws

764

(1)

Disenfranchisement

764

(2)

Disillusionment with the Electorate

766

(1)

Woman Suffrage

766

(2)

Economic and Social Reform in the States

768

(2)

Robert La Follette and Wisconsin Progressivism

768

(1)

Progressive Reform in New York

769

(1)

A Renewed Campaign for Civil Rights

770

(3)

The Failure of Accommodationism

770

(1)

From the Niagara Movement to the NAACP

771

(2)

National Reform

773

(5)

The Roosevelt Presidency

773

(1)

Regulating the Trusts

774

(1)

Toward a ``Square Deal''

774

(1)

Expanding Government Power: The Economy

775

(1)

Expanding Government Power: The Environment

775

(2)

Progressivism: A Movement for the People?

777

(1)

The Republicans: A Divided Party

777

(1)

The Taft Presidency

778

(1)

Battling Congress

778

(1)

The Ballinger-Pinchot Controversy

778

(1)

Roosevelt's Return

779

(1)

The Bull Moose Campaign

780

(1)

The Rise of Woodrow Wilson

780

(1)

The Election of 1912

781

(1)

The Wilson Presidency

782

(4)

Tariff Reform and a Progressive Income Tax

782

(1)

The Federal Reserve Act

782

(2)

From the New Freedom to the New Nationalism

784

(2)

Conclusion

786

(1)

Suggested Readings

786

(2)

Becoming a World Power, 1898--1917

788

(30)

Chronology

789

(1)

The United States Looks Abroad

789

(4)

Protestant Missionaries

790

(1)

Businessmen

790

(1)

Imperialists

791

(2)

The Spanish-American War

793

(6)

``A Splendid Little War''

795

(4)

The United States Becomes a World Power

799

(7)

The Debate over the Treaty of Paris

800

(1)

The American-Filipino War

801

(1)

Controlling Cuba and Puerto Rico

802

(2)

China and the ``Open Door''

804

(2)

Theodore Roosevelt, Geopolitician

806

(2)

The Roosevelt Corollary

806

(1)

The Panama Canal

807

(1)

History Through Film: Tarzan, the APE Man

808

(5)

Keeping the Peace in East Asia

811

(2)

William Howard Taft, Dollar Diplomat

813

(1)

Woodrow Wilson, Struggling Idealist

814

(2)

Conclusion

816

(1)

Suggested Readings

817

(1)

War and Society, 1914--1920

818

(34)

Chronology

819

(1)

Europe's Descent into War

819

(3)

American Neutrality

822

(5)

Submarine Warfare

823

(1)

The Peace Movement

824

(1)

Wilson's Vision: ``Peace without Victory''

825

(1)

German Escalation

826

(1)

American Intervention

827

(2)

Mobilizing for ``Total'' War

829

(10)

Organizing Industry

829

(1)

Securing Workers, Keeping Labor Peace

830

(2)

Raising an Army

832

(2)

Paying the Bills

834

(1)

Arousing Patriotic Ardor

835

(1)

Wartime Repression

836

(3)

The Failure of the International Peace

839

(6)

The Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles

840

(1)

The League of Nations

841

(1)

Wilson versus Lodge: The Fight over Ratification

841

(3)

The Treaty's Final Defeat

844

(1)

The Postwar Period: A Society in Convulsion

845

(5)

Labor-Capital Conflict

845

(1)

Radicals and the Red Scare

846

(2)

Racial Conflict and the Rise of Black Nationalism

848

(2)

Conclusion

850

(1)

Suggested Readings

851

(1)

The 1920s

852

(41)

Chronology

853

(1)

Prosperity

853

(12)

A Consumer Society

854

(1)

A People's Capitalism

855

(1)

The Rise of Advertising and Mass Marketing

856

(2)

Changing Attitudes toward Marriage and Sexuality

858

(1)

An Age of Celebrity

858

(1)

Celebrating Business Civilization

859

(1)

Industrial Workers

860

(2)

Women and Work

862

(1)

The Women's Movement Adrift

863

(2)

The Politics of Business

865

(5)

Harding and the Politics of Personal Gain

865

(2)

Coolidge and Laissez-Faire Politics

867

(1)

Hoover and the Politics of Associationalism

867

(1)

The Politics of Business Abroad

868

(2)

Farmers, Small-Town Protestants, and Moral Traditionalists

870

(9)

Agricultural Depression

870

(1)

Cultural Dislocation

871

(2)

Prohibition

873

(1)

The Ku Klux Klan

873

(2)

Immigration Restriction

875

(2)

Fundamentalism versus Liberal Protestantism

877

(1)

The Scopes Trial

878

(1)

Ethnic and Racial Communities

879

(3)

European American Ethnics

879

(2)

African Americans

881

(1)

History Through Film: The Jazz Singer

882

(7)

The Harlem Renaissance

885

(1)

Mexican Americans

886

(3)

The ``Lost Generation'' and Disillusioned Intellectuals

889

(2)

Democracy on the Defensive

890

(1)

Conclusion

891

(1)

Suggested Readings

892

(1)

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

893

(42)

Chronology

894

(1)

Causes of the Great Depression

895

(2)

Stock Market Speculation

895

(1)

Mistakes by the Federal Reserve Board

895

(1)

An Ill-Advised Tariff

896

(1)

A Maldistribution of Wealth

896

(1)

Hoover: The Fall of a Self-Made Man

897

(3)

Hoover's Program

897

(1)

The Bonus Army

898

(2)

A Culture in Crisis

900

(1)

The Democratic Roosevelt

901

(2)

An Early Life of Privilege

902

(1)

Roosevelt Liberalism

902

(1)

The First New Deal, 1933--1935

903

(10)

Saving the Banks

905

(1)

Economic Relief

906

(1)

Agricultural Reform

906

(3)

Industrial Reform

909

(1)

Rebuilding the Nation's Infrastructure

910

(1)

The TVA Alternative

911

(1)

The New Deal and Western Development

911

(2)

Political Mobilization, Political Unrest, 1934--1935

913

(3)

Populist Critics of the New Deal

913

(1)

Labor Protests

914

(1)

Anger at the Polls

915

(1)

Radical Third Parties

916

(1)

The Second New Deal, 1935--1937

916

(10)

Philosophical Underpinnings

917

(1)

Legislation

917

(2)

Victory in 1936: The New Democratic Coalition

919

(1)

Rhetoric Versus Reality

920

(1)

Men, Women, and Reform

921

(3)

Labor in Politics and Culture

924

(2)

America's Minorities and the New Deal

926

(4)

Eastern and Southern European Ethnics

927

(1)

African Americans

927

(1)

Mexican Americans

928

(1)

American Indians

929

(1)

The New Deal Abroad

930

(2)

Stalemate, 1937--1940

932

(1)

The Court-Packing Fiasco

932

(1)

The Recession of 1937--1938

933

(1)

Conclusion

933

(1)

Suggested Readings

934

(1)

America during the Second World War

935

(41)

Chronology

936

(1)

The Road to War: Aggression and Response

936

(10)

The Rise of Aggressor States

937

(1)

Isolationist Sentiment and American Neutrality

937

(1)

Growing Interventionist Sentiment

938

(1)

The Mounting Crisis

938

(1)

The Outbreak of War in Europe

939

(1)

America's Response to War in Europe

940

(3)

An ``Arsenal of Democracy''

943

(1)

Pearl Harbor

944

(2)

Fighting the War in Europe

946

(4)

Campaigns in North Africa and Italy

947

(1)

Operation Overlord

948

(2)

The Pacific Theater

950

(4)

Seizing the Initiative in the Pacific

950

(1)

China Policy

951

(1)

Pacific Strategy

951

(3)

A New President

954

(3)

Atomic Power and Japanese Surrender

954

(3)

The War at Home: The Economy

957

(5)

Government's Role in the Economy

957

(1)

Business and Finance

958

(2)

The Workforce

960

(1)

Labor Unions

961

(1)

Assessing Economic Change

962

(1)

The War at Home: Social Issues

962

(8)

Wartime Propaganda

963

(1)

Gender Equality

964

(1)

Racial Equality

965

(2)

Racial Tensions

967

(3)

Shaping the Peace

970

(4)

International Organizations

970

(1)

Spheres of Interest and Postwar Settlements

971

(3)

Conclusion

974

(1)

Suggested Readings

975

(1)

The Age of Containment, 1946--1954

976

(36)

Creating a National Security State, 1945--1949

976

(1)

Chronology

977

(7)

Onset of the Cold War

977

(1)

Containment Abroad: The Truman Doctrine

978

(2)

Truman's Loyalty Program

980

(1)

The National Security Act, the Marshall Plan, and the Berlin Crisis

981

(2)

The Election of 1948

983

(1)

The Korean War Era, 1949--1952

984

(6)

NATO, China, and the Bomb

984

(1)

NSC-68

985

(1)

The Korean War

986

(3)

Korea and Containment

989

(1)

Containment at Home

990

(4)

Anticommunism and the Labor Movement

991

(1)

HUAC and the Loyalty Program

992

(2)

History Through Film: High Noon

994

(5)

Targeting Difference

995

(1)

The ``Great Fear''

996

(2)

McCarthyism

998

(1)

Truman's Fair Deal

999

(6)

The Employment Act of 1946 and the Promise of Economic Growth

1000

(1)

Shaping the Fair Deal

1001

(2)

Civil Rights

1003

(2)

A Changing Culture

1005

(4)

Jackie Robinson and the Baseball ``Color Line''

1005

(1)

Suburban Development

1006

(2)

Allure and Danger: Women on Film

1008

(1)

From Truman to Eisenhower

1009

(1)

The Election of 1952

1009

(1)

A Soldier-President

1010

(1)

Conclusion

1010

(1)

Suggested Readings

1011

(1)

Affluence and Its Discontents, 1953--1963

1012

(44)

Foreign Policy, 1953--1960

1012

(1)

Chronology

1013

(4)

Eisenhower Takes Command

1013

(1)

The New Look and Summitry

1014

(2)

Covert Action and Economic Leverage

1016

(1)

America and the Third World

1017

(3)

Latin America

1017

(1)

Nasserism and the Suez Crisis of 1956

1018

(1)

Vietnam

1019

(1)

Affluence---A ``People of Plenty''

1020

(8)

Economic Growth

1021

(2)

Highways and Waterways

1023

(2)

Labor--Management Accord

1025

(1)

Political Pluralism

1026

(1)

A Religious People

1027

(1)

Discontents of Affluence

1028

(4)

Conformity in an Affluent Society

1028

(1)

Restive Youth

1029

(2)

The Mass Culture Debate

1031

(1)

Changing Gender Patterns

1032

(2)

The New Suburbs and Gender Ideals

1032

(1)

Women's Changing Roles

1033

(1)

The Fight against Discrimination, 1953--1960

1034

(8)

The Brown Cases, 1954--1955

1035

(2)

The Montgomery Bus Boycott and Martin Luther King, Jr.

1037

(1)

The Domestic and International Politics of Civil Rights

1037

(2)

American Indian Policy

1039

(1)

The Growth of Spanish-Speaking Populations

1040

(1)

Urban-Suburban Issues

1041

(1)

Debating the Role of Government

1042

(3)

The New Conservatives

1042

(1)

Advocates of a More Active Government

1043

(2)

The Kennedy Years: Foreign Policy

1045

(4)

The Election of 1960

1045

(2)

Kennedy's Foreign Policy Goals

1047

(1)

Cuba and Berlin

1047

(2)

Southeast Asia and ``Flexible Response''

1049

(1)

The Kennedy Years: Domestic Policy

1049

(5)

Policy Making under Kennedy

1049

(1)

The Civil Rights Movement, 1960--1963

1050

(2)

Women's Issues

1052

(1)

The Assassination of John F. Kennedy

1053

(1)

Conclusion

1054

(1)

Suggested Readings

1055

(1)

America during Its Longest War, 1963--1974

1056

(38)

Chronology

1057

(1)

The Great Society

1057

(6)

Closing the New Frontier

1058

(1)

The Election of 1964

1059

(2)

Lyndon Johnson's Great Society

1061

(1)

Evaluating the Great Society

1062

(1)

Escalation in Vietnam

1063

(5)

The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

1063

(2)

The War Widens

1065

(1)

The Media and the War

1066

(2)

The War at Home

1068

(4)

A New Left

1068

(2)

The Counterculture

1070

(1)

From Civil Rights to Black Power

1071

(1)

History Through Film: Malcolm X

1072

(6)

1968: The Violence Overseas

1074

(1)

1968: The Violence at Home

1075

(1)

The Election of 1968

1076

(2)

The Nixon Years, 1969--1974

1078

(6)

The Economy

1078

(1)

Social Policy

1079

(1)

Environmentalism

1080

(1)

Controversies over Rights

1081

(3)

Foreign Policy under Nixon and Kissinger

1084

(4)

Detente

1084

(1)

Vietnamization

1085

(2)

The Aftermath of War

1087

(1)

Expanding the Nixon Doctrine

1087

(1)

The Wars of Watergate

1088

(4)

The Election of 1972

1089

(1)

Nixon Pursued

1090

(1)

Nixon's Final Days

1091

(1)

Conclusion

1092

(1)

Suggested Readings

1093

(1)

Economic and Social Change in the Late 20th Century

1094

(40)

A Changing People

1094

(1)

An Aging Population

1094

(1)

Chronology

1095

(7)

The Rise of the Sunbelt

1096

(1)

New Immigration

1097

(3)

Urbanization and Suburbanization

1100

(2)

Economic Transformations

1102

(6)

New Technologies

1103

(1)

Big Business

1104

(2)

Postindustrial Restructuring

1106

(2)

Media and Culture

1108

(5)

The Video Revolution

1108

(2)

The ``New Hollywood''

1110

(1)

The Changing Media Environment

1111

(1)

The New Mass Culture Debate

1112

(1)

Social Activism

1113

(5)

Women's Issues

1114

(2)

Sexual Politics

1116

(2)

Race, Ethnicity, and Social Activism

1118

(10)

African American Activism

1119

(2)

American Indian Activism

1121

(2)

Activism in Spanish-Speaking Communities

1123

(2)

Asian American Activism

1125

(2)

The Dilemmas of Antidiscrimination Efforts

1127

(1)

The New Right

1128

(4)

New Conservative Institutions

1128

(1)

The New Religious Right

1129

(1)

The New Right's Agenda

1130

(2)

Conclusion

1132

(1)

Suggested Readings

1133

(1)

Power and Politics since 1974

1134

(44)

Chronology

1135

(1)

The Caretaker Presidency of Gerald Ford (1974--1977)

1136

(2)

Trying to Whip Stagflation

1136

(1)

Foreign Policy

1137

(1)

The Election of 1976

1137

(1)

Jimmy Carter's One-term Presidency (1977--1981)

1138

(7)

Welfare and Energy Initiatives

1138

(2)

A Faltering Economy

1140

(1)

Negotiating Foreign Disputes

1141

(1)

Campaigning for Human Rights Abroad

1142

(1)

Confronting Problems in Iran and Afghanistan

1143

(1)

The Election of 1980

1143

(2)

Ronald Reagan's ``New Morning in America'' (1981--1989)

1145

(5)

Pursuing Supply-Side Economics

1145

(2)

Broadening the New Right Agenda

1147

(2)

Routing the Democrats, 1984

1149

(1)

History Through Film: The First Movie-Star President

1150

(2)

Reagan's Second Term

1150

(2)

Renewing the Cold War

1152

(4)

The Defense Buildup

1153

(1)

Deploying Military Power

1154

(1)

The Iran-Contra Controversy

1155

(1)

The Beginning of the End of the Cold War

1156

(1)

The First Bush Presidency (1989--1993)

1156

(6)

The Election of 1988

1157

(1)

The End of the Cold War

1158

(2)

The Persian Gulf War

1160

(1)

The Election of 1992

1161

(1)

The Presidency of Bill Clinton (1993--2001)

1162

(9)

Clinton's First Two Years

1163

(1)

A Republican Congress, a Democratic White House

1164

(2)

Victory and Impeachment

1166

(2)

Environmental Policy

1168

(1)

Post--Cold War Foreign Policy

1169

(2)

Globalization

1171

(1)

The Presidency of George W. Bush (2001--)

1171

(7)

The Long Election

1172

(1)

A Conservative Domestic Agenda

1173

(1)

Foreign Policy Changes Course

1174

(3)

Bush Wins Reelection

1177

(1)

Conclusion

1178

(1)

Suggested Readings

1179

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