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American Nation, The: A History of the United States Since 1865, Volume II, Primary Source Edit...

by: Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

ISBN: 9780205556724 | 0205556728

Edition: 12th
Format: Package
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 1/1/2006

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Summary Table of Contents

The Primary Source Edition of The American Nation shows how the political history of the United States is intimately tied to the social, economic and cultural development of the nation. The Primary Source Edition utilizes primary sources, along with critical thinking questions for each, to immerse the reader in the unfolding story of America. Co-authors Mark Carnes and John Garraty explore the relationship between these various histories and show how it took the voices and actions of many peoples to produce this singular political structure - T... MORE

Additional Primary Source Documents can be found at the end of this Table of Contents. Detailed Contents. Maps and Graphics. Features. American Lives. Re-Viewing the Past. Mapping the Past. Debating the Past. Preface. About the Authors. Prologue: Beginnings. 16. Reconstruction and the South. Presidential Reconstruction. Republican Radicals. Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction. The Fourteenth Amendment. The Reconstruction Acts. Congress Supreme. The Fifteenth Amendment. Black Republican Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers. The Rav... MOREaged Land. Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System. The White Backlash. Grant as President. The Disputed Election of 1876. The Compromise of 1877. Mapping the Past. The Politics of Reconstruction. Debating The Past. Were Reconstruction governments corrupt? 17. In the Wake of War. Congress Ascendant. The Political Aftermath of War. Blacks After Reconstruction. Booker T. Washington: A Reasonable Champion for Blacks. White Violence and Vengeance. The West After the Civil War. The Plains Indians. Indian Wars. The Destruction of Tribal Life. The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West. Big Business and the Land Bonanza. Western Railroad Building. The Cattle Kingdom. Open-Range Ranching. Barbed-Wire Warfare. American Lives. Nat Love. Debating The Past. Was the frontier exceptionally violent? 18. An Industrial Giant. Essentials of Industrial Growth. Railroads: The First Big Business. Iron, Oil, and Electricity. Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads. Competition and Monopoly: Steel. Competition and Monopoly: Oil. Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities. American Ambivalence to Big Business. Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd. Reformers: The Marxists. The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation. The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act. The Labor Union Movement. The American Federation of Labor. Labor Militancy Rebuffed. Whither America, Whither Democracy? Mapping the Past. Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth? Debating the Past. Were the industrialists robber barons or savvy entrepreneurs? 19. American Society in the Industrial Age. Middle-Class Life. Skilled and Unskilled Workers. Working Women. Farmers. Working-Class Family Life. Working-Class Attitudes. Working Your Way Up. The New Immigration. New Immigrants Face New Nativism. The Expanding City and Its Problems. Teeming Tenements. The Cities Modernize. Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games. Christianitys Conscience and the Social Gospel. The Settlement Houses. Civilization and Its Discontents. Mapping The Past. Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation. Debating The Past. Did immigrants assimilate? 20. Intellectual and Cultural Trends. The Knowledge Revolution. Magazine Journalism. Colleges and Universities. Revolution in the Social Sciences. Progressive Education. Law and History. Realism in Literature. Mark Twain. William Dean Howells. Henry James. Realism in Art. The Pragmatic Approach. Re-Viewing the Past. Titanic. Debating The Past. Di

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