Cengage Advantage Books: Liberty, Equality, Power A History of the American People, Volume II: Since 1863, 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 CENGAGE ADVANTAGE BOOKS: LIBERTY, EQUALITY, AND POWER, VOLUME II SINCE 1863, COMPACT! 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

xxiii

History Through Film

xxiii

To the Student: Why Study History?

xxv

Preface

xxvii

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 Management on 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

(45)

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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