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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 -... MORE

Maps and Graphs	p. xxiii
Features	p. xxv
American Lives
Re-Viewing the Past
Mapping the Past
Debating the Past
Preface	p. xxvii
About the Authors	p. xxxiii
Reconstruction and the South	p. 424
Presidential Reconstruction	p. 425
Republican Radicals	p. 427
Co... MORE	p. 428
The Fourteenth Amendment	p. 430
The Reconstruction Acts	p. 430
Congress Supreme	p. 431
The Fifteenth Amendment	p. 431
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	p. 435
The Ravaged Land	p. 436
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	p. 438
The White Backlash	p. 440
Grant as President	p. 441
The Disputed Election of 1876	p. 442
The Compromise of 1877	p. 443
Mapping the Past: The Politics of Reconstruction	p. 432
Debating the Past: Were Reconstruction governments corrupt?	p. 434
In the Wake of War	p. 446
Congress Ascendant	p. 447
The Political Aftermath of War	p. 449
Blacks After Reconstruction	p. 451
Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks	p. 452
White Violence and Vengeance	p. 454
The West After the Civil War	p. 454
The Plains Indians	p. 456
Indian Wars	p. 458
The Destruction of Tribal Life	p. 460
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West	p. 463
Big Business and the Land Bonanza	p. 465
Western Railroad Building	p. 466
The Cattle Kingdom	p. 468
Open-Range Ranching	p. 469
Barbed-Wire Warfare	p. 472
American Lives Nat Love	p. 470
Debating the Past: Was the frontier exceptionally violent?	p. 455
An Industrial Giant	p. 476
Essentials of Industrial Growth	p. 477
Railroads: The First Big Business	p. 478
Iron, Oil, and Electricity	p. 481
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads	p. 485
Competition and Monopoly: Steel	p. 486
Competition and Monopoly: Oil	p. 487
Competition and Monopoly: Retailing and Utilities	p. 490
American Ambivalence to Big Business	p. 490
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd	p. 493
Reformers: The Marxists	p. 494
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation	p. 494
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act	p. 495
The Labor Union Movement	p. 496
The American Federation of Labor	p. 497
Labor Militancy Rebuffed	p. 498
Whither America, Whither Democracy?	p. 500
Mapping the Past: Were the Railroads Indispensable to Economic Growth?	p. 482
Debating the Past: Were the industrialists "robber barons" or savvy entrepreneurs?	p. 492
American Society in the Industrial Age	p. 502
Middle-Class Life	p. 503
Skilled and Unskilled Workers	p. 505
Working Women	p. 505
Farmers	p. 506
Working-Class Family Life	p. 507
Working-Class Attitudes	p. 507
Working Your Way Up	p. 508
The "New" Immigration	p. 509
New Immigrants Face New Nativism	p. 510
The Expanding City and Its Problems	p. 512
Teeming Tenements	p. 514
The Cities Modernize	p. 515
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games	p. 519
Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel	p. 522
The Settlement Houses	p. 524
Civilization and Its Discontents	p. 525
Mapping the Past: Cholera: A New Disease Strikes the Nation	p. 516
Debating the Past: Did immigrants assimilate?	p. 513
Intellectual and Cultural Trends	p. 528
The Knowledge Revolution	p. 529
Magazine Journalism	p. 531
Colleges and Universities	p. 532
Revolution in the Social Sciences	p. 534
Progressive Education	p. 536
Law and History	p. 536
Realism in Literature	p. 538
Mark Twain	p. 539
William Dean Howells	p. 540
Henry James	p. 544
Realism in Art	p. 544
The Pragmatic Approach	p. 546
Re-Viewing the Past: Titanic	p. 544
Debating the Past: Did the frontier engender individualism and democracy?	p. 537
Politics: Local, State, and National	p. 550
Political Strategy and Tactics	p. 551
Voting Along Ethnic and Religious Lines	p. 552
City Bosses	p. 552
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issue	p. 554
Lackluster Leaders	p. 555
Crops and Complaints	p. 559
The Populist Movement	p. 560
Showdown on Silver	p. 563
The Depression of 1893	p. 563
The Election of 1896	p. 565
The Meaning of the Election	p. 569
Mapping the Past: The Election of 1896	p. 566
Debating the Past: Were city governments corrupt and incompetent?	p. 553
The Age of Reform	p. 572
Roots of Progressivism	p. 573
The Muckrakers	p. 575
The Progressive Mind	p. 576
"Radical" Progressives: The Wave of the Future	p. 576
Political Reform: Cities First	p. 580
Political Reform: The States	p. 581
State Social Legislation	p. 581
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement	p. 583
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators	p. 586
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House	p. 856
Roosevelt and Big Business	p. 588
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike	p. 589
TR's Triumphs	p. 591
Roosevelt Tilts Left	p. 591
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less	p. 592
Breakup of the Republican Party	p. 593
The Election of 1912	p. 594
Wilson: The New Freedom	p. 595
The Progressives and Minority Rights	p. 596
Black Militancy	p. 598
American Lives: Emma Goldman	p. 578
Debating the Past: Were the progressives forward-looking?	p. 589
From Isolation to Empire	p. 602
Isolation or Imperialism?	p. 603
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies	p. 604
Toward an Empire in the Pacific	p. 606
Toward an Empire in Latin America	p. 608
The Cuban Revolution	p. 609
The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War	p. 612
Developing a Colonial Policy	p. 614
The Anti-Imperialists	p. 615
The Philippine Insurrection	p. 616
Cuba and the United States	p. 616
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America	p. 620
The Open Door Policy	p. 621
The Panama Canal	p. 622
Imperialism Without Colonies	p. 625
American Lives: Frederick Funston	p. 618
Debating the Past: Did the United States acquire an overseas empire for economic reasons?	p. 605
Woodrow Wilson and the Great War	p. 628
Wilson's "Moral" Diplomacy	p. 629
Europe Explodes in War	p. 631
Freedom of the Seas	p. 632
The Election of 1916	p. 634
The Road to War	p. 635
Mobilizing the Economy	p. 636
Workers in Wartime	p. 640
Paying for the War	p. 641
Propaganda and Civil Liberties	p. 641
Wartime Reforms	p. 643
Women and Blacks in Wartime	p. 643
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top	p. 646
Preparing for Peace	p. 647
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty	p. 649
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations	p. 651
Demobilization	p. 653
The Red Scare	p. 654
The Election of 1920	p. 655
American Lives: Harry S Truman	p. 638
Debating the Past: Did a stroke sway Wilson's judgment?	p. 652
Postwar Society and Culture: Change and Adjustment	p. 658
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants	p. 659
New Urban Social Patterns	p. 660
The Younger Generation	p. 661
The "New" Woman	p. 665
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio	p. 666
The Golden Age of Sports	p. 669
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism	p. 670
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition	p. 672
The Ku Klux Klan	p. 674
Sacco and Vanzetti	p. 675
Literary Trends	p. 675
The "New Negro"	p. 678
Economic Expansion	p. 680
The Age of the Consumer	p. 681
Henry Ford	p. 682
The Airplane	p. 682
Re-Viewing the Past: Chicago	p. 662
Debating the Past: Was the decade of the 1920s one of self-absorption?	p. 667
The New Era: 1921-1933	p. 686
Harding and "Normalcy"	p. 688
"The Business of the United States Is Business"	p. 688
The Harding Scandals	p. 689
Coolidge Prosperity	p. 690
Peace Without a Sword	p. 691
The Peace Movement	p. 693
The Good Neighbor Policy	p. 693
The Totalitarian Challenge	p. 694
War Debts and Reparations	p. 695
The Election of 1928	p. 695
Economic Problems	p. 699
The Stock Market Crash of 1929	p. 699
Hoover and the Depression	p. 700
The Economy Hits Bottom	p. 704
The Depression and Its Victims	p. 705
The Election of 1932	p. 706
Mapping the Past: FDR's Political Revolution	p. 696
Debating the Past: What caused the Great Depression?	p. 703
The New Deal: 1933-1941	p. 710
The Hundred Days	p. 711
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)	p. 713
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)	p. 714
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)	p. 714
The New Deal Spirit	p. 715
The Unemployed	p. 716
Literature in the Depression	p. 717
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend	p. 718
The Second New Deal	p. 720
The Election of 1936	p. 721
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court	p. 722
The New Deal Winds Down	p. 723
Significance of the New Deal	p. 725
Women as New Dealers: The Network	p. 726
Blacks During the New Deal	p. 727
A New Deal for Indians	p. 728
The Role of Roosevelt	p. 729
The Triumph of Isolationism	p. 730
War Again in Europe	p. 731
A Third Term for FDR	p. 735
The Undeclared War	p. 736
Mapping the Past: Isolationism of the 1930s	p. 732
Debating the Past: Did the New Deal succeed?	p. 724
War and Peace	p. 740
The Road to Pearl Harbor	p. 741
Mobilizing the Home Front	p. 743
The War Economy	p. 743
War and Social Change	p. 745
Minorities in Time of War: Blacks, Hispanics, and Indians	p. 745
The Treatment of German and Italian Americans	p. 747
Internment of the Japanese	p. 747
Women's Contribution to the War Effort	p. 748
Allied Strategy: Europe First	p. 750
Germany Overwhelmed	p. 752
The Naval War in the Pacific	p. 756
Island Hopping	p. 758
Building the Atom Bomb	p. 759
Wartime Diplomacy	p. 761
Allied Suspicion of Stalin	p. 762
Yalta and Potsdam	p. 762
Re-Viewing the Past: Saving Private Ryan	p. 754
Debating the Past: Should the United States have used atomic bombs against Japan?	p. 760
The American Century	p. 766
The Postwar Economy	p. 768
The Containment Policy	p. 769
The Atom Bomb: A "Winning" Weapon?	p. 769
A Turning Point in Greece	p. 770
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History	p. 770
Dealing with Japan and China	p. 773
The Election of 1948	p. 773
Containing Communism Abroad	p. 776
Hot War in Korea	p. 778
The Communist Issue at Home	p. 781
McCarthyism	p. 781
Dwight D. Eisenhower	p. 782
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy	p. 783
McCarthy Self-Destructs	p. 784
Asian Policy After Korea	p. 785
Israel and the Middle East	p. 785
Eisenhower and Khrushchev	p. 786
Latin American Aroused	p. 788
The Politics of Civil Rights	p. 788
The Election of 1960	p. 790
Mapping the Past: Planning Nuclear War	p. 774
Debating the Past: Did Truman needlessly exacerbate relations with the Soviet Union?	p. 777
From Camelot to Watergate	p. 794
The Cuban Crises	p. 796
The Vietnam War	p. 798
"We Shall Overcome": The Civil Rights Movement	p. 799
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated	p. 801
Lyndon Baines Johnson	p. 802
The Great Society	p. 803
Johnson Escalates the War	p. 805
Opposition to the War	p. 808
The Election of 1968	p. 808
Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War	p. 811
The Cambodian "Incursion"	p. 813
Detente with Communism	p. 814
Nixon in Triumph	p. 815
Domestic Policy Under Nixon	p. 816
The Watergate Break-in	p. 817
More Troubles for Nixon	p. 819
The Judgment on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted"	p. 819
The Meaning of Watergate	p. 820
Mapping the Past: School Segregation After the Brown Decision	p. 806
Debating the Past: Would JFK have sent a half-million American troops to Vietnam?	p. 809
Society in Flux	p. 824
A Society on the Move	p. 826
The Advent of Television	p. 826
At Home and Work	p. 827
The Growing Middle Class	p. 829
Religion in Changing Times	p. 829
Literature and Art	p. 831
The Perils of Progress	p. 833
The Costs of Prosperity	p. 835
New Racial Turmoil	p. 835
Native-Born Ethnics	p. 837
Rethinking Public Education	p. 839
Students in Revolt	p. 840
The Counterculture	p. 842
The Sexual Revolution	p. 842
Women's Liberation	p. 844
Mapping the Past: Roe v. Wade (1978) and the Abortion Controversy	p. 846
Debating the Past: Did mass culture make life shallow?	p. 843
Running on Empty: The Nation Transformed	p. 852
The Oil Crisis	p. 854
Ford as President	p. 854
The Fall of South Vietnam	p. 855
Ford Versus Carter	p. 855
The Carter Presidency	p. 856
A National Malaise	p. 856
Stagflation: The Weird Economy	p. 857
Families Under Stress	p. 858
Cold War or Detente?	p. 860
The Iran Crisis: Origins	p. 860
The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma	p. 861
The Election of 1980	p. 862
Reagan as President	p. 863
Four More Years	p. 864
"The Reagan Revolution"	p. 865
Change and Uncertainty	p. 867
AIDS	p. 868
The New Merger Movement	p. 869
"A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home	p. 869
A "Bipolar" Economy, a Fractured Society	p. 872
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal	p. 872
American Lives: Bill Gates	p. 870
Debating the Past: Did Reagan end the Cold War?	p. 866
Misdemeanors and High Crimes	p. 876
The Election of 1988	p. 878
Crime and Punishment	p. 878
"Crack" and Urban Gangs	p. 879
George H. W. Bush as President	p. 879
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe	p. 880
The War in the Persian Gulf	p. 881
The Deficit Worsens	p. 883
Looting the Savings and Loans	p. 883
Whitewater and the Clintons	p. 883
The Election of 1992	p. 884
A New Start: Clinton	p. 884
Emergence of the Republican Majority	p. 885
The Election of 1996	p. 885
A Racial Divide	p. 886
Violence and Popular Culture	p. 887
Clinton Impeached	p. 888
Clinton's Legacy	p. 889
The Economic Boom and the Internet	p. 890
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote	p. 890
Terrorism Intensifies	p. 894
September 11, 2001	p. 894
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan	p. 896
The Second Iraq War	p. 896
The Election of 2004	p. 899
The Imponderable Future	p. 901
Mapping the Past: Twenty Years of Terrorism	p. 892
Debating the Past: Do historians ever get it right?	p. 900
Appendix	p. A1
The Declaration of Independence	p. A3
The Articles of Confederation	p. A5
The Constitution of the United States of America	p. A9
Amendments to the Constitution	p. A14
Presidential Elections, 1789-2004	p. A19
Present-day United States	p. A32
Present-day World	p. A34
Picture Credits	p. C1
Index	p. I1
Primary Source Documents	p. D1
How to Analyze Primary Source Documents	p. D3
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