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American History,Volume 2, with PowerWeb

by: Brinkley, Alan

American History,Volume 2, with PowerWeb

by: Brinkley, Alan

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Edition: 11th
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Copyright: 05/29/2003
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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Summary

Highly-respected for its impeccable scholarship and elegant writing style, American History: A Survey provides students and instructors with a comprehensive account of the American past in which no single approach or theme predominates. From its first edition, this text has included a scrupulous account of American political and diplomatic history. Today, however, the book explores areas of history such as social, cultural, urban, racial and ethnic history, more history of the West and South, environmental history, and the history of women and gender. In addition, American history has not evolved in a vacuum, but as part of a larger global world. The eleventh edition of this text places American history into that global context, making connections for students who live in an ever-expanding world themselves.

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Significant Events

The Problems of Peacemaking

The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"

Radical Reconstruction

The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the President

The South in Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in Freedom

The Grant Administration

The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican Diplomacy

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of Reconstruction

The New South

The "Redeemers"/Industrialization and the "New South"/Tenants and Sharecroppers/African Americans and the New South/The Birth of Jim Crow
Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show
Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST
Significant Events
The Societies of the Far West
The Western Tribes/Hispanic New Mexico/Hispanic California and Texas/The Chinese Migration/Anti-Chinese Sentiments/Migration from The East
The Changing Western Economy
Labor in the West/The Arrival of the Miners/The Cattle Kingdom
The Romance of the West
The Western Landscape/The Cowboy Culture/The Idea of the Frontier/Frederick Jackson Turner/The Loss of Utopia
The Dispersal of the Tribes
White Tribal Policies/The Indian Wars/The Dawes Act
The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer
Farming on the Plains/Commercial Agriculture/The Farmers' Grievances/The Agrarian Malaise
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show
Where Historians Disagree: The "Frontier" and the West
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY
Significant Events
Sources of Industrial Growth
Industrial Technologies/The Airplane and the Automobile/Research and Development/The Science of Production/Railroad Expansion/The Corporation/Consolidating Corporate America/The Trust and the Holding Company
Capitalism and Its Critics
The "Self-Made Man"/Survival of the Fittest/The Gospel of Wealth/Alternative Visions/The Problems of Monopoly
Industrial Workers in the New Economy
The Immigrant Work Force/Wages and Working Conditions/Women and Children at Work/The Struggle to Unionize/The Great Railroad Strike/The Knights of Labor/The AFL/The Homestead Strike/The Pullman Strike/Sources of Labor Weakness
The American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic Wand
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger/
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY
Significant Events
The Urbanization of America
The Lure of the City/Migrations/The Ethnic City/Assimilation/Exclusion
The Urban Landscape
The Creation of Public Space/Housing the Well-to-Do/Housing the Workers and the Poor/Urban Transportation/The "Skyscraper"
Strains of Urban Life
Fire and Disease/Environmental Degradation/Urban Poverty/Crime and Violence/Fear of the City/The Machine and the Boss
The Rise of Mass Consumption
Patterns of Income and Consumption/Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses/Department Stores/Women as Consumers
Leisure in the Consumer Society
Redefining Leisure/Spectator Sports/Music and Theater/The Movies/Working-Class Leisure/The Fourth of July/Private Pursuits/Mass Communications
High Culture in the Age of the City
The Literature of Urban America/Art in the Age of the City/The Impact of Darwinism/Toward Universal Schooling/Education for Women
America in the World: Global Migrations
Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS
Significant Events
The Politics of Equilibrium
The Party System/The National Government/Presidents and Patronage/Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff/New Public Issues
The Agrarian Revolt
The Grangers/The Farmers' Alliances/The Populist Constituency/Populist Ideas
The Crisis of the 1890s
The Panic of 1893/The Silver Question
"A Cross of Gold"
The Emergence of Bryan/The Conservative Victory/McKinley and Recovery
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Chautauquas
Where Historians Disagree: Populism
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty: THE IMPERIAL REPUBLIC
Significant Events
Stirrings of Imperialism
The New Manifest Destiny/Hemispheric Hegemony/Hawaii and Samoa
War with Spain
Controversy over Cuba/"A Splendid Little War"/Seizing the Philippines/The Battle for Cuba/Puerto Rico and the United States/The Debate over the Philippines
The Republic as Empire
Governing the Colonies/The Philippine War/The Open Door/A Modern Military System
America in the World: Imperialism
Patterns of Popular Culture: Yellow Journalism
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-One: THE RISE OF PROGRESSIVISM
Significant Events
The Progressive Impulse
Varieties of Progressivism/The Muckrakers/The Social Gospel/The Settlement House Movement/The Allure of Expertise/The Professions/Women and the Professions
Women and Reform
The "New Woman"/The Clubwomen/Woman Suffrage
The Assault on the Parties
Early Attacks/Municipal Reform/New Forms of Governance/Statehouse Progressivism/Parties and Interest Groups
Sources of Progressive Reform
Labor, the Machine, and Reform/Western Progressives/African Americans and Reform
Crusades for Order and Reform
The Temperance Crusade/The Dream of Socialism/Decentralization and Regulation
Where Historians Disagree: Progressive Reform
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Two: THE BATTLE FOR NATIONAL REFORM
Significant Events
Theodore Roosevelt and the Modern Presidency
The Accidental President/Government, Capital, and Labor/"The Square Deal"/Roosevelt and Conservation/Roosevelt and Preservation/The Hetch Hetchy Controversy/The Panic of 1907
The Troubled Succession
Taft and the ProgressivesThe Return of Roosevelt/Spreading Insurgency/Roosevelt versus Taft
Woodrow Wilson and the New Freedom
Woodrow Wilson/The Scholar as President/Retreat and Advance
The "Big Stick": America and the World, 1901-1917
Roosevelt and "Civilization"/Protecting the "Open Door" in Asia/The Iron-Fisted Neighbor/The Panama Canal/Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"/Diplomacy and Morality
The American Environment: Saving the Forests
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Three: AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR
Significant Events
The Road To War
The Collapse of the European Peace/Wilson's Neutrality/Preparedness versus Pacifism/A War for Democracy
"War Without Stint"
Entering the War/The American Expeditionary Force/The Military Struggle/The New Technology of Warfare
The War and American Society
Organizing the Economy for War/Labor and the War/Economic and Social Results of the War
The Search for Social Unity
The Peace Movement/Selling the War and Suppressing Dissent
The Search for a New World Order
The Fourteen Points/Early Obstacles/The Paris Peace Conference/The Ratification Battle/Wilson's Ordeal
A Society in Turmoil
Industry and Labor/The Demands of African Americans/The Red Scare/The Retreat from Idalism
Patterns of Popular Culture: Billy Sunday and Modern Revivalism
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Four: "THE NEW ERA"
Significant Events
The New Economy
Technology and Economic Growth/Economic Organization/Labor in the New Era/Women and Minorities in the Work Force/The "American Plan"/Agricultural Technology and the Plight of the Farmer
The New Culture
Consumerism/Advertising/The Movies and Broadcasting/Modernist Religion/Professional Women/Changing Ideas of Motherhood/The "Flapper": Image and Reality/Pressing for Women's Rights/Education and Youth/The Decline of the "Self-Made Man"/The Disenchanted/The Harlem Renaissance/The Southern Agrarians
A Conflict of Cultures
Prohibition/Nativism and the Klan/Religious Fundamentalism/The Democrats' Ordeal
Republican Government
Harding and Coolidge/Government and Business
Patterns of Popular Culture: Dance Halls
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Five: THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Significant Events
The Coming of the Great Depression
The Great Crash/Causes of the Depression/Progress of the Depression
The American People in Hard Times
Unemployment and Relief/African Americans and the Depression/Mexican Americans in Depression America/Asian Americans in Hard Times/Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression/Depression Families
The Depression and American Culture
Depression Values/Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression/Radio/The Movies/Popular Literature and Journalism/The Popular Front and the Left
The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
The Hoover Program/Popular Protest/The Election of 1932/The "Interregnum"Where Historians Disagree: Causes of the Great Depression
America in the World: The Global Depression
The American Environment: Dust Bowl
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Films of Frank Capra
Conclusion
for Further Reference

Chapter Twenty-Six: THE NEW DEAL
Significant Events
Launching the New Deal
Restoring Confidence/Agricultural Adjustment/Industrial Recovery/Regional Planning/Currency, Banks, and the Stock Market/The Growth of Federal Relief
The New Deal in Transition
Critics of the New Deal/The "Second New Deal"/Labor Militancy/Organizing Battles/Social Security/New Directions in Relief/The 1936 "Referendum"
The New Deal in Disarray
The Court Fight/Retrenchment and Recession
Limits and Legacies of the New Deal
The Idea of the "Broker State"/African Americans and The New Deal/The New Deal and the "Indian Problem"/Women and the New Deal/The New Deal in the West and the South/The New Deal and the National Economy/The New Deal and American Politics
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Golden Age of Comic Books
Where Historians Disagree: The New Deal
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Seven: THE GLOBAL CRISIS, 1921-1941
Significant Events
The Diplomacy of the New Era
Replacing the League/Debts and Diplomacy/Hoover and the World Crisis
Isolationism and Internationalism
Depression Diplomacy/America and the Soviet Union/The Good Neighbor Policy/The Rise of Isolationism/The Failure of Munich
From Neutrality to Intervention
Neutrality Tested/The Third-Term Campaign/Neutrality Abandoned/The Road to Pearl Harbor
America in the World: The Sino-Japanese War
Patterns of Popular Culture: Orson Welles and the War of the Worlds/Where Historians Disagree: The Question of Pearl Harbor
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Eight: AMERICA IN A WORLD AT WAR
Significant Events
War on Two Fronts
Containing the Japanese/Holding Off the Germans/America and the Holocaust
The American People in Wartime
Prosperity/The War and the West/Labor and the War/Stabilizing the Boom/Mobilizing Production/Wartime Science and Technology/African Americans and the War/Native Americans and the War/Mexican-American War Workers/Women and Children at War/Wartime Life and Culture/The Internment of Japanese Americans/Chinese Americans and the War/The Retreat from Reform
The Defeat of the Axis
The Liberation of France/The Pacific Offensive/The Manhattan Project/Atomic Warfare
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Age of Swing
Where Historians Disagree: The Decision to Drop the Atomic Bomb
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Twenty-Nine: THE COLD WAR
Significant Events
Origins of the Cold War
Sources of Soviet-American Tension/Wartime Diplomacy/Yalta
The Collapse of the Peace
The Failure of Potsdam/The China Problem/The Containment Doctrine/The Marshall Plan/Mobilization at Home/The Road to NATO/Reevaluating Cold War Policy
American Politics and Society After the War
The Problems of Reconversion/The Fair Deal Rejected/The Election of 1948/The Fair Deal Revived/The Nuclear Age
The Korean War
The Divided Peninsula/From Invasion to Stalemate/Limited Mobilization
The Crusades Against Subversion
HUAC and Alger Hiss/The Federal Loyalty Program and the Rosenberg Case/McCarthyism/The Republican Revival
Where Historians Disagree: Origins of the Cold War
Where Historians Disagree: McCarthyism
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Thirty: THE AFFLUENT SOCIETY
Significant Events
"The Economic Miracle"
Sources of Economic Growth/The Rise of the Modern West/The New Economics/Capital and Labor
The Explosion of Science and Technology
Medical Breakthroughs/Pesticides/Postwar Electronic Research/Postwar Computer Technology/Bombs, Rockets, and Missiles/The Space Program
People of Plenty
The Consumer Culture/The Suburban Nation/The Suburban Family/The Birth of Television/Travel, Outdoor Recreation, and Environmentalism/Organized Society and Its Detractors/The Beats and the Restless Culture of Youth/Rock 'n' Roll
The "Other America"
On the Margins of the Affluent Society/Rural Poverty/The Inner Cities
The Rise of the Civil Rights Movement
The Brown Decision and "Massive Resistance"/The Expanding Movement/Causes of the Civil Rights Movement
Eisenhower Republicanism
"What Was Good for . . . General Motors"/The Survival of the Welfare State/The Decline of McCarthyism
Eisenhower, Dulles, and the Cold War
Dulles and "Massive Retaliation"/France, America, and Vietnam/Cold War Crises/Europe and the Soviet Union/The U-2 Crises
The American Environment: The Landscape and the Automobile
Patterns of Popular Culture: Lucy and Desi
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-One: THE ORDER OF LIBERALISM
Significant Events
Expanding the Liberal State
John Kennedy/Lyndon Johnson/The Assault on Poverty/Cities, Schools, and Immigration/Legacies of the Great Society
The Battle for Racial Equality
Expanding Protests/A National Commitment/The Battle for Voting Rights/The Changing Movement/Urban Violence/Black Power/Malcolm X
"Flexible Response" and the Cold War
Diversifying Foreign Policy/Confrontations with the Soviet Union/Johnson and the World
The Agony of Vietnam
The First Indochina War/Geneva and the Two Vietnams/America and Diem/From Aid to Intervention/The Quagmire/The War at Home
The Traumas of 1968
The Tet Offensive/The Political Challenge/The King and Kennedy Assassinations/The Conservative Response
Where Historians Disagree: The Vietnam Commitment
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Folk-Music Revival
America in the World: 1968
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Two: THE CRISIS OF AUTHORITY
Significant Events
The Youth Culture
The New Left/The Counterculture
The Mobilization of Minorities
Seeds of Indian Militancy/The Indian Civil Rights Movement/Latino Activism/Challenging the "Melting Pot" Ideal/Gay Liberation
The New Feminism
The Rebirth/Women's Liberation/Expanding Achievements/The Abortion Controversy
Environmentalism in a Turbulent Society
The Science of Ecology/Environmental Advocacy/Environmental Degradation/Earth Day and Beyond
Nixon, Kissinger, and the War
Vietnamization/Escalation/"Peace with Honor"/Defeat in Indochina
Nixon, Kissinger, and the World
China and the Soviet Union/The Problems of Multipolarity
Politics and Economics Under Nixon
Domestic Initiatives/From the Warren Court to the Nixon Court/The Election of 1972/The Troubled Economy/The Nixon Response
The Watergate Crisis
The Scandals/The Fall of Richard Nixon
Patterns of Popular Culture: Rock Music in the Sixties
The American Environment: Silent Spring
Where Historians Disagree: Watergate
Conclusion
for Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Three: FROM "THE AGE OF LIMITS" TO THE AGE OF REAGAN
Significant Events
Politics and Diplomacy After Watergate
The Ford Custodianship/The Trials of Jimmy Carter/Human Rights and National Interests/The Year of the Hostages
The Rise of the New American Right
The Sunbelt and Its Politics/Religious Revivalism/The Emergence of the New Right/The Tax Revolt/The Campaign of 1980
The "Reagan Revolution"
The Reagan Coalition/Reagan in the White House/"Supply-Side" Economics/The Fiscal Crisis/Reagan and the World/The Election of 1984
America and the Waning of the Cold War
The Fall of the Soviet Union/Reagan and Gorbachev/The Fading of the Reagan Revolution/The Election of 1988/The Bush Presidency/The Gulf War/The Election of 1992
Patterns of Popular Culture: The Mall
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Chapter Thirty-Four: THE AGE OF GLOBALIZATION
Significant Events
A Resurgence of Partisanship
Launching the Clinton Presidency/The Republican Resurgence/The Election of 1996/Clinton Triumphant and Embattled/Impeachment, Acquittal, and Resurgence/The Election of 2000/The Second Bush Presidency
The Economic Boom
From "Stagflaration" to Growth/The Two-Tiered Economy/Globalization
Science and Technology in the New Economy
The Personal Computer/The Internet/Breakthroughs in Genetics
A Changing Society
The Graying of America/New Patterns of Immigration and Ethnicity/The Black Middle Class/Poor and Working-Class African Americans/Modern Plagues: Drugs and AIDS/The Decline in Crime
A Contested Culture
Battles over Feminism and Abortion/The Changing Left and the Growth of Environmentalism/The Fragmentation of Mass Culture/The "Culture Wars"
The Perils of Globalization
Opposing the "New World Order"/Defending Orthodoxy/The Rise of Terrorism/A New Era?Patterns of Popular Culture: Rap
Where Historians Disagree: Women's History
Conclusion
For Further Reference
Appendixes
The United States
Topographical Map of the United States
The World
United States Territorial Expansion, 1783-1898
The Declaration of Independence
The Constitution of the United States of America
Presidential Elections
Vice Presidents and Cabinet Members
Population of the United States, 1790-2000H4>Employment, 1870-2000
Production, Trade, and Federal Spending/Debt, 1790-2000Index

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9780072936728

007293672X

Summary

Table of Contents

Chapter Fifteen: RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEW SOUTH

Significant Events

The Problems of Peacemaking

The Aftermath of War and Emancipation/Competing Notions of Freedom/Issues of Reconstruction/Plans for Reconstruction/The Death of Lincoln/Johnson and "Restoration"

Radical Reconstruction

The Black Codes/The Fourteenth Amendment/The Congressional Plan/The Impeachment of the President

The South in Reconstruction

The Reconstruction Governments/Education/Landownership and Tenancy/The Crop-Lien System/The African-American Family in Freedom

The Grant Administration

The Soldier President/The Grant Scandals/The Greenback Question/Republican Diplomacy

The Abandonment of Reconstruction

The Southern States "Redeemed"/The Ku Klux Klan Acts/Waning Northern Commitment/The Compromise of 1877/The Legacies of Reconstruction

The New South

Where Historians Disagree: Reconstruction

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Minstrel Show

Where Historians Disagree: The Origins of Segregation

Conclusion

For Further Reference

Chapter Sixteen: THE CONQUEST OF THE FAR WEST

Significant Events

The Societies of the Far West

The Western Tribes/Hispanic New Mexico/Hispanic California and Texas/The Chinese Migration/Anti-Chinese Sentiments/Migration from The East

The Changing Western Economy

Labor in the West/The Arrival of the Miners/The Cattle Kingdom

The Romance of the West

The Western Landscape/The Cowboy Culture/The Idea of the Frontier/Frederick Jackson Turner/The Loss of Utopia

The Dispersal of the Tribes

White Tribal Policies/The Indian Wars/The Dawes Act

The Rise and Decline of the Western Farmer

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Wild West Show

Where Historians Disagree: The "Frontier" and the West

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Seventeen: INDUSTRIAL SUPREMACY

Significant Events

Sources of Industrial Growth

Industrial Technologies/The Airplane and the Automobile/Research and Development/The Science of Production/Railroad Expansion/The Corporation/Consolidating Corporate America/The Trust and the Holding Company

Capitalism and Its Critics

The "Self-Made Man"/Survival of the Fittest/The Gospel of Wealth/Alternative Visions/The Problems of Monopoly

Industrial Workers in the New Economy

The American Environment: The Locomotive's Magic Wand

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Novels of Horatio Alger/

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Eighteen: THE AGE OF THE CITY

Significant Events

The Urbanization of America

The Lure of the City/Migrations/The Ethnic City/Assimilation/Exclusion

The Urban Landscape

The Creation of Public Space/Housing the Well-to-Do/Housing the Workers and the Poor/Urban Transportation/The "Skyscraper"

Strains of Urban Life

Fire and Disease/Environmental Degradation/Urban Poverty/Crime and Violence/Fear of the City/The Machine and the Boss

The Rise of Mass Consumption

Patterns of Income and Consumption/Chain Stores and Mail-Order Houses/Department Stores/Women as Consumers

Leisure in the Consumer Society

Redefining Leisure/Spectator Sports/Music and Theater/The Movies/Working-Class Leisure/The Fourth of July/Private Pursuits/Mass Communications

High Culture in the Age of the City

America in the World: Global Migrations

Patterns of Popular Culture: Coney Island

Conclusion

for Further Reference

Chapter Nineteen: FROM STALEMATE TO CRISIS

Significant Events

The Politics of Equilibrium

The Party System/The National Government/Presidents and Patronage/Cleveland, Harrison, and the Tariff/New Public Issues

The Agrarian Revolt

The Grangers/The Farmers' Alliances/The Populist Constituency/Populist Ideas

The Crisis of the 1890s

The Panic of 1893/The Silver Question

"A Cross of Gold"

Patterns of Popular Culture: The Chautauquas

Where Historians Disagree: Populism

Conclusion