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Focusing on the Constitution and how it was tested during the Civil War, this review also explores industrialization of the United States, the Great Depression, the New Deal, the Cold War, and the state of the nation through the end of the Clinton administration.

Acknowledgments

ii

Preface

viii

UNIT 1 Constitutional Foundations of the United States

1

(112)

The Constitution Formed

3

(88)

Foundations, Revolution, and Confederation

3

(37)

Constitutional Convension, Ratification, and a Bill of Rights

40

(15)

Constitutional Structure, Function, and Thirteen Enduring Issues

55

(17)

Launching a New Government

72

(19)

The Constitution Tested

91

(22)

Constitutional Stress and Crisis

91

(13)

The Constitution in Jeopardy: The American Civil War

104

(9)

UNIT 2 Industrialization of the United States

113

(90)

The Reconstructed Nation

115

(22)

Reconstruction and the Nationalization of Civil Rights

115

(6)

Post-Civil War Economics

121

(5)

Emancipation: An Unsettled Issue

126

(5)

The End of Reconstruction

131

(6)

The Rise of American Business and Labor (1865--1920)

137

(33)

Technology and World Industrialism

137

(4)

Pre-Civil War Industrial Growth

141

(3)

Business Organization: Size and Structure

144

(3)

Transportation, Communication, and Resources

147

(4)

Representative Entrepreneurs

151

(3)

Business and Government

154

(6)

Labor Organization and Struggle

160

(10)

Transformation of American Society

170

(33)

Impact of Industrialism

170

(9)

Nation of Immigrants

179

(9)

The Last Frontier

188

(10)

American Society at the Turn of the Century

198

(5)

UNIT 3 The Progressive Movement

203

(56)

Reform in America

205

(20)

The Reform Tradition

205

(3)

Pressure for Reform

208

(6)

Progressivism and Government Action

214

(11)

America Reaching Out

225

(34)

The Industrial-Colonial Connection

225

(4)

An Emerging Global Involvement

229

(12)

Restraint and Involvement (1914-1920)

241

(5)

The Constitution and World War I

246

(5)

The Search for Peace and Arms Control (1914-1930)

251

(8)

UNIT 4 Prosperity and Depression (1917-1940)

259

(56)

War Economy and the Prosperity of the Twenties

261

(28)

The First World War at Home

261

(6)

The Twenties: Business Boom or False Prosperity?

267

(7)

Optimism and Materialism

274

(15)

The Great Depression and the New Deal (1933--1940)

289

(26)

Failure of the Old Order: Hoover and the Crash

289

(4)

Franklin D. Roosevelt: Relief, Recovery, and Reform

293

(8)

Constitutional Issues and the New Deal

301

(5)

The Human Factor

306

(9)

UNIT 5 The United States in an Age of Global Crisis

315

(52)

Diplomacy and War (1933--1945)

317

(29)

Isolation and Neutrality

317

(5)

Failure of Peace: Triumph of Aggression

322

(6)

Home Front: The Human Dimensions of the War

328

(6)

The United States in World War II

334

(5)

Aftermath of World War II

339

(7)

Peace with Problems (1945--1960)

346

(21)

International Peace Efforts

346

(4)

Communist Expansion and Containment in Europe and Asia

350

(9)

Internal Security and Constitutionalism

359

(8)

UNIT 6 A World in Uncertain Times (1950--Present)

367

(143)

Technology and Interdependence: Living in a Global Age

369

(14)

United States and Post-Industrialism

369

(5)

The World and Post-Industrialism

374

(9)

Containment and Consensus (1945--1960)

383

(21)

Eisenhower Policies: Foreign Affairs

383

(7)

Eisenhower Domestic Developments

390

(3)

The Warren Court and Civil Rights

393

(4)

The Affluent Society

397

(7)

Decade of Change (The 1960s)

404

(37)

The Kennedy Years: The New Frontier

404

(5)

Action in Foreign Policies

409

(6)

Movement for the Rights of the Disabled

415

(6)

Johnson and the Great Society

421

(6)

The Movement for Equal Rights

427

(14)

The Limits of Power: Turmoil at Home and Abroad

441

(17)

The Vietnam War

441

(10)

Protest and the Counterculture

451

(7)

The Trend Toward Conservatism (1972--1992)

458

(46)

Nixon and the Imperial Presidency

458

(11)

The Ford and Carter Presidencies

469

(11)

The Reagan Era

480

(14)

President George Bush

494

(10)

The Clinton Administration

504

(6)

The Election of 1992

504

(2)

President Bill Clinton

506

(4)

Appendix A HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS

510

(30)

The Declaration of Independence

511

(4)

Outline of the Constitution

515

(5)

The Constitution

520

(20)

Appendix B CHRONOLOGY OF MAJOR EVENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY

540

(12)

Appendix C NOTABLE AMERICANS

552

(8)

Appendix D QUOTATIONS

560

(18)

Answer Key

578

(8)

Glossary of Terms

586

(21)

Regents Examinations

607

(48)

Answers to Regents Examinations

655

(1)

Index

656

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