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The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume
The American Promise: A Concise History, Combined Volume
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9780312666767
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0312666764
- Edition: 5th
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 08/15/2013
- Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
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Summary
The American Promise: A Concise History is a brief, inexpensive narrative with a clear political, chronological narrative that makes teaching and learning American history a snap. Streamlined by the authors themselves to create a truly concise book, the fifth edition is nearly 15 percent shorter than the fourth compact edition, yet it includes more primary sources than ever—including a new visual sources feature. It is also enhanced by LearningCurve, our easy-to-assign adaptive learning system that will ensure students come to class prepared. What's in the LaunchPad
Author Biography
Read moreJAMES L. ROARK
Born in Eunice, Louisiana, and raised in the West, James L. Roark received his B.A. from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize. Since 1983, he has taught at Emory University, where he is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977). With Michael P. Johnson, he is author of Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984) and editor of No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984). MICHAEL P. JOHNSON
Born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Michael P. Johnson studied at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received a B.A., and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he earned his Ph.D. He is currently professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books, including Reading the American Past, the documents reader designed to accompany The American Promise. His research has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanties, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavoral Sciences, and the Huntington Library, and with prizes from the Organization of American Historians and the Omohundro Insttute of Early American History and Culture. He is also the recipient of university prizes for outstanding undergraduate teaching. PATRICIA CLINE COHEN
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Palo Alto, California, Patricia Cline Cohen earned a B.A. at the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976, she joined the history faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2005–2006 she received the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Cohen has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1982; reissued 1999) and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (1998). She is coauthor of The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008). In 2001–2002 she was the Distinguished Senior Mellon Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. SARAH STAGE
Sarah Stage was born in Davenport, Iowa, and received a B.A. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has taught U.S. history for more than twenty-five years at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University at the West campus in Phoenix. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine (1979) and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (1997). She recently returned from China where she had an appointment as visiting scholar at Peking University and Sichuan University. SUSAN M. HARTMANN
Susan M. Hartmann received her B.A. from Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. A specialist in modern U.S. history and women’s history, she has published many articles and four books: Truman and the 80th Congress (1971); The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982); From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960 (1989); and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment (1998). She is currently Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University and recently was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Born in Eunice, Louisiana, and raised in the West, James L. Roark received his B.A. from the University of California, Davis, and his Ph.D. from Stanford University. His dissertation won the Allan Nevins Prize. Since 1983, he has taught at Emory University, where he is Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of American History. In 1993, he received the Emory Williams Distinguished Teaching Award, and in 2001–2002 he was Pitt Professor of American Institutions at Cambridge University. He has written Masters without Slaves: Southern Planters in the Civil War and Reconstruction (1977). With Michael P. Johnson, he is author of Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South (1984) and editor of No Chariot Let Down: Charleston’s Free People of Color on the Eve of the Civil War (1984). MICHAEL P. JOHNSON
Born and raised in Ponca City, Oklahoma, Michael P. Johnson studied at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, where he received a B.A., and at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, where he earned his Ph.D. He is currently professor of history at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. He is the author, co-author, or editor of six books, including Reading the American Past, the documents reader designed to accompany The American Promise. His research has been honored with fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanties, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavoral Sciences, and the Huntington Library, and with prizes from the Organization of American Historians and the Omohundro Insttute of Early American History and Culture. He is also the recipient of university prizes for outstanding undergraduate teaching. PATRICIA CLINE COHEN
Born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and raised in Palo Alto, California, Patricia Cline Cohen earned a B.A. at the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1976, she joined the history faculty at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 2005–2006 she received the university’s Distinguished Teaching Award. Cohen has written A Calculating People: The Spread of Numeracy in Early America (1982; reissued 1999) and The Murder of Helen Jewett: The Life and Death of a Prostitute in Nineteenth-Century New York (1998). She is coauthor of The Flash Press: Sporting Male Weeklies in 1840s New York (2008). In 2001–2002 she was the Distinguished Senior Mellon Fellow at the American Antiquarian Society. SARAH STAGE
Sarah Stage was born in Davenport, Iowa, and received a B.A. from the University of Iowa and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. She has taught U.S. history for more than twenty-five years at Williams College and the University of California, Riverside. Currently she is professor of Women’s Studies at Arizona State University at the West campus in Phoenix. Her books include Female Complaints: Lydia Pinkham and the Business of Women’s Medicine (1979) and Rethinking Home Economics: Women and the History of a Profession (1997). She recently returned from China where she had an appointment as visiting scholar at Peking University and Sichuan University. SUSAN M. HARTMANN
Susan M. Hartmann received her B.A. from Washington University and her Ph.D. from the University of Missouri. A specialist in modern U.S. history and women’s history, she has published many articles and four books: Truman and the 80th Congress (1971); The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s (1982); From Margin to Mainstream: American Women and Politics since 1960 (1989); and The Other Feminists: Activists in the Liberal Establishment (1998). She is currently Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of History at Ohio State University and recently was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Table of Contents
Read more1. Ancient America, Before 1492Archaeology and HistoryThe First Americans African and Asian Origins Paleo-Indian HuntersArchaic Hunters and Gatherers Great Plains Bison Hunters Great Basin Cultures Pacific Coast Cultures Eastern Woodland CulturesAgricultural Settlements and Chiefdoms Southwestern Cultures VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Daily Life in Chaco Canyon" Woodland Burial Mounds and ChiefdomsNative Americans in the 1490s Eastern and Great Plains Peoples Southwestern and Western Peoples Cultural SimilaritiesThe Mexica: A Mesoamerican CultureConclusion: The World of Ancient AmericansChapter Review—LearningCurve2. Europeans Encounter the New World, 1492–1600Europe in the Age of Exploration Mediterranean Trade and European Expansion A Century of Portuguese ExplorationA Surprising New World in the Western Atlantic The Explorations of Columbus The Geographic Revolution and the Columbian ExchangeSpanish Exploration and Conquest The Conquest of Mexico The Search for Other Mexicos Spanish Outposts in Florida and New Mexico New Spain in the Sixteenth Century DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Justifying Conquest" The Toll of Spanish Conquest and ColonizationThe New World and Sixteenth-Century Europe The Protestant Reformation and the Spanish Response Europe and The Spanish ExampleConclusion: The promise of the new world for europeansChapter Review—LearningCurve3. The Southern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700An English Colony on Chesapeake Bay The Fragile Jamestown Settlement Cooperation and Conflict between Natives and Newcomers From Private Company to Royal GovernmentA Tobacco Society BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "American Tobacco and European Consumers" Tobacco Agriculture A Servant Labor System The Rigors of Servitude Cultivating Land and FaithHierarchy and Inequality in the Chesapeake Social and Economic Polarization Government Policies and Political Conflict Bacon’s RebellionToward a Slave Labor System Religion and Revolt in the Spanish Borderland The West Indies: Sugar and Slavery Carolina: A West Indian Frontier Slave Labor Emerges in the ChesapeakeConclusion: The Growth of English Colonies Based on Export Crops and Slave LaborChapter Review—LearningCurve4. The Northern Colonies in the Seventeenth Century, 1601–1700Puritans and the Settlement of New England Puritan Origins: The English Reformation The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony The Founding of Massachusetts Bay ColonyThe Evolution of New England Society Church, Covenant, and Conformity Government by Puritans for Puritanism The Splintering of Puritanism Religious Controversies and Economic Changes DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Hunting Witches in Salem, Massachusetts"The Founding of the Middle Colonies From New Netherland to New York New Jersey and Pennsylvania Toleration and Diversity in PennsylvaniaThe Colonies and the English Empire Royal Regulation of Colonial Trade King Philip’s War and the Consolidation of Royal AuthorityConclusion: An English Model of Colonization in North AmericaChapter Review—LearningCurve5. Colonial America in the Eighteenth Century, 1701–1770 A Growing Population and Expanding Economy in British North AmericaNew England: From Puritan Settlers to Yankee Traders Natural Increase and Land Distribution Farms, Fish, and Atlantic TradeThe Middle Colonies: Immigrants, Wheat, and Work German and Scots-Irish Immigrants "God Gives All Things to Industry": Urban and Rural LaborThe Southern Colonies: Land of Slavery The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Growth of Slavery Slave Labor and African American Culture Tobacco, Rice, and ProsperityUnifying Experiences Commerce and Consumption Religion, Enlightenment, and Revival Trade and Conflict in the North American Borderlands DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Spanish Priests Report on California Missions" Colonial Politics in the British EmpireConclusion: The Dual Identity of British North American ColonistsChapter Review—LearningCurve6. The British Empire and the Colonial Crisis, 1754–1775The Seven Years’ War, 1754–1763 French-British Rivalry in the Ohio Country The Albany Congress VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Cross-Dressing in Eighteenth-Century Portraits" The War and Its Consequences Pontiac’s Rebellion and the Proclamation of 1763The Sugar and Stamp Acts, 1763–1765 Grenville’s Sugar Act The Stamp Act Resistance Strategies and Crowd Politics Liberty and PropertyThe Townshend Acts and Economic Retaliation, 1767–1770 The Townshend Duties Nonconsumption and the Daughters of Liberty Military Occupation and "Massacre" in BostonThe Destruction of the Tea and the Coercive Acts, 1770–1774 The Calm before the Storm Tea in Boston Harbor The Coercive Acts Beyond Boston: Rural New England The First Continental CongressDomestic Insurrections, 1774–1775 Lexington and Concord Rebelling against SlaveryConclusion: The Long Road to RevolutionChapter Review—LearningCurve7. The War for America, 1775–1783The Second Continental Congress Assuming Political and Military Authority Pursuing Both War and Peace Thomas Paine, Abigail Adams, and the Case for Independence The Declaration of IndependenceThe First Year of War, 1775–1776 The American Military Forces The British Strategy Quebec, New York, and New JerseyThe Home Front Patriotism at the Local Level The Loyalists DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Families Divide over the Revolution" Who Is a Traitor? Prisoners of War Financial Instability and CorruptionThe Campaigns of 1777–1779: The North and West Burgoyne’s Army and the Battle of Saratoga The War in the West: Indian Country The French AllianceThe Southern Strategy and the End of the War Georgia and South Carolina Treason and Guerrilla Warfare Surrender at Yorktown The Losers and the WinnersConclusion: Why the British LostChapter Review—LearningCurve8. Building a Republic, 1775–1789The Articles of Confederation Congress and Confederation The Problem of Western Lands Running the New GovernmentThe Sovereign States The State Constitutions Who Are "the People"? Equality and Slavery DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Blacks Petition for Freedom and Rights"The Confederation’s Problems The War Debt and the Newburgh Conspiracy The Treaty of Fort Stanwix Land Ordinances and the Northwest Territory The Requisition of 1785 and Shays’s Rebellion, 1786–1787The United States Constitution From Annapolis to Philadelphia The Virginia and New Jersey Plans Democracy versus RepublicanismRatification of the Constitution The Federalists The Antifederalists The Big Holdouts: Virginia and New YorkConclusion: The "Republican Remedy’Chapter Review—LearningCurve9. The New Nation Takes Form, 1789–1800The Search for Stability Washington Inaugurates the Government The Bill of Rights The Republican Wife and MotherHamilton’s Economic Policies Agriculture, Transportation, and Banking The Public Debt and Taxes The First Bank of the United States and the Report on Manufactures The Whiskey RebellionConflicts on America’s Borders and Beyond Creeks in the Southwest Ohio Indians in the Northwest France and Britain BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "France, Britain, and Woman’s Rights in the 1790s" The Haitian RevolutionFederalists and Republicans The Election of 1796 The XYZ Affair The Alien and Sedition ActsConclusion: Parties NonethelessChapter Review—LearningCurve10. Republicans in Power, 1800–1824Jefferson’s Presidency Turbulent Times: Election and Rebellion The Jeffersonian Vision of Republican Simplicity Dangers Overseas: The Barbary WarsOpportunities and Challenges in the West The Louisiana Purchase The Lewis and Clark Expedition VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Cultural Exchange on the Lewis and Clark Trail" Osage and Comanche IndiansJefferson, the Madisons, and the War of 1812 Impressment and Embargo Dolley Madison and Social Politics Tecumseh and Tippecanoe The War of 1812 Washington City Burns: The British OffensiveWomen’s Status in the Early Republic Women and the Law Women and Church Governance Female EducationMonroe and Adams From Property to Democracy The Missouri Compromise The Monroe Doctrine The Election of 1824 The Adams AdministrationConclusion: Republican Simplicity Becomes ComplexChapter Review—LearningCurve11. The Expanding Republic, 1815–1840The Market Revolution Improvements in Transportation Factories, Workingwomen, and Wage Labor DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Mill Girls Stand Up to Factory Owners, 1834" Bankers and Lawyers Booms and BustsThe Spread of Democracy Popular Politics and Partisan Identity The Election of 1828 and the Character Issue Jackson’s Democratic AgendaJackson Defines the Democratic Party Indian Policy and the Trail of Tears The Tariff of Abominations and Nullification The Bank War and Economic BoomCultural Shifts, Religion, and Reform The Family and Separate Spheres The Education and Training of Youths The Second Great Awakening The Temperance Movement and the Campaign for Moral Reform Organizing against SlaveryVan Buren’s One-Term Presidency The Politics of Slavery Elections and PanicsConclusion: The Age of Jackson or the Era of Reform?Chapter Review—LearningCurve12. The New West and the Free North, 1840–1860Economic and Industrial Evolution Agriculture and Land Policy Manufacturing and Mechanization Railroads: Breaking the Bonds of Nature VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Path of Progress"Free Labor: Promise and Reality The Free-Labor Ideal Economic Inequality Immigrants and the Free-Labor LadderThe Westward Movement Manifest Destiny Oregon and the Overland Trail The Mormon Exodus The Mexican BorderlandsExpansion and the Mexican-American War The Politics of Expansion The Mexican-American War, 1846–1848 Victory in Mexico Golden CaliforniaReforming Self and Society The Pursuit of Perfection: Transcendentalists and Utopians Woman’s Rights Activists Abolitionists and the American IdealConclusion: Free Labor, Free MenChapter Review—LearningCurve13. The Slave South, 1820–1860 The Growing Distinctiveness of the South Cotton Kingdom, Slave Empire The South in Black and White DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Defending Slavery" The Plantation EconomyMasters and Mistresses in the Big House Paternalism and Male Honor The Southern Lady and Feminine VirtuesSlaves in the Quarter Work Family and Religion Resistance and RebellionThe Plain Folk Plantation Belt Yeomen Upcountry Yeomen Poor Whites The Culture of the Plain FolkBlack and Free: On the Middle Ground Precarious Freedom Achievement despite Restrictions The Politics of Slavery The Democratization of the Political Arena Planter PowerConclusion: A Slave SocietyChapter Review—LearningCurve14. The House Divided, 1846–1861The Bitter Fruits of War The Wilmot Proviso and the Expansion of Slavery The Election of 1848 Debate and CompromiseThe Sectional Balance Undone The Fugitive Slave Act Uncle Tom’s Cabin The Kansas-Nebraska Act BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Filibusters: The Underside of Manifest Destiny"Realignment of the Party System The Old Parties: Whigs and Democrats The New Parties: Know-Nothings and Republicans The Election of 1856Freedom under Siege "Bleeding Kansas" The Dred Scott Decision Prairie Republican: Abraham Lincoln The Lincoln-Douglas DebatesThe Union Collapses The Aftermath of John Brown’s Raid Republican Victory in 1860 Secession WinterConclusion: Slavery, Free Labor, and the Failure of Political CompromiseChapter Review—LearningCurve15. The Crucible of War, 1861–1865"And the War Came" Attack on Fort Sumter The Upper South Chooses SidesThe Combatants How They Expected to Win Lincoln and Davis MobilizeBattling It Out, 1861–1862 Stalemate in the Eastern Theater Union Victories in the Western Theater The Atlantic Theater International DiplomacyUnion and Freedom From Slaves to Contraband From Contraband to Free People The War of Black LiberationThe South at War Revolution from Above Hardship Below DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Home and Country" The Disintegration of SlaveryThe North at War The Government and the Economy Women and Work at Home and at War Politics and DissentGrinding Out Victory, 1863–1865 Vicksburg and Gettysburg Grant Takes Command The Election of 1864 The Confederacy CollapsesConclusion: The Second American RevolutionChapter Review—LearningCurve16. Reconstruction, 1863–1877Wartime Reconstruction "To Bind Up the Nation’s Wounds" Land and Labor The African American Quest for Autonomy DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Meaning of Freedom"Presidential Reconstruction Johnson’s Program of Reconciliation White Southern Resistance and Black Codes Expansion of Federal Authority and Black RightsCongressional Reconstruction The Fourteenth Amendment and Escalating Violence Radical Reconstruction and Military Rule Impeaching a President The Fifteenth Amendment and Women’s DemandsThe Struggle in the South Freedmen, Yankees, and Yeomen Republican Rule White Landlords, Black SharecroppersReconstruction Collapses Grant’s Troubled Presidency Northern Resolve Withers White Supremacy Triumphs An Election and a CompromiseConclusion: "A Revolution But Half Accomplished"Chapter Review—LearningCurve17. The Contested West, 1865–1900Conquest and Empire in the West BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Imperialism, Colonialism, and the Treatment of the Sioux and the Zulu" Indian Removal and the Reservation System The Decimation of the Great Bison Herds Indian Wars and the Collapse of Comanchería The Fight for the Black HillsForced Assimilation and Indian Resistance Indian Schools and the War against Indian Culture The Dawes Act and Indian Land Allotment Indian Resistance and SurvivalMining the West Life on the Comstock Lode The Diverse Peoples of the WestLand Fever Moving West: Homesteaders and Speculators Ranchers and Cowboys Tenants, Sharecroppers, and Migrants Commercial Farming and Industrial CowboysConclusion: The West in the Gilded AgeChapter Review—LearningCurve18. Business and Politics in the Gilded Age, 1865–1900Old Industries Transformed, New Industries Born Railroads: America’s First Big Business VISUALIZING HISTORY: "The Vanderbilts and the Gilded Age" Andrew Carnegie, Steel, and Vertical Integration John D. Rockefeller, Standard Oil, and the Trust New Inventions: The Telephone and the TelegraphFrom Competition to Consolidation J. P. Morgan and Finance Capitalism Social Darwinism, Laissez-Faire, and the Supreme CourtPolitics and Culture Political Participation and Party Loyalty Sectionalism and the New South Gender, Race, and Politics Women’s ActivismPresidential Politics Corruption and Party Strife Garfield’s Assassination and Civil Service Reform Reform and Scandal: The Campaign of 1884Economic Issues and Party Realignment The Tariff and the Politics of Protection Railroads, Trusts, and the Federal Government The Fight for Free Silver Panic and DepressionConclusion: Business Dominates an EraChapter Review—LearningCurve19. The City and Its Workers, 1870–1900The Rise of the City The Urban Explosion: A Global Migration Racism and the Cry for Immigration Restriction The Social Geography of the CityAt Work in Industrial America America’s Diverse Workers The Family Economy: Women and Children White-Collar Workers: Managers, "Typewriters," and SalesclerksWorkers Organize The Great Railroad Strike of 1877 The Knights of Labor and the American Federation of Labor Haymarket and the Specter of Labor RadicalismAt Home and at Play Domesticity and "Domestics" Cheap AmusementsCity Growth and City Government Building Cities of Stone and Steel City Government and the "Bosses" White City or City of Sin? BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "The World’s Columbian Exposition and Nineteenth-Century World’s Fairs"Conclusion: Who Built the Cities?Chapter Review—LearningCurve20. Dissent, Depression, and War, 1890–1900The Farmers’ Revolt The Farmers’ Alliance The Populist MovementThe Labor Wars The Homestead Lockout The Cripple Creek Miners’ Strike of 1894 Eugene V. Debs and the Pullman Strike DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Press and the Pullman Strike: Framing Class Conflict"Women’s Activism Frances Willard and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and the Movement for Woman SuffrageDepression Politics Coxey’s Army The People’s Party and the Election of 1896The United States and the World Markets and Missionaries The Monroe Doctrine and the Open Door Policy "A Splendid Little War" The Debate over American ImperialismConclusion: Rallying around the FlagChapter Review—LearningCurve21. Progressivism from the Grass Roots to the White House, 1890–1916Grassroots Progressivism Civilizing the City Progressives and the Working ClassProgressivism: Theory and Practice Reform Darwinism and Social Engineering Progressive Government: City and StateProgressivism Finds a President: Theodore Roosevelt The Square Deal Roosevelt the Reformer VISUALIZING HISOTRY: "The Birth of Photojournalism" Roosevelt and Conservation The Big Stick The Troubled Presidency of William Howard TaftWoodrow Wilson and Progressivism at High Tide Progressive Insurgency and the Election of 1912 Wilson’s Reforms: Tariff, Banking, and the Trusts Wilson, Reluctant ProgressiveThe Limits of Progressive Reform Radical Alternatives Progressivism for White Men OnlyConclusion: The Transformation of the Liberal StateChapter Review—LearningCurve22. World War I: The Progressive Crusade at Home and Abroad, 1914–1920Woodrow Wilson and the World Taming the Americas The European Crisis The Ordeal of American Neutrality The United States Enters the War"Over There" The Call to Arms The War in FranceThe Crusade for Democracy at Home The Progressive Stake in the War Women, War, and the Battle for Suffrage DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Final Push for Woman Suffrage" Rally around the Flag — or ElseA Compromised Peace Wilson’s Fourteen Points The Paris Peace Conference The Fight for the TreatyDemocracy at Risk Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval The Red Scare The Great Migrations of African Americans and Mexicans Postwar Politics and the Election of 1920Conclusion: Troubled CrusadeChapter Review—LearningCurve23. From New Era to Great Depression, 1920–1932The New Era A Business Government Promoting Prosperity and Peace Abroad Automobiles, Mass Production, and Assembly-Line Progress Consumer Culture VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Advertising in a Consumer Age"The Roaring Twenties Prohibition The New Woman The New Negro Entertainment for the Masses The Lost GenerationResistance to Change Rejecting the Undesirables The Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan The Scopes Trial Al Smith and the Election of 1928The Great Crash Herbert Hoover: The Great Engineer The Distorted Economy The Crash of 1929 Hoover and the Limits of IndividualismLife in the Depression The Human Toll Denial and Escape Working-Class MilitancyConclusion: Dazzle and DespairChapter Review—LearningCurve24. The New Deal Experiment, 1932–1939Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Patrician in Government The Making of a Politician BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "Fascism: Adolf Hitler and National Socialism" The Election of 1932Launching the New Deal The New Dealers Banking and Finance Reform Relief and Conservation Programs Agricultural Initiatives Industrial RecoveryChallenges to the New Deal Resistance to Business Reform Casualties in the Countryside Politics on the FringesToward a Welfare State Relief for the Unemployed Empowering Labor Social Security and Tax Reform Neglected Americans and the New DealThe New Deal from Victory to Deadlock The Election of 1936 Court Packing Reaction and Recession The Last of the New Deal ReformsConclusion: Achievements and Limitations of the New DealChapter Review—LearningCurve25. The United States and the Second World War, 1939–1945Peacetime Dilemmas Roosevelt and Reluctant Isolation The Good Neighbor Policy The Price of NoninvolvementThe Onset of War Nazi Aggression and War in Europe From Neutrality to the Arsenal of Democracy Japan Attacks AmericaMobilizing for War Home-Front Security DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Japanese Internment" Building a Citizen Army Conversion to a War EconomyFighting Back Turning the Tide in the Pacific The Campaign in EuropeThe Wartime Home Front Women and Families, Guns and Butter The Double V Campaign Wartime Politics and the 1944 Election Reaction to the HolocaustToward Unconditional Surrender From Bombing Raids to Berlin The Defeat of Japan Atomic WarfareConclusion: Allied Victory and America’s Emergence as a SuperpowerChapter Review—LearningCurve26. Cold War Politics in the Truman Years, 1945–1953From the Grand Alliance to Containment The Cold War Begins DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Emerging Cold War" The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan Building a National Security State Superpower Rivalry around the GlobeTruman and the Fair Deal at Home Reconverting to a Peacetime Economy Blacks and Mexican Americans Push for Their Civil Rights The Fair Deal Flounders The Domestic Chill: McCarthyismThe Cold War Becomes Hot: Korea Korea and the Military Implementation of Containment From Containment to Rollback to Containment Korea, Communism, and the 1952 Election An Armistice and the War’s CostsConclusion: The Cold War’s Costs and ConsequencesChapter Review—LearningCurve27. The Politics and Culture of Abundance, 1952–1960Eisenhower and the Politics of the "Middle Way" Modern Republicanism Termination and Relocation of Native Americans The 1956 Election and the Second TermLiberation Rhetoric and the Practice of Containment The "New Look" in Foreign Policy Applying Containment to Vietnam Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East The Nuclear Arms RaceNew Work and Living Patterns in an Economy of Abundance Technology Transforms Agriculture and Industry Burgeoning Suburbs and Declining Cities The Rise of the Sun Belt The Democratization of Higher EducationThe Culture of Abundance Consumption Rules the Day The Revival of Domesticity and Religion Television Transforms Culture and Politics CountercurrentsThe Emergence of a Civil Rights Movement African Americans Challenge the Supreme Court and the President DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "The Brown Decision" Montgomery and Mass ProtestConclusion: Peace and Prosperity Mask Unmet ChallengesChapter Review—LearningCurve28. Reform, Rebellion, and Reaction, 1960–1974Liberalism at High Tide The Unrealized Promise of Kennedy’s New Frontier Johnson Fulfills the Kennedy Promise Policymaking for a Great Society Assessing the Great Society The Judicial RevolutionThe Second Reconstruction The Flowering of the Black Freedom Struggle The Response in Washington Black Power and Urban RebellionsA Multitude of Movements Native American Protest Latino Struggles for Justice Student Rebellion, the New Left, and the Counterculture VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Anti-Establishment Clothing" Gay Men and Lesbians OrganizeThe New Wave of Feminism A Multifaceted Movement Emerges Feminist Gains Spark a CountermovementLiberal Reform in the Nixon Administration Extending the Welfare State and Regulating the Economy Responding to Environmental Concerns Expanding Social JusticeConclusion: Achievements and Limitations of LiberalismChapter Review—LearningCurve29. Vietnam and the End of the Cold War Consensus, 1961–1975New Frontiers in Foreign Policy Meeting the "Hour of Maximum Danger" New Approaches to the Third World The Arms Race and the Nuclear Brink A Growing War in VietnamLyndon Johnson’s War against Communism An All-Out Commitment in Vietnam Preventing Another Castro in Latin America The Americanized War Those Who ServedA Nation Polarized The Widening War at Home The Tet Offensive and Johnson’s Move toward Peace BEYOND AMERICA'S BORDERS: "1968: A Year of Protest" The Tumultuous Election of 1968Nixon, Détente, and the Search for Peace in Vietnam Moving toward Détente with the Soviet Union and China Shoring Up U.S. Interests around the World Vietnam Becomes Nixon’s War The Peace Accords The Legacy of DefeatConclusion: An Unwinnable WarChapter Review—LearningCurve30. America Moves to the Right, 1969–1989Nixon, Conservatism, and Constitutional Crisis Emergence of a Grassroots Movement Nixon Courts the Right The Election of 1972 Watergate The Ford Presidency and the 1976 ElectionThe "Outsider" Presidency of Jimmy Carter Retreat from Liberalism Energy and Environmental Reform Promoting Human Rights Abroad The Cold War IntensifiesRonald Reagan and the Conservative Ascendancy Appealing to the New Right and Beyond Unleashing Free Enterprise Winners and Losers in a Flourishing EconomyContinuing Struggles over Rights Battles in the Courts and Congress Feminism on the Defensive The Gay and Lesbian Rights Movement DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN PROMISE: "Protecting Gay and Lesbian Rights"Ronald Reagan Confronts an "Evil Empire" Militarization and Interventions Abroad The Iran-Contra Scandal A Thaw in Soviet-American RelationsConclusion: Reversing the Course of GovernmentChapter Review—LearningCurve31. The Promises and Challenges of Globalization, Since 1989Domestic Stalemate and Global Upheaval: The Presidency of George H. W. Bush Gridlock in Government Going to War in Central America and the Persian Gulf The Cold War Ends The 1992 ElectionThe Clinton Administration’s Search for the Middle Ground Clinton’s Reforms Accommodating the Right Impeaching the President The Booming Economy of the 1990sThe United States in a Globalizing World Defining America’s Place in a New World Order Debates over Globalization The Internationalization of the United StatesPresident George W. Bush: Conservatism at Home and Radical Initiatives Abroad The Disputed Election of 2000 The Domestic Policies of a "Compassionate Conservative" The Globalization of Terrorism Unilateralism, Preemption, and the Iraq WarThe Obama Presidency: Reform and Backlash VISUALIZING HISTORY: "Caricaturing the Candidates: Clinton and Obama in 2008"Conclusion: Defining the Government’s Role at Home and AbroadChapter Review—LearningCurveAPPENDICES I. Documents II. Facts and Figures: Government, Economy, and DemographicsGLOSSARYIndex
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