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The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History, 4E

by: Axelrod, Ph.D., Alan

The Complete Idiot's Guide to American History, 4E

by: Axelrod, Ph.D., Alan

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Edition: 4th
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Copyright: 03/07/2006
Publisher: ALPHA BOOKS
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Summary

You're no idiot, of course. You know that America's colonists fought against Great Britain to win independence, that Washington was the first president, and that Lincoln freed the slaves. But these are mere parts of the moments and decisions that helped forge the United States into the superpower it is today.

Part 1: The New World

(68)

1 The First People (43000 b.c.e.-1500's c.e.)

(6)

People of the Land Bridge

(1)

45,000 Years of American History (Abridged Version)

(1)

The Anasazi

(1)

The Mound Builders

(1)

Beyond the Aztec Horizon

(1)

Leif the Lucky

(3)

2 West to East (1451-1501)

(8)

The Round World Myth

(1)

The Weaver's Boy

(2)

Trouble on the Horizon

(1)

Columbus Day, 1492

(1)

First Blood

(1)

Carving Up

(1)

Three More Voyages

(1)

Why We're Not Called Columbia

(3)

3 New Blood for Old Spain (1400-1600's)

(8)

The Sword of the Conquistador

(4)

Borderlands

(1)

Oñate the Terrible

(1)

The "Black Legend"

(2)

The First American Revolutions

(1)

From Black Legend to Black Robes

(2)

4 England's Errand in the Wilderness (1491-1608)

(8)

England Joins the Age of Discovery

(2)

Henry's Hired Sailor

(1)

Passage to India? No Way

(2)

A Colony Vanishes, Another Appears

(5)

What Happened to Roanoke?

(1)

Starving in Jamestown

(1)

John Smith and Pocahontas

(3)

5 A Rock and a Hard Place (1608-1733)

(10)

Promised Land

(2)

Massachusetts Bay

(1)

Rhode Island: Haven for the Heterodox

(1)

Maryland: Catholics Welcome

(1)

Pennsylvania: Quaker Colony

(1)

Georgia: Utopia, Prison, and Profit Center

(1)

Slave Country

(3)

6 Colonial Contenders (1608-1680's)

(10)

Champlain Sails In

(1)

The Sun King Beams

(2)

A Small Investment

(3)

Kieft the Butcher

(1)

Stuyvesant Takes Command

(1)

Sweden in the Delaware Valley

(1)

New Netherland Becomes New York

(3)

7 Fires in the Wilderness (1636-1148)

(8)

New England Bleeds

(2)

The Pequot War

(1)

King Philip's War

(1)

The French and Indian Wars

(5)

King William's War

(1)

Queen Anne's War

(1)

Tuscarora and Yemasee Wars

(1)

King George's War

(2)

8 Global War in the Backwoods (1749-1763)

(8)

The French and Indian War

(4)

Baptism by Fire for the Father of Our Country

(1)

"Who Would Have Thought It?"

(2)

Panic, Retreat, Retrenchment

(1)

Seven Years' Bad Luck

(1)

Rebellion of a Chief

(2)

Part 2: The World Turned Upside Down

(24)

9 Invitation to a Tea Party (1763-1775)

(12)

King George Draws a Line

(1)

Taxation Without Representation

(2)

Stamps of Tyranny

(1)

Act II

(1)

Bloody Boston

(1)

Tearing Apart and Coming Together

(2)

Some Intolerable Acts

(1)

Continental Congress

(1)

The Shot Heard 'Round the World

(1)

Washington Signs On

(1)

A Misnamed Battle near Bunker Hill

(1)

The Olive Branch Spurned, a Declaration Written

(3)

10 Fanning the Flames of Liberty (1116-1183)

(10)

A Bad Bet

(1)

Boston Besieged

(1)

Southern Exposure

(1)

A Pale Flush of Victory

(1)

The British Lion Roars

(1)

Recrossing the Delaware

(1)

Saratoga Sunrise

(1)

Trouble in the City of Brotherly Love

(1)

Vive la France!

(1)

A Hard Forge

(1)

White War, Red Blood

(1)

More Action in the South

(1)

The Triumph at Yorktown

(2)

Part 3: Building the House

(38)

11 From Many, One (1781-1791)

(10)

Bound by a Rope of Sand

(1)

Northwest Ordinance

(1)

We the People

(1)

Constitutional Convention

(2)

The Virginia Plan

(1)

The New Jersey Plan

(1)

Connecticut Compromise

(1)

Three-Fifths of a Person

(1)

Federalist Hard Sell

100

(1)

Father of His Country

100

(2)

Glorious Afterthought: The Bill of Rights

102

(1)

Hamilton Gets the Credit

103

(2)

12 Growing Pains (1198-1812)

105

(8)

Foreign Affairs

106

(2)

As Easy as XYZ

107

(1)

The Tyranny of Democracy

107

(1)

The Age of Jefferson

108

(3)

Supreme Court Reigns Supreme

109

(1)

A Purchase and a Grand Adventure

109

(1)

Struggle for Sovereignty

110

(1)

Tecumseh Raises the Hatchet

111

(2)

13 1812: A War for What? (1812-1814)

113

(8)

The War Hawks Roost

114

(1)

Three-Pronged Flop

115

(1)

The West in Peril

115

(1)

British Stranglehold

116

(1)

"We Have Met the Enemy, and They Are Ours"

116

(1)

O, Say Can You See

117

(1)

Deliverance on Lake Champlain

118

(1)

An American Hero Is Born

118

(3)

14 Fanfare for the Common Man (1814-1836)

121

(8)

Good Feelings

122

(3)

A Monumental Ditch

123

(1)

A Place in the Family of Nations

123

(1)

Monroe Doctrine

124

(1)

Bad Feelings

125

(2)

A Panic

125

(1)

A Compromise

126

(1)

The Age of Jackson

127

(2)

Common Man or King Andrew?

127

(2)

15 Trails of Tears (1811-1842)

129

(2)

Liberty and Union, Now and Forever

130

(1)

The Seminoles Say No

131

(1)

The Defiance of Black Hawk

132

(1)

Indian Removal

133

(6)

Hollow Victory

133

(1)

A Man Called Osceola

134

(1)

"The Cruelest Work I Ever Knew"

135

(1)

Welcome to Indian Territory

135

Part 4: The douse Divided

131

(54)

16 A Nation in Chains (1124-1851)

139

(8)

Against the American Grain

139

(4)

Eli Whitney's Slave Machine

140

(1)

Underground Railroad

141

(1)

The Liberator and the Narrative

142

(1)

The Tortured Course of Compromise

143

(2)

1850: A New Compromise

143

(1)

Kansas-Nebraska Act

144

(1)

The Dred Scott Disaster

145

(2)

17 Westward the Course (1834-1846)

147

(8)

The Plow and the Reaper

148

(1)

Cyrus McCormick

148

(1)

John Deere

149

(1)

Martyrdom in Texas

149

(2)

Rolling West

151

(1)

Overland Trail

151

(1)

Oregon Fever

152

(1)

"What Hath God Wrought?"

152

(3)

18 Destiny Manifested (1846-1860)

155

(8)

Halls of Montezuma

156

(2)

Of God and Gold

158

(5)

The Mormons' Trek

158

(1)

Chasing the Glitter

159

(4)

19 A Strange Flag over Sumter (1859-1862)

163

(10)

John Brown's Body

164

(1)

Bleak Transition

165

(1)

April 12, 1861, 4:30 A.M.

166

(1)

From Bull Run to Antietam

167

(4)

Seven Days

168

(1)

Back to Bull Run

169

(1)

Perryville and Antietam

170

(1)

Emancipation Proclaimed-More or Less

171

(2)

20 Bloody Road to Appomattox and Beyond (1863-1816)

173

(12)

Four Score and Seven

174

(2)

Vicksburg and Chattanooga

176

(1)

To Richmond

177

(1)

The March to the Sea

178

(1)

Mr. McLean's House

179

(1)

With Malice Toward Some

180

(2)

The President Attends a Comedy

180

(1)

Reconstruction Deconstructed

181

(1)

Articles of Impeachment

182

(1)

Enter "His Fraudulency"

182

(3)

Part 5: Rebuilding the Rouse

185

(42)

21 Sea to Shining Sea (1862-1818)

187

(10)

Home Sweet Home

188

(2)

Ruts and Rails

190

(7)

The Great Iron Road

191

(3)

Golden Spike at Promontory

194

(3)

22 The Warpath (1862-1891)

197

(10)

Blue, Gray, and Red

198

(1)

Terror in the Southwest

198

(1)

Massacre in Minnesota

199

(1)

War for the Bozeman Trail

200

(1)

Hancock's War and Sheridan's Campaign

201

(1)

Struggle for the Black Hills

201

(2)

"I Will Fight No More Forever"

203

(1)

After Geronimo

204

(1)

Wounded Knee Ending

204

(3)

23 Exploitation and Enterprise (1869-1908)

207

(12)

An Empire of Cows

208

(1)

Law and Disorder

209

(1)

Cornering the Market

210

(3)

Gould and Gold

211

(1)

Rockefeller and Oil

212

(1)

The Gospel of Wealth

212

(1)

An Age of Invention

213

(6)

"Mr. Watson, Come Here!"

213

(1)

One Percent Inspiration

214

(1)

Sound and Light Captured

215

(1)

Bridge and Skyscraper, Kitty Hawk and Detroit

216

(3)

24 Octopus and Jungle (1811-1906)

219

(8)

The Golden Door

220

(2)

How the Other Half Lived

221

(1)

Rush to New Land

221

(1)

The Knights of Labor

222

(2)

Strike!

222

(1)

AFL

223

(1)

I Won't Work

223

(1)

Boss Tyranny

224

(1)

Chicago Meat

224

(5)

Muckrakers and Progressivism

225

(1)

Government Makes a Stand

225

(2)

Part 6: World Power

227

(44)

25 Over There (1898-1918)

229

(10)

Selling the News

230

(2)

"I'll Furnish the War"

230

(1)

Remember the Maine!

231

(1)

He Kept Us Out of War

232

(7)

Lusitania Lost

234

(1)

Zimmermann Note

235

(1)

Safe for Democracy

236

(1)

Patriots and Slackers

236

(1)

Over the Top

237

(1)

A Blooding at the Marne

237

(1)

St. Mihiel Victory

238

(1)

Not Peace, but Armistice

238

(1)

26 Booze, Boom, Bust (1918-1929)

239

(10)

Wilson's Dream

240

(3)

Reds!

240

(2)

The Dream Ends

242

(1)

A Generation Lost and Found

243

(3)

Stein, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Co.

243

(1)

Women Get the Vote

244

(1)

Harlem Lights and Harlem Nights

244

(2)

America Goes Dry

246

(1)

Countdown to Black Tuesday

247

(2)

Joy Ride

247

(1)

Paying the Fare

247

(2)

27 A New Deal and a New War (1930-1941)

249

(10)

Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?

250

(1)

Tyranny Abroad

251

(1)

The Epoch of FDR

251

(3)

Street Wars

254

(1)

Bloodlust

255

(4)

Lightning War

255

(2)

Infamy at Pearl Harbor

257

(2)

28 Saving the World (1941-1945)

259

(12)

"I Shall Return"

260

(1)

Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

261

(1)

The Dark Genius of Erwin Rommel

262

(1)

Coral Sea and Midway

262

(1)

Island Hopping

262

(1)

On Mediterranean Shores

263

(1)

D-Day

264

(1)

Retaking Europe

265

(3)

Fat Man and Little Boy

268

(3)

Part 7: Superpower

271

(36)

29 War Served Cold-and Hot (1944-1954)

273

(10)

Winning the Peace

274

(1)

United Nations

274

(1)

Divided Germany

274

(1)

Marshall's Bold Plan

274

(1)

Curtain of Iron

275

(4)

"Containing" Communism

275

(1)

Berlin Lifeline

276

(1)

Witch-Hunts

277

(2)

"Police Action" in Korea

279

(4)

Invasion, Counterstrike, Invasion

280

(1)

Meatgrinder

280

(1)

Old Soldiers

281

(1)

Thrust, Counterthrust, and Stalemate

281

(1)

Talking Peace and Talking Some More

281

(1)

The Unhappiest Ally

282

(1)

30 From the Back of the Bus to the Great Society (1941-1968)

283

(12)

Executive Order 9981

284

(1)

The Dream Deferred

284

(3)

Rosa Parks Boards a Bus

285

(1)

A Preacher from Atlanta

286

(1)

Or Does It Explode?

287

(2)

Sputnik and the New Frontier

289

(1)

JFK

290

(2)

"The Torch Has Been Passed "

290

(1)

From the Bay of Pigs to the Edge of Armageddon

290

(2)

Motorcade in Dallas

292

(1)

LBJ

292

(3)

War on Poverty

293

(1)

Civil Rights Act of 1964

293

(2)

31 Nam (1946-1915)

295

(12)

History

296

(1)

The March to Dien Bien Phu

296

(1)

Domino Theory

297

(1)

American "Advisors"

297

(1)

Flaming Monks and the Fall of a "Friend"

297

(1)

Rolling Thunder

298

(1)

"Escalation" and "Vietnamization"

298

(1)

Hearts and Minds

299

(1)

The Light at the End of the Tunnel

300

(1)

Tet Offensive

301

(1)

A President Opts Out

301

(1)

Nixon's War

301

(3)

Paris, Cambodia, and Laos

302

(1)

Death for Easter

303

(1)

Bombs for Christmas

304

(1)

Peace with Honor

304

(3)

Part 8: Identity Crisis

307

(20)

32 Of Love, the Moon, and Dirty Tricks (1968-1914)

309

(8)

Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out

310

(1)

Peace and Love

311

(1)

The Eagle Has Landed

311

(1)

Pentagon Papers

312

(1)

SALT, China, and the Middle East

312

(1)

CREEP

313

(4)

Plumbers at Work

314

(1)

All the President's Men

314

(3)

33 Women Rise, the Nation Drifts, Reagan Rallies (1963-1980)

317

(10)

A Woman's Place

318

(2)

From Rosie the Riveter to The Feminine Mystique

318

(1)

The Power of the Pill

319

(1)

NOW and Ms.

319

(1)

ERA Collapse

320

(1)

Oil

320

(1)

The Japanese Miracle

321

(1)

Scary Cities, Crumbling Bridges

322

(1)

China Syndrome

322

(1)

The Fanatics

323

(1)

The Great Communicator

324

(3)

Part 9: A New World Order?

327

(58)

34 A New Economy, a Plague, a Fallen Wall, and a Desert in flames (1980-1991)

329

(12)

The Trickle-Down Solution

330

(3)

Greed Is Good

331

(2)

Black Monday

333

(1)

"Gay Plague" and a Blind Eye

333

(1)

"Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall!"

334

(1)

A War Without Bullets

334

(2)

An Ideology Crumbles

335

(1)

Ollie, Iran, and the Contras

336

(1)

Measuring the Reagan Years

337

(1)

Desert Shield and Desert Storm

338

(3)

35 E Pluribus Unum (1991-1999)

341

(12)

The Economy, Stupid

342

(1)

The New Right

342

(2)

Right to Life

342

(1)

Christian Right

343

(1)

The Age of Rage

344

(3)

Waco and Oklahoma City

344

(2)

At Heaven's Gate

346

(1)

And It Was Still the Economy

347

(1)

We Fight for Peace

348

(5)

Waking from the Bosnian Nightmare

349

(1)

Kosovo "Crisis"

350

(3)

36 Democracy at the Turn of the Millennium (1991-2005)

353

(16)

American Trials

353

(4)

"Can't We All Just Get Along?"

354

(1)

The Juice Is Loose

355

(1)

High Crimes and Misdemeanors?

356

(1)

Of Wall Street Riches and the Great American Smokeout

357

(3)

Paper Money

358

(1)

Dot.Com

358

(2)

Dot Bomb

360

(1)

Pillars of the Community

360

(4)

Big Tobacco in a Public Burning

360

(2)

Cooked Books

362

(1)

The New Ethics?

363

(1)

Too Close to Call

364

(5)

37 Terror and Freedom (2001-)

369

(16)

9/11

369

(3)

Stunned

370

(1)

More Attacks

371

(1)

The Terrorists

372

(1)

A Rush to War

372

(5)

First War of the Twenty-First Century

373

(1)

The Toll of Terror

373

(1)

Next 7217-get: Iraq

374

(1)

Operation Iraqi Freedom

375

(1)

The Fall of Baghdad

376

(1)

"Mission Accomplished"

376

(1)

Red State, Blue State

377

(2)

The Christian Right

377

(1)

One Nation, Divisible

378

(1)

America in the World

379

(1)

Mortgage on the Future

380

(1)

Debt and More Debt

380

(1)

Fixing Social Security

381

(1)

Freedom on the March—or on the Run?

381

(4)

Index

385

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