America Past and Present, Brief Edition, Single Volume Edition, Primary Source Edition

by Divine, Robert A.; Breen, T. H.; Fredrickson, George M.; Williams, R. Hal; Gross, Ariela J.; Brands, H. W.; Roberts, Randy

• ISBN13: 9780321365736
• ISBN10: 0321365739
• Edition: 6th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

The Primary Sources EDITION of America Past and Present integrates the social and political dimensions of American history into one rich chronological narrative and includes 2 to 3 primary sources per chapter with critical thinking questions for each source. This EDITION features all of the strengths found in the successful comprehensive text: a compelling narrative, clear organization, and exceptional pedagogy. An attractive four-color design highlighted with numerous maps and photos will engage readers.

Table of Contents

Maps	xix
Charts, Figures, and Tables	xx
Features	xxi
Preface	xxiii
Acknowledgments	xxix
About the Authors	xxx
New World Encounters	1	(20)
Clash of Cultures: The Meaning of Murder in Early Maryland	1	(20)
Native American Histories Before Conquest	2	(1)
The Environmental Challenge: Food, Climate, and Culture	2	(1)
Mysterious Disappearances	3	(1)
Aztec Dominance	4	(1)
Eastern Woodland Cultures	4	(1)
A World Transformed	5	(1)
Cultural Negotiations	6	(1)
Threats to Survival: Trade and Disease	7	(1)
West Africa: Ancient and Complex Societies	8	(1)
Europe on the Eve of Conquest	9	(1)
Building New Nation-States	9	(1)
Imagining a New World	10	(1)
Myths and Reality	10	(1)
The Conquistadores: Faith and Greed	11	(1)
From Plunder to Settlement	11	(2)
French Exploration and Settlement	13	(1)
The English New World	14	(1)
Religious Turmoil and Reformation in Europe	14	(1)
The Protestant Queen	15	(1)
Religion, War, and Nationalism	16	(1)
Rehearsal in Ireland for American Colonization	16	(1)
An Unpromising Beginning: Mystery at Roanoke	17	(1)
Conclusion: Propaganda for Empire	18	(3)
Conflicting Visions: England's Seventeenth-Century Colonies	21	(21)
Profit and Piety: Competing Blueprints for English Settlement	21	(21)
Breaking Away	22	(1)
The Chesapeake: Dreams of Wealth	22	(1)
Entrepreneurs in Virginia	23	(1)
``Stinking Weed''	24	(1)
Time of Reckoning	25	(1)
Maryland: A Troubled Refuge for Catholics	26	(1)
Reforming England in America	27	(1)
``The Great Migration''	28	(1)
``A City on a Hill''	29	(2)
Limits of Religious Dissent	31	(1)
Mobility and Division	32	(1)
Diversity in the Middle Colonies	32	(1)
Anglo-Dutch Rivalry on the Hudson	32	(2)
Confusion in New Jersey	34	(1)
Quakers in America	34	(2)
Planting the Carolinas	36	(3)
The Founding of Georgia	39	(1)
Conclusion: Living with Diversity	40	(2)
Putting Down Roots: Opportunity and Oppression in Colonial Society	42	(16)
Families in an Atlantic Empire	42	(16)
Sources of Stability: New England Colonies of the Seventeenth Century	43	(1)
Immigrant Families and New Social Order	43	(1)
Commonwealth of Families	44	(1)
Women's Lives in Puritan New England	44	(1)
Social Hierarchy in New England	45	(1)
The Challenge of the Chesapeake Environment	46	(1)
Family Life at Risk	46	(1)
The Structure of Planter Society	47	(1)
Race and Freedom in British America	48	(1)
Roots of Slavery	48	(2)
Constructing African American Identities	50	(1)
Rise of a Commercial Empire	50	(1)
Response to Economic Competition	51	(1)
Regulating Colonial Trade	51	(2)
Colonial Factions Spark Political Revolt, 1676--1691	53	(1)
Civil War in Virginia: Bacon's Rebellion	53	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in the Bay Colony	54	(1)
Contagion of Witchcraft	55	(1)
The Glorious Revolution in New York and Maryland	55	(1)
Conclusion: Local Aspirations Within an Atlantic Empire	56	(2)
Experience of Empire: Eighteenth-Century America	58	(24)
Constructing an Anglo-American Identity: The Journal of William Byrd	58	(24)
Growth and Diversity	60	(1)
Scots-Irish and Germans	60	(1)
Convict Settlers	61	(1)
Native Americans Stake Out a Middle Ground	61	(1)
Spanish Borderlands of the Eighteenth Century	62	(1)
Conquering the Northern Frontier	63	(1)
Peoples of the Spanish Borderlands	63	(1)
The Impact of European Ideas on American Culture	64	(1)
Provincial Cities	64	(1)
American Enlightenment	65	(1)
Economic Transformation	66	(1)
Birth of a Consumer Society	67	(1)
Religious Revivals in Provincial Societies	68	(1)
The Great Awakening	68	(1)
The Voice of Popular Religion	68	(2)
Clash of Political Cultures	70	(1)
The Theory and the Reality of British Politics	70	(1)
Governing the Colonies: The American Experience	70	(1)
Colonial Assemblies	71	(1)
Century of Imperial War	72	(1)
King William's and Queen Anne's Wars	72	(1)
King George's War and Its Aftermath	73	(1)
Albany Congress and Braddock's Defeat	74	(1)
Seven Years' War	74	(3)
Conclusion: Rule Britannia?	77	(3)
We Americans
Learning to Live with Diversity in the Eighteenth Century: What Is an American?	80	(2)
The American Revolution: From Elite Protest to Popular Revolt, 1763--1783	82	(21)
Rethinking the Meaning of Equality	82	(21)
Structure of Colonial Society	83	(1)
Breakdown of Political Trust	83	(1)
No Taxation Without Representation: The American Perspective	84	(1)
Eroding the Bonds of Empire	85	(1)
Popular Protest	86	(1)
Fueling the Crisis	87	(1)
Fatal Show of Force	88	(1)
Last Days of the Old Order, 1770--1773	89	(1)
The Final Provocation: The Boston Tea Party	90	(1)
Steps Toward Independence	91	(1)
Shots Heard Around the World	91	(1)
Beginning ``The World Over Again''	91	(2)
Fighting for Independence	93	(1)
Testing the American Will	94	(1)
Victory in a Year of Defeat	95	(1)
The French Alliance	96	(1)
The Final Campaign	97	(1)
The Loyalist Dilemma	98	(1)
Winning the Peace	99	(2)
Conclusion: Preserving Independence	101	(2)
The Republican Experiment	103	(23)
A New Moral Order	103	(23)
Defining Republican Culture	104	(1)
Living in the Shadow of Revolution	105	(1)
Social and Political Reform	105	(1)
African Americans in the New Republic	106	(1)
The Challenge of Women's Rights	107	(1)
The States: Experiments in Republicanism	108	(1)
Blueprints for State Government	108	(1)
Power to the People	109	(1)
Stumbling Toward a New National Government	109	(1)
Articles of Confederation	110	(1)
Western Land: Key to the First Constitution	110	(2)
Northwest Ordinance: The Confederation's Major Achievement	112	(1)
Strengthening Federal Authority	113	(1)
The Nationalist Critique	114	(1)
Diplomatic Humiliation	115	(1)
``Have We Fought for This?''	116	(1)
A Crisis Mentality	116	(1)
The Philadelphia Convention	117	(1)
Inventing a Federal Republic	117	(1)
Compromise Saves the Convention	118	(1)
Compromising with Slavery	119	(1)
Whose Constitution? Struggle for Ratification	120	(1)
Federalists and Antifederalists	120	(2)
Adding the Bill of Rights	122	(1)
Conclusion: Success Depends on the People	123	(3)
Democracy in Distress: The Violence of Party Politics, 1788--1800	126	(20)
Partisan Passions	126	(20)
Power of Public Opinion	127	(1)
Principle and Pragmatism: Establishing a New Government	127	(2)
Conflicting Visions: Jefferson and Hamilton	129	(1)
Hamilton's Plan for Prosperity and Security	130	(1)
Funding and Assumption	130	(1)
Interpreting the Constitution: The Bank Controversy	131	(1)
Setback for Hamilton	131	(1)
Charges of Treason: The Battle over Foreign Affairs	132	(1)
The Peril of Neutrality	132	(1)
Jay's Treaty Sparks Domestic Unrest	133	(1)
Pushing the Native Americans Aside	134	(1)
Popular Political Culture	135	(1)
Whiskey Rebellion: Charges of Republican Conspiracy	136	(1)
Washington's Farewell	136	(1)
The Adams Presidency	137	(1)
The XYZ Affair and Domestic Politics	137	(1)
Crushing Political Dissent	138	(1)
Silencing Political Opposition: The Alien and Sedition Acts	139	(1)
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions	139	(2)
Adams's Finest Hour	141	(1)
The Peaceful Revolution: The Election of 1800	141	(1)
Conclusion: Danger of Political Extremism	142	(2)
We Americans
Counting the People: The Federal Census of 1790	144	(2)
Republican Ascendancy: The Jeffersonian Vision	146	(19)
Limits of Equality	146	(19)
Regional Identities in a New Republic	147	(1)
Westward the Course of Empire	147	(1)
Commercial Life in the Cities	148	(1)
Jefferson as President	149	(1)
Jeffersonian Reforms	150	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	150	(2)
The Lewis and Clark Expedition	152	(1)
Conflict with the Barbary States	152	(1)
Jefferson's Critics	153	(1)
Attack on the Judges	153	(1)
Politics of Desperation	154	(1)
Murder and Conspiracy: The Curious Career of Aaron Burr	154	(1)
The Slave Trade	155	(1)
Embarrassments Overseas	156	(1)
Embargo Divides the Nation	157	(1)
A New Administration Goes to War	158	(1)
Fumbling Toward Conflict	159	(1)
The Strange War of 1812	159	(2)
Hartford Convention: The Demise of the Federalists	161	(1)
Treaty of Ghent Ends the War	161	(2)
Conclusion: Republican Legacy	163	(2)
Nation Building and Nationalism	165	(19)
A Revolutionary War Hero Revisits America in 1824	165	(19)
Expansion and Migration	166	(1)
Extending the Boundaries	166	(2)
Settlement to the Mississippi	168	(1)
The People and Culture of the Frontier	169	(1)
A Revolution in Transportation	170	(1)
Roads and Steamboats	170	(1)
The Canal Boom	171	(2)
Emergence of a Market Economy	173	(1)
The Beginning of Commercial Agriculture	173	(1)
Commerce and Banking	174	(1)
Early Industrialism	174	(2)
The Politics of Nation Building After the War of 1812	176	(1)
The Republicans in Power	176	(1)
Monroe as President	177	(1)
The Missouri Compromise	177	(2)
Postwar Nationalism and the Supreme Court	179	(1)
Nationalism in Foreign Policy: The Monroe Doctrine	180	(1)
The Troubled Presidency of John Quincy Adams	181	(1)
Conclusion: The End of the Era of Good Feelings	182	(2)
The Triumph of White Men's Democracy	184	(20)
Democratic Space: The New Hotels	184	(20)
Democracy in Theory and Practice	185	(1)
Democracy and Society	185	(1)
Democratic Culture	186	(3)
The Democratic Ferment	189	(1)
Jackson and the Politics of Democracy	190	(1)
The Election of 1824 and J. Q. Adams's Administration	190	(1)
Jackson Comes to Power	191	(1)
Indian Removal	192	(1)
The Nullification Crisis	193	(2)
The Bank War and the Second Party System	195	(1)
Biddle, the Bank Veto, and the Election of 1832	195	(2)
Killing the Bank	197	(1)
The Emergence of the Whigs	197	(1)
The Rise and Fall of Van Buren	198	(2)
Heyday of the Second Party System	200	(1)
Conclusion: Tocqueville's Wisdom	201	(3)
Slaves and Masters	204	(22)
Nat Turner's Rebellion: A Turning Point in the Slave South	204	(22)
The Divided Society of the Old South	205	(1)
The World of Southern Blacks	205	(1)
Slaves' Daily Life and Labor	206	(1)
Slave Families, Kinship, and Community	207	(1)
African American Religion	208	(1)
Resistance and Rebellion	209	(1)
Free Blacks in the Old South	210	(2)
White Society in the Antebellum South	212	(1)
The Planters' World	212	(1)
Planters and Paternalism	213	(1)
Small Slaveholders	214	(1)
Yeoman Farmers	214	(1)
A Closed Mind and a Closed Society	215	(1)
Slavery and the Southern Economy	216	(1)
The Internal Slave Trade	216	(1)
The Rise of the Cotton Kingdom	217	(2)
Slavery and Industrialization	219	(1)
The ``Profitability'' Issue	220	(2)
Conclusion: Worlds in Conflict	222	(2)
We Americans
Women of Southern Households	224	(2)
The Pursuit of Perfection	226	(18)
Redeeming the Middle Class	226	(18)
The Rise of Evangelicalism	227	(1)
The Second Great Awakening: The Frontier Phase	227	(1)
The Second Great Awakening in the North	228	(1)
From Revivalism to Reform	229	(2)
Domesticity and Changes in the American Family	231	(1)
Marriage for Love	231	(1)
The Cult of Domesticity	232	(1)
The Discovery of Childhood	233	(1)
Institutional Reform	234	(1)
The Extension of Education	234	(1)
Discovering the Asylum	235	(1)
Reform Turns Radical	236	(1)
Divisions in the Benevolent Empire	236	(1)
The Abolitionist Enterprise	237	(1)
Black Abolitionists	238	(1)
From Abolitionism to Women's Rights	239	(1)
Radical Ideas and Experiments	239	(2)
Conclusion: Counterpoint on Reform	241	(3)
An Age of Expansionism	244	(22)
The Spirit of Young America	244	(22)
Movement to the Far West	245	(1)
Borderlands of the 1830s	245	(2)
The Texas Revolution	247	(1)
The Republic of Texas	247	(1)
Trails of Trade and Settlement	248	(1)
The Mormon Trek	249	(2)
Manifest Destiny and the Mexican-American War	251	(1)
Tyler and Texas	251	(1)
The Triumph of Polk and Annexation	251	(1)
The Doctrine of Manifest Destiny	252	(1)
Polk and the Oregon Question	253	(1)
War with Mexico	254	(1)
Settlement of the Mexican-American War	255	(1)
Internal Expansionism	256	(1)
The Triumph of the Railroad	257	(1)
The Industrial Revolution Takes Off	257	(2)
Mass Immigration Begins	259	(1)
The New Working Class	260	(2)
Conclusion: The Costs of Expansion	262	(2)
We Americans
The Irish in Boston, 1845--1865	264	(2)
The Sectional Crisis	266	(21)
The Brooks--Sumner Brawl in Congress	266	(21)
The Compromise of 1850	267	(1)
The Problem of Slavery in the Mexican Cession	267	(1)
The Wilmot Proviso Launches the Free-Soil Movement	267	(1)
Squatter Sovereignty and the Election of 1848	268	(1)
Taylor Takes Charge	268	(1)
Forging a Compromise	269	(1)
Political Upheaval, 1852--1856	270	(1)
The Party System in Crisis	271	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act Raises a Storm	271	(2)
An Appeal to Nativism: The Know-Nothing Episode	273	(1)
Kansas and the Rise of the Republicans	274	(1)
Sectional Division in the Election of 1856	275	(1)
The House Divided, 1857--1860	275	(1)
Cultural Sectionalism	276	(1)
The Dred Scott Case	276	(1)
The Lecompton Controversy	277	(1)
Debating the Morality of Slavery	278	(1)
The South's Crisis of Fear	278	(2)
The Election of 1860	280	(1)
Conclusion: Explaining the Crisis	281	(4)
We Americans
Hispanic America After 1848: A Case Study in Majority Rule	285	(2)
Secession and the Civil War	287	(23)
The Emergence of Lincoln	287	(23)
The Storm Gathers	288	(1)
The Deep South Secedes	288	(2)
The Failure of Compromise	290	(1)
And the War Came	290	(2)
Adjusting to Total War	292	(1)
Prospects, Plans, and Expectations	292	(1)
Mobilizing the Home Fronts	293	(2)
Political Leadership: Northern Success and Southern Failure	295	(2)
Early Campaigns and Battles	297	(2)
The Diplomatic Struggle	299	(1)
Fight to the Finish	300	(1)
The Coming of Emancipation	300	(1)
African Americans and the War	301	(1)
The Tide Turns	301	(2)
Last Stages of the Conflict	303	(2)
Effects of the War	305	(2)
Conclusion: An Organizational Revolution	307	(3)
The Agony of Reconstruction	310	(21)
Robert Smalls and Black Politicians During Reconstruction	310	(21)
The President versus Congress	311	(1)
Wartime Reconstruction	312	(1)
Andrew Johnson at the Helm	313	(1)
Congress Takes the Initiative	314	(1)
Congressional Reconstruction Plan Enacted	315	(1)
The Impeachment Crisis	316	(1)
Reconstructing Southern Society	317	(1)
Reorganizing Land and Labor	317	(1)
Black Codes: A New Name for Slavery?	318	(1)
Republican Rule in the South	319	(1)
Claiming Public and Private Rights	320	(2)
Retreat from Reconstruction	322	(1)
Rise of the Money Question	322	(1)
Final Efforts of Reconstruction	323	(2)
Spoilsmen versus Reformers	325	(1)
Reunion and the New South	326	(1)
The Compromise of 1877	326	(1)
``Redeeming'' a New South	327	(1)
The Rise of Jim Crow	328	(1)
Conclusion: The ``Unfinished Revolution''	329	(2)
The West: Exploiting an Empire	331	(22)
Lean Bear's Changing West	331	(22)
Beyond the Frontier	332	(1)
Crushing the Native Americans	332	(1)
Life of the Plains Indians	333	(1)
``As Long as Waters Run'': Searching for an Indian Policy	333	(2)
Final Battles on the Plains	335	(1)
The End of Tribal Life	335	(2)
Settlement of the West	337	(1)
Men and Women on the Overland Trail	337	(1)
Land for the Taking	338	(2)
The Spanish-Speaking Southwest	340	(1)
The Bonanza West	340	(1)
The Mining Bonanza	341	(2)
Gold from the Roots Up: The Cattle Bonanza	343	(2)
Sodbusters on the Plains: The Farming Bonanza	345	(1)
New Farming Methods	346	(1)
Discontent on the Farm	346	(1)
The Final Fling	347	(1)
Conclusion: The Meaning of the West	347	(4)
We Americans
Blacks in Blue: The Buffalo Soldiers in the West	351	(2)
The Industrial Society	353	(18)
A Machine Culture	353	(18)
Industrial Development	354	(1)
An Empire on Rails	355	(1)
Building the Empire	356	(1)
Linking the Nation via Trunk Lines	356	(1)
Rails Across the Continent	357	(1)
Problems of Growth	357	(1)
An Industrial Empire	358	(1)
Carnegie and Steel	358	(1)
Rockefeller and Oil	359	(2)
The Business of Invention	361	(1)
The Sellers	362	(1)
The Wage Earners	363	(1)
Working Men, Working Women, Working Children	363	(1)
Culture of Work	364	(1)
Labor Unions	365	(1)
Labor Unrest	366	(2)
Conclusion: Industrialization's Benefits and Costs	368	(3)
Toward an Urban Society, 1877--1900	371	(19)
The Overcrowded City	371	(19)
The Lure of the City	372	(1)
Skyscrapers and Suburbs	372	(1)
Tenements and the Problems of Overcrowding	373	(1)
Strangers in a New Land	373	(1)
Immigrants and the City	374	(1)
The House That Tweed Built	375	(1)
Social and Cultural Change, 1877--1900	376	(1)
Manners and Mores	377	(1)
Leisure and Entertainment	378	(1)
Changes in Family Life	379	(1)
Changing Views: A Growing Assertiveness Among Women	380	(1)
Educating the Masses	380	(1)
Higher Education	381	(2)
The Stirrings of Reform	383	(1)
New Currents in Social Thought	383	(2)
The Settlement Houses	385	(1)
A Crisis in Social Welfare	385	(1)
Conclusion: The Pluralistic Society	386	(2)
We Americans
Ellis Island: Isle of Hope, Isle of Tears	388	(2)
Political Realignments in the 1890s	390	(17)
Hardship and Heartache	390	(17)
Politics of Stalemate	391	(1)
The Party Deadlock	391	(1)
Experiments in the States	392	(1)
Reestablishing Presidential Power	392	(1)
Republicans in Power: The Billion-Dollar Congress	393	(1)
The Rise of the Populist Movement	394	(1)
The Farm Problem	394	(1)
The Fast-Growing Farmers' Alliance	395	(1)
The People's Party	396	(1)
The Crisis of the Depression	396	(1)
Coxey's Army and the Pullman Strike	397	(1)
The Miners of the Midwest	397	(2)
A Beleaguered President	399	(1)
Breaking the Party Deadlock	399	(1)
Changing Attitudes	399	(1)
``Everybody Works But Father''	400	(1)
Changing Themes in Literature	400	(1)
The Presidential Election of 1896	401	(1)
The Mystique of Silver	401	(1)
The Campaign and Election	401	(2)
The McKinley Administration	403	(1)
Conclusion: A Decade's Dramatic Changes	404	(3)
Toward Empire	407	(19)
Roosevelt and the Rough Riders	407	(19)
America Looks Outward	408	(1)
Catching the Spirit of Empire	408	(1)
Foreign Policy Approaches, 1867--1900	409	(2)
The Lure of Hawaii and Samoa	411	(1)
The New Navy	412	(1)
War with Spain	413	(1)
A War for Principle	413	(2)
``A Splendid Little War''	415	(1)
``Smoked Yankees''	415	(1)
The Course of the War	416	(2)
Acquisition of Empire	418	(1)
Guerrilla Warfare in the Philippines	419	(2)
Governing the Empire	421	(1)
The Open Door	422	(2)
Conclusion: Outcome of the War with Spain	424	(2)
The Progressive Era	426	(16)
Muckrakers Call for Reform	426	(16)
The Changing Face of Industrialism	427	(1)
The Innovative Model T	427	(1)
The Burgeoning Trusts	428	(1)
Managing the Machines	428	(1)
Society's Masses	429	(1)
Better Times on the Farm	430	(1)
Women and Children at Work	431	(1)
The Niagara Movement and the NAACP	432	(1)
``I Hear the Whistle'': Immigrants in the Labor Force	432	(2)
Conflict in the Workplace	434	(1)
A New Urban Culture	435	(2)
Popular Pastimes	437	(1)
Experimentation in the Arts	438	(2)
Conclusion: A Ferment of Discovery and Reform	440	(2)
From Roosevelt to Wilson in the Age of Progressivism	442	(22)
The Republicans Split	442	(22)
The Spirit of Progressivism	443	(1)
The Rise of the Professions	443	(1)
The Social-Justice Movement	444	(1)
The Purity Crusade	445	(1)
Woman Suffrage, Women's Rights	445	(1)
A Ferment of Ideas: Challenging the Status Quo	446	(2)
Reform in the Cities and States	448	(1)
Interest Groups and the Decline of Popular Politics	448	(1)
Reform in the Cities	449	(1)
Action in the States	450	(1)
The Republican Roosevelt	451	(1)
Busting the Trusts	451	(1)
``Square Deal'' in the Coalfields	452	(1)
Roosevelt Progressivism at Its Height	453	(1)
The Ordeal of William Howard Taft	454	(1)
Party Insurgency	455	(1)
The Ballinger-Pinchot Affair	456	(1)
Taft Alienates the Progressives	456	(1)
Differing Philosophies in the Election of 1912	457	(1)
Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom	458	(1)
The New Freedom in Action	458	(1)
Wilson Moves Toward the New Nationalism	459	(2)
Conclusion: The Fruits of Progressivism	461	(3)
The Nation at War	464	(22)
The Sinking of the Lusitania	464	(22)
A New World Power	465	(1)
``I Took the Canal Zone''	465	(1)
The Roosevelt Corollary	466	(1)
Ventures in the Far East	467	(1)
Foreign Policy Under Wilson	468	(1)
Conducting Moral Diplomacy	468	(1)
Troubles Across the Border	468	(2)
Toward War	470	(1)
The Neutrality Policy	470	(1)
Freedom of the Seas	471	(1)
The U-Boat Threat	471	(1)
``He Kept Us Out of War''	472	(1)
The Final Months of Peace	472	(2)
Over There	474	(1)
Mobilization	474	(1)
War in the Trenches	474	(2)
Over Here	476	(1)
The Conquest of Convictions	476	(1)
A Bureaucratic War	477	(1)
Labor in the War	478	(1)
The Treaty of Versailles	479	(1)
A Peace at Paris	480	(2)
Rejection in the Senate	482	(1)
Conclusion: Postwar Disillusionment	483	(3)
Transition to Modern America	486	(17)
Wheels for the Millions	486	(17)
The Second Industrial Revolution	487	(1)
The Automobile Industry	487	(1)
Patterns of Economic Growth	488	(1)
Economic Weaknesses	489	(1)
City Life in the Jazz Age	490	(1)
Women and the Family	490	(1)
The Roaring Twenties	491	(1)
Flowering of the Arts	492	(1)
The Rural Counterattack	493	(1)
The Fear of Radicalism	494	(1)
Prohibition	495	(1)
The Ku Klux Klan	495	(1)
Immigration Restriction	496	(1)
The Fundamentalist Challenge	497	(1)
Politics of the 1920s	498	(1)
Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover	498	(1)
Republican Policies	499	(1)
The Divided Democrats	499	(1)
The Election of 1928	500	(1)
Conclusion: The Old and the New	501	(2)
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal	503	(19)
The Struggle Against Despair	503	(19)
The Great Depression	504	(1)
The Great Crash	504	(1)
Effect of the Depression	505	(1)
Fighting the Depression	506	(1)
Hoover and Voluntarism	506	(1)
The Emergence of Roosevelt	507	(1)
The Hundred Days	507	(1)
Roosevelt and Recovery	508	(1)
Roosevelt and Relief	509	(2)
Roosevelt and Reform	511	(1)
Challenges to FDR	511	(1)
Social Security	512	(1)
Labor Legislation	513	(1)
Impact of the New Deal	513	(1)
Rise of Organized Labor	513	(2)
The New Deal Record on Help to Minorities	515	(1)
Women at Work	515	(1)
End of the New Deal	516	(1)
The Election of 1936	516	(1)
The Supreme Court Fight	517	(1)
The New Deal in Decline	517	(1)
Conclusion: Evaluation of the New Deal	518	(4)
America and the World, 1921--1945	522	(21)
A Pact Without Power	522	(21)
Retreat, Reversal, and Rivalry	523	(1)
Retreat in Europe	523	(1)
Cooperation in Latin America	524	(1)
Rivalry in Asia	524	(1)
Isolationism	525	(1)
The Lure of Pacifism and Neutrality	526	(1)
War in Europe	526	(2)
The Road to War	528	(1)
From Neutrality to Undeclared War	528	(1)
Showdown in the Pacific	529	(2)
Turning the Tide Against the Axis	531	(1)
Wartime Partnerships	532	(1)
Halting the German Blitz	532	(2)
Checking Japan in the Pacific	534	(1)
The Home Front	535	(1)
The Arsenal of Democracy	535	(1)
A Nation on the Move	536	(2)
Win-the-War Politics	538	(1)
Victory	538	(1)
War Aims and Wartime Diplomacy	539	(1)
Triumph and Tragedy in the Pacific	540	(1)
Conclusion: The Transforming Power of War	541	(2)
The Onset of the Cold War	543	(22)
The Potsdam Summit	543	(22)
The Cold War Begins	544	(1)
The Division of Europe	544	(1)
Withholding Economic Aid	545	(1)
The Atomic Dilemma	546	(1)
Containment	546	(1)
The Truman Doctrine	547	(1)
The Marshall Plan	547	(1)
The Western Military Alliance	548	(1)
The Berlin Blockade	549	(1)
The Cold War Expands	550	(1)
The Military Dimension	550	(1)
The Cold War in Asia	551	(1)
The Korean War	552	(2)
The Cold War at Home	554	(1)
Truman's Troubles and Vindication	554	(1)
The Loyalty Issue	555	(1)
McCarthyism in Action	556	(1)
The Republicans in Power	557	(1)
Eisenhower Wages the Cold War	558	(1)
Entanglement in Indochina	558	(1)
Containing China	559	(1)
Turmoil in the Middle East	560	(1)
Covert Actions	560	(1)
Waging Peace	561	(1)
Conclusion: The Continuing Cold War	562	(3)
Affluence and Anxiety	565	(12)
Levittown: The Flight to the Suburbs	565	(12)
The Postwar Boom	566	(1)
Postwar Prosperity	566	(1)
Life in the Suburbs	567	(1)
The Good Life?	568	(1)
Areas of Greatest Growth	568	(1)
Critics of the Consumer Society	568	(1)
The Reaction to Sputnik	569	(1)
Farewell to Reform	570	(1)
Truman and the Fair Deal	570	(1)
Eisenhower's Modern Republicanism	570	(2)
The Struggle over Civil Rights	572	(1)
Civil Rights as a Political Issue	572	(1)
Desegregating the Schools	573	(1)
The Beginnings of Black Activism	573	(2)
Conclusion: Restoring National Confidence	575	(2)
The Turbulent Sixties	577	(30)
Kennedy versus Nixon: The First Televised Presidential Candidate Debate	577	(30)
Kennedy Intensifies the Cold War	578	(1)
Flexible Response	578	(1)
Crisis over Berlin	579	(1)
Containment in Southeast Asia	579	(1)
Containing Castro: The Bay of Pigs Fiasco	580	(1)
Containing Castro: The Cuban Missile Crisis	581	(1)
The New Frontier at Home	582	(1)
The Congressional Obstacle and Economic Advance	582	(1)
Moving Slowly on Civil Rights	583	(1)
``I Have a Dream''	584	(1)
The Supreme Court and Reform	585	(1)
``Let Us Continue''	586	(1)
Johnson in Action	586	(1)
The Election of 1964	587	(1)
The Triumph of Reform	588	(1)
Johnson Escalates the Vietnam War	589	(1)
The Vietnam Dilemma	590	(1)
Escalation	590	(2)
Stalemate	592	(1)
Years of Turmoil	593	(1)
The Student Revolt	593	(1)
Protesting the Vietnam War	594	(1)
The Cultural Revolution	595	(1)
``Black Power''	595	(1)
Ethnic Nationalism	596	(1)
Women's Liberation	597	(1)
The Return of Richard Nixon	598	(1)
Vietnam Undermines Lyndon Johnson	598	(1)
Democrats Divided	599	(2)
The Republican Resurgence	601	(1)
Conclusion: The End of an Era	601	(4)
We Americans
Unintended Consequences: The Second Great Migration	605	(2)
A Crisis in Confidence, 1969--1980	607	(22)
The Watergate Break-in	607	(22)
Nixon in Power	608	(1)
Reshaping the Great Society	608	(1)
Nixonomics	609	(1)
Building a Republican Majority	610	(1)
In Search of Detente	610	(1)
Ending the Vietnam War	611	(1)
The Crisis of Democracy	612	(1)
The Election of 1972	612	(1)
The Watergate Scandal	613	(1)
Energy and the Economy	614	(1)
The October War	614	(1)
The Oil Shocks	615	(1)
The Search for an Energy Policy	616	(1)
The Great Inflation	617	(1)
The Shifting American Economy	617	(1)
Private Lives---Public Issues	618	(1)
The Changing American Family	618	(1)
Gains and Setbacks for Women	618	(2)
The Gay Liberation Movement	620	(2)
Politics After Watergate	622	(1)
The Ford Administration and the 1976 Campaign	622	(1)
Disenchantment with Carter	623	(1)
From Detente to Renewed Cold War	624	(1)
Retreat in Asia	624	(1)
Accommodation in Latin America	624	(1)
The Quest for Peace in the Middle East	625	(1)
The Cold War Resumes	626	(1)
Conclusion: A Failed Presidency	627	(2)
The Republican Resurgence, 1980--1992	629	(25)
Reagan and the Rise of Conservatism	629	(25)
Reagan in Power	630	(1)
The Reagan Victory	631	(1)
Cutting Spending and Taxes	632	(1)
Limiting the Role of Government	633	(1)
Reaganomics	634	(1)
Recession and Recovery	634	(1)
The Growing Deficit	634	(1)
The Rich Grow Richer	635	(1)
Reagan Affirmed	636	(1)
Reagan and the World	637	(1)
Challenging the ``Evil Empire''	638	(1)
Turmoil in the Middle East	638	(1)
Confrontation in Central America	639	(2)
Trading Arms for Hostages	641	(1)
Reagan the Peacemaker	642	(1)
Social Dilemmas	643	(1)
The AIDS Epidemic	643	(2)
The War on Drugs	645	(1)
Passing the Torch to Bush	646	(1)
The Changing Palace Guard	646	(1)
The Election of 1988	647	(1)
Bush's Domestic Agenda	648	(1)
The End of the Cold War	649	(1)
Waging Peace	650	(2)
Conclusion: Republican Economic Woes	652	(2)
America in Flux	654
The Buck Starts Here	654
The Changing American Population	655	(1)
A People on the Move	656	(1)
The Revival of Immigration	657	(1)
The Surging Hispanics	657	(1)
Advance and Retreat for African Americans	658	(1)
Americans from Asia and the Middle East	659	(1)
Melting Pot or Multiethnic Diversity?	660	(1)
Democratic Revival	661	(1)
The Election of 1992	661	(1)
Economic Recovery	662	(1)
President versus Congress	663	(2)
Contract with America	665	(1)
The Clinton Rebound	666	(1)
Clinton and the World	667	(1)
Global Tensions in the Post--Cold War Era	668	(1)
Intervening in Somalia and Haiti	669	(1)
Halting Civil War in Bosnia	669	(2)
Saving Kosovo	671	(1)
The End of the Century	672	(1)
From Deficit to Surplus	672	(1)
Violence in the 1990s	673	(2)
Shadow on the White House	675	(1)
The New Millennium	676	(1)
The Disputed Election of 2000	677	(2)
Bush's Domestic Agenda	679	(2)
Terrorism: Attack and Counterattack	681	(3)
The New American Empire?	684	(3)
Conclusion: The American Century?	687
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Credits	1	(1)
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