The American Journey

by Goldfield, David R.; Abbott, Carl; Anderson, Virginia Dejohn; Argersinger, Jo Ann E.

• ISBN13: 9780131194335
• ISBN10: 013119433X
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-15
• Publisher: PRENTICE HALL SCHOOL GROUP

Table of Contents

American Views	xvi
From Then to Now	xvii
Maps	xvii
Overview Tables	xix
About the Authors	xx
Preface	xxi
Student Tool Kit	xxvii
Worlds Apart	2	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Moctezuma	4	(1)
Different Worlds	4	(14)
Native American Societies Before 1492	6	(5)
Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions	11	(1)
West African Societies	12	(4)
Western Europe on the Eve of Discovery	16	(2)
Contact	18	(6)
The Lure of Discovery	18	(1)
Christopher Columbus	19	(1)
Spanish Conquest and Colonization	20	(3)
The Columbian Exchange	23	(1)
Competition for a Continent	24	(4)
Early French Efforts in North America	24	(1)
English Attempts in the New World	25	(3)
Conclusion	28	(1)
Summary	28	(1)
Review Questions	29	(1)
Key Terms	29	(1)
Where to Learn More	29	(1)
Transplantation, 1600---1685	30	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: Thomas Dudley	32	(1)
The French in North America	33	(1)
The Development of New France	33	(1)
The Fur Trade	34	(1)
English Settlement in the Chesapeake	34	(6)
The Ordeal of Early Virginia	35	(2)
The Importance of Tobacco	37	(2)
Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics	39	(1)
The Founding of New England	40	(5)
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony	40	(1)
Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoot	41	(2)
Families; Farms; and Communities in Early New England	43	(2)
Competition in the Caribbean	45	(1)
Sugar and Slaves	45	(1)
A Biracial Society	45	(1)
The Proprietary Colonies	46	(5)
Early Carolina	48	(2)
Pennsylvania: The Dream of Tolerance and Peace	50	(1)
The Dutch Overseas Empire	51	(2)
The West India Company and New Netherland	51	(1)
New Netherland Becomes New York	52	(1)
Conclusion	53	(1)
Summary	54	(1)
Review Questions	54	(1)
Key Terms	55	(1)
Where to Learn More	55	(1)
The Creation of New Worlds	56	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Olaudah Equiano	58	(1)
Indians and Europeans	59	(9)
Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands	59	(1)
The Web of Trade	60	(1)
Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies	61	(1)
Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples	62	(2)
After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War	64	(4)
Africans and Europeans	68	(7)
Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery	68	(3)
The Shock of Enslavement	71	(1)
African-American Families and Communities	72	(2)
Resistance and Rebellion	74	(1)
European Laborers in North America	75	(2)
A Spectrum of Control	75	(1)
New European Immigrants	76	(1)
Conclusion	77	(1)
Summary	78	(1)
Review Questions	78	(1)
Key Terms	79	(1)
Where To Learn More	79	(1)
Convergence and Conflict	80	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: George Washington	82	(1)
Economic Development and Imperial Trade in the British Colonies	83	(5)
The Regulation of Trade	83	(1)
The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise	84	(2)
The Import Trade and Ties of Credit	86	(1)
Becoming More Like England	87	(1)
The Transformation of Culture	88	(5)
Goods and Houses	88	(1)
Shaping Minds and Manners	89	(1)
Colonial Religion and the Great Awakening	90	(3)
The Colonial Political World	93	(4)
The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control	93	(1)
The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution	94	(1)
Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain	95	(2)
Expanding Empires	97	(3)
British Colonists in the Backcountry	97	(1)
The Spanish in Texas and California	98	(1)
The French Along the Mississippi and in Louisiana	99	(1)
A Century of Warfare	100	(5)
Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689--1738	100	(2)
King George's War Shifts the Balance, 1739--1754	102	(1)
The French and Indian War, 1754--1760: A Decisive Victory	102	(2)
The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763	104	(1)
Conclusion	105	(1)
Summary	105	(1)
Review Questions	106	(1)
Key Terms	107	(1)
Where to Learn More	107	(1)
Imperial Breakdown, 1763--1774	108	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Eliza Farmer	110	(1)
Imperial Reorganization	111	(3)
British Problems	112	(1)
Dealing with the New Territories	112	(2)
Indian Affairs	114	(2)
Curbing the Assemblies	115	(1)
The Sugar and Stamp Acts	116	(1)
American Reactions	116	(3)
Constitutional Issues	117	(1)
Taxation and the Political Culture	117	(1)
Protesting the Taxes	118	(1)
The Aftermath of the Stamp Act Crisis	119	(2)
A Strained Relationship	119	(1)
Regulator Movements	120	(1)
The Townshend Crisis	121	(4)
Townshend's Plan	121	(1)
American Boycott	121	(1)
The Boston Massacre	122	(1)
The ``Quiet Period''	123	(1)
The Boston Tea Party	124	(1)
The Intolerable Acts	124	(1)
The Road to Revolution	125	(3)
American Response to the Intolerable Acts	125	(1)
The First Continental Congress	125	(2)
The Continental Association	127	(1)
Political Divisions	127	(1)
Conclusion	128	(1)
Summary	129	(1)
Review Questions	130	(1)
Key Terms	130	(1)
Where to Learn More	130	(2)
The War for Independence, 1774--1783	132	(34)
Voices from the American Journey: John Laurens	134	(1)
The Outbreak of War and the Declaration of Independence, 1774--1776	135	(7)
Mounting Tensions	135	(1)
The Loyalists' Dilemma	136	(1)
British Coercion and Conciliation	136	(1)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord	136	(1)
The Second Continental Congress, 1775--1776	137	(1)
Commander in Chief George Washington	137	(1)
Early Fighting	138	(1)
Independence	138	(4)
Republicanism	142	(1)
The Combatants	142	(5)
Professional Soldiers	142	(3)
Women in the Contending Armies	145	(1)
African-American and Native-American Participation in the War	145	(2)
The War in the North, 1776--1777	147	(2)
The British Army Hesitates	147	(1)
The Year of the Hangman	147	(2)
The War Widens, 1778--1781	149	(6)
The United States Gains an Ally	149	(1)
Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea	150	(2)
The Land War Moves South	152	(1)
American Counterattacks	152	(3)
The American Victory, 1782--1783	155	(3)
The Peace of Paris	156	(1)
The Components of Success	156	(2)
War and Society, 1775--1783	158	(2)
The Women's War	158	(1)
Effect of the War on African Americans and Native Americans	158	(2)
The Price of Victory	160	(1)
Conclusion	160	(1)
Summary	161	(1)
Review Questions	162	(1)
Key Terms	162	(1)
Where to Learn More	163	(3)
Visualizing the Past: The Rattlesnake as a National Symbol	164	(2)
The First Republic, 1776--1789	166	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: William Shepard	168	(1)
The New Order of Republicanism	169	(6)
Defining the People	169	(3)
The State Constitutions	172	(2)
The Articles of Confederation	174	(1)
Problems at Home	175	(6)
The Fiscal Crisis	175	(1)
Economic Depression	176	(1)
The Economic Policies of the States	177	(2)
Congress and the West	179	(2)
Diplomatic Weaknesses	181	(2)
Impasse with Britain	182	(1)
Spain and the Mississippi River	183	(1)
Toward a New Union	183	(7)
The Road to Philadelphia	184	(1)
The Convention at Work	184	(2)
Overview of the Constitution	186	(2)
The Struggle over Ratification	188	(2)
Conclusion	190	(1)
Summary	191	(1)
Review Questions	192	(1)
Key Terms	192	(1)
Where to Learn More	193	(1)
A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789--1800	194	(22)
Voices from the American Journey: William Maclay	196	(1)
Washington's America	197	(4)
The Uniformity of New England	197	(1)
Mid-Atlantic Pluralism	198	(1)
The Slave South and Its Backcountry	198	(1)
The Growing West	199	(2)
Forging a New Government	201	(4)
``Mr. President'' and the Bill of Rights	201	(1)
Departments and Courts	202	(1)
Revenue and Trade	203	(1)
Hamilton and the Public Credit	203	(1)
Reaction and Opposition	204	(1)
The Emergence of Parties	205	(5)
The French Revolution	205	(2)
Securing the Frontier	207	(1)
The Whiskey Rebellion	208	(1)
Treaties with Britain and Spain	208	(2)
The First Partisan Election	210	(1)
The Last Federalist Administration	210	(3)
The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair	211	(1)
Crisis at Home	211	(1)
The End of the Federalists	212	(1)
Conclusion	213	(1)
Summary	214	(1)
Review Questions	215	(1)
Key Terms	215	(1)
Where to Learn More	215	(1)
The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800--1824	216	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Rosalie Calvert	218	(1)
Jefferson's Presidency	219	(5)
Reform at Home	219	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	220	(1)
Florida and Western Schemes	220	(3)
Embargo and a Crippled Presidency	223	(1)
Madison and the Coming of War	224	(2)
The Failure of Economic Sanctions	224	(1)
The Frontier and Indian Resistance	225	(1)
Decision for War	226	(1)
The War of 1812	226	(5)
Setbacks in Canada	229	(1)
Western Victories and British Offensives	229	(1)
The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans	230	(1)
The Era of Good Feelings	231	(2)
Economic Nationalism	231	(1)
Judicial Nationalism	232	(1)
Toward a Continental Empire	232	(1)
The Breakdown of Unity	233	(4)
The Panic of 1819	233	(2)
The Missouri Compromise	235	(2)
The Election of 1824	237	(1)
Conclusion	237	(1)
Summary	238	(1)
Review Questions	238	(1)
Key Terms	239	(1)
Where to Learn More	239	(1)
The Jacksonian Era, 1824--1845	240	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Benjamin B. French	242	(1)
The Egalitarian Impulse	243	(4)
The Extension of White Male Democracy	243	(1)
The Popular Religious Revolt	244	(2)
The Rise of the Jacksonians	246	(1)
Jackson's Presidency	247	(7)
The Jacksonian Appeal	248	(1)
Indian Removal	249	(2)
The Nullification Crisis	251	(2)
The Bank War	253	(1)
Van Buren and Hard Times	254	(2)
The Panic of 1837	254	(1)
The Independent Treasury	255	(1)
Uproar over Slavery	256	(1)
The Rise of the Whig Party	256	(3)
The Party Taking Shape	256	(1)
Whig Persuasion	257	(1)
The Election of 1840	258	(1)
The Whigs in Power	259	(2)
Harrison and Tyler	259	(1)
The Texas Issue	260	(1)
The Election of 1844	261	(1)
Conclusion	261	(1)
Summary	262	(1)
Review Questions	263	(1)
Key Terms	263	(1)
Where to Learn More	263	(1)
Slavery and the Old South, 1800--1860	264	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Hannah Crafts	266	(1)
The Lower South	267	(3)
Cotton and Slaves	267	(1)
The Profits of Slavery	268	(2)
The Upper South	270	(2)
A Period of Economic Adjustment	270	(2)
The Decline of Slavery	272	(1)
Slave Life and Culture	272	(5)
Work Routines and Living Conditions	273	(1)
Families and Religion	274	(1)
Resistance	275	(2)
Free Society	277	(5)
The Slaveholding Minority	278	(2)
The White Majority	280	(1)
Free Black People	281	(1)
The Proslavery Argument	282	(3)
Conclusion	285	(1)
Summary	285	(1)
Review Questions	286	(1)
Key Terms	286	(1)
Where to Learn More	286	(2)
The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815--1850	288	(36)
Voices from the American Journey: Angelina Grimke	290	(1)
Industrial Change and Urbanization	291	(4)
The Transportation Revolution	292	(3)
Cities and Immigrants	295	(11)
The Industrial Revolution	297	(4)
Growing Inequality and New Classes	301	(5)
Reform and Moral Order	306	(4)
The Benevolent Empire	306	(1)
The Temperance Movement	307	(1)
Women's Roles in Reform	308	(2)
Backlash Against Benevolence	310	(1)
Institutions and Social Improvement	310	(5)
School Reform	311	(1)
Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums	312	(1)
Utopian Alternatives	313	(2)
Abolitionism and Women's Rights	315	(6)
Rejecting Colonization	315	(1)
Abolitionism	316	(1)
The Women's Rights Movement	317	(3)
Political Antislavery	320	(1)
Conclusion	321	(1)
Summary	321	(1)
Review Questions	322	(1)
Key Terms	322	(1)
Where to Learn More	323	(1)
The Way West, 1815--1850	324	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: George Catlin	326	(1)
The Agricultural Frontier	327	(6)
The Crowded East	327	(2)
The Old Northwest	329	(2)
The Old Southwest	331	(2)
The Frontier of the Plains Indians	333	(5)
Tribal Lands	333	(2)
The Fur Traders	335	(1)
The Oregon Trail	336	(2)
The Mexican Borderlands	338	(5)
The Peoples of the Southwest	338	(1)
The Americanization of Texas	339	(3)
The Push into California and the Southwest	342	(1)
Politics, Expansion, and War	343	(3)
Manifest Destiny	343	(1)
The Mexican War	344	(2)
Conclusion	346	(2)
Summary	348	(1)
Key Terms	349	(1)
Where to Learn More	349	(1)
The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846--1861	350	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Harriet Beecher Stowe	352	(1)
Slavery in the Territories	353	(6)
The Wilmot Proviso	353	(1)
The Election of 1848	354	(1)
The Compromise of 1850	355	(2)
Response to the Fugitive Slave Act	357	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin	358	(1)
The Election of 1852	359	(1)
Political Realignment	359	(6)
Young America's Foreign Misadventures	360	(1)
Stephen Douglas's Railroad Proposal	360	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	360	(1)
``Bleeding Kansas''	361	(1)
Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics	361	(1)
The Election of 1856	362	(1)
The Dred Scott Case	363	(1)
The Lecompton Constitution	364	(1)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	364	(1)
The Road to Disunion	365	(10)
North-South Differences	366	(1)
John Brown's Raid	367	(1)
The Election of 1860	368	(1)
Secession Begins	369	(2)
Presidential Inaction	371	(1)
Peace Proposals	371	(1)
Lincoln's Views on Secession	371	(2)
Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes	373	(2)
Conclusion	375	(1)
Summary	375	(1)
Review Questions	376	(1)
Key Terms	376	(1)
Where to Learn More	377	(1)
Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861--1865	378	(36)
Voices from the American Journey: Sullivan Ballou	380	(1)
Mobilization, North and South	381	(4)
War Fever	381	(2)
The North's Advantage in Resources	383	(1)
Leaders, Governments, and Strategies	384	(1)
The Early War, 1861--1862	385	(3)
First Bull Run	385	(1)
The War in the West	385	(1)
Reassessing the War: The Human Toll	386	(2)
The War in the East	388	(1)
Turning Points, 1862--1863	388	(9)
The Naval War and Diplomatic War	389	(1)
Antietam	390	(1)
Emancipation	390	(3)
From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg	393	(1)
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West	393	(4)
War Transforms the North	397	(1)
Wartime Legislation and Politics	397	(1)
Conscription and the Draft Riots	398	(2)
The Northern Economy	398	(1)
Northern Women and the War	399	(1)
The Confederacy Disintegrates	400	(1)
Southern Politics	400	(1)
The Southern Economy	400	(1)
Southern Women and the War	401	(1)
The Union Prevails, 1864--1865	401	(6)
Grant's Plan to End the War	402	(3)
The Election of 1864 and Sherman's March	405	(1)
The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln	406	(1)
Conclusion	407	(2)
Summary	409	(1)
Review Questions	410	(1)
Key Terms	411	(1)
Where to Learn More	411	(3)
Visualizing the Past: The Civil War	412	(2)
Reconstruction, 1865--1877	414	(25)
Voices from the American Journey: T. Thomas Fortune	416	(1)
White Southerners and the Ghosts of the Confederacy, 1865	417	(1)
More than Freedom: African-American Aspirations in 1865	418	(3)
Education	418	(1)
``Forty Acres and a Mule''	419	(1)
Migration to Cities	420	(1)
Faith and Freedom	420	(1)
Federal Reconstruction, 1865--1870	421	(7)
Presidential Reconstruction, 1865--1867	422	(3)
Congressional Reconstruction, 1867--1870	425	(1)
Southern Republican Governments, 1867--1870	426	(2)
Counter-Reconstruction, 1870--1874	428	(2)
The Uses of Violence	428	(1)
The Failure of Northern Will	429	(1)
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872	430	(1)
Redemption, 1874--1877	430	(2)
The Democrats' Violent Resurgence	430	(1)
The Weak Federal Response	431	(1)
The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877	431	(1)
The Memory of Reconstruction	431	(1)
The Failed Promise of Reconstruction	432	(3)
Sharecropping	432	(1)
Modest Gains and Future Victories	433	(2)
Conclusion	435	(1)
Summary	435	(1)
Review Questions	436	(1)
Key Terms	437	(1)
Where to Learn More	437	(2)
A New South: Economic Progression and Social Tradition, 1877--1900	439	(29)
Voices from the American Journey: Anna J. Cooper	441	(1)
The Newness of the New South	441	(7)
An Industrial and Urban South	442	(2)
The Limits of Industrial and Urban Growth	444	(2)
Farms to Cities: Impact on Southerners	446	(2)
The Southern Agrarian Revolt	448	(4)
Cotton and Credit	448	(1)
Southern Farmers Organize, 1877--1892	449	(2)
Southern Populists	451	(1)
Women in the New South	452	(2)
Church Work Preserving Memories	453	(1)
Women's Clubs	454	(1)
Settling the Race Issue	454	(10)
The Fluidity of Southern Race Relations, 1877--1890	454	(1)
The White Backlash	455	(1)
Lynch Law	456	(1)
Segregation by Law	456	(2)
Disfranchisement	458	(1)
A National Consensus on Race	459	(2)
Response of the Black Community	461	(3)
Conclusion	464	(1)
Summary	465	(1)
Review Questions	466	(1)
Key Terms	466	(1)
Where to Learn More	467	(1)
Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870--1900	468	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Mary Antin	470	(1)
New Industry	471	(12)
Inventing Technology: The Electric Age	472	(2)
The Corporation and Its Impact	474	(1)
The Changing Nature of Work	475	(2)
Child Labor	477	(1)
Working Women	478	(1)
Responses to Poverty and Wealth	479	(2)
Workers Organize	481	(2)
New Immigrants	483	(7)
Old World Backgrounds	484	(1)
The Neighborhood	485	(1)
The Job	486	(1)
Nativism	487	(2)
Roots of the Great Migration	489	(1)
New Cities	490	(5)
Centers and Suburbs	491	(2)
The New Middle Class	493	(2)
Conclusion	495	(1)
Summary	496	(1)
Review Questions	496	(1)
Key Terms	496	(1)
Where to Learn More	497
Transforming the West, 1865--1890	496	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: Andrew J. Russell	498	(1)
Subjugating Native Americans	499	(8)
Tribes and Cultures	499	(2)
Federal Indian Policy	501	(1)
Warfare and Dispossession	501	(2)
Life on the Reservation: Americanization	503	(4)
Exploiting the Mountains: The Mining Bonanza	507	(3)
Rushes and Mining Camps	507	(2)
Labor and Capital	509	(1)
Exploiting the Grass: The Cattle Kingdom	510	(3)
Cattle Drives the Cow Towns	510	(1)
Rise and Fall of Open-Range Ranching	511	(1)
Cowhands and Capitalists	512	(1)
Exploiting the Earth: Homesteaders and Agricultural Expansion	513	(4)
Settling the Land	513	(2)
Home on the Range	515	(1)
Farming the Land	515	(2)
Conclusion	517	(1)
Summary	517	(1)
Review Questions	518	(1)
Key Terms	518	(1)
Where to Learn More	519	(3)
Visualizing the Past: Mythologizing the ``Wild West''	520	(2)
Politics and Government, 1877--1900	522	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Horace and William H. Taft	524	(1)
The Structure and Style of Politics	525	(5)
Campaigns and Elections	525	(1)
Partisan Politics	526	(1)
Associational Politics	527	(3)
The Limits of Government	530	(2)
The Weak Presidency	530	(1)
The Inefficient Congress	531	(1)
The Federal Bureaucracy and the Spoils System	531	(1)
Inconsistent State Government	531	(1)
Public Policies and National Elections	532	(4)
Civil Service Reform	532	(1)
The Political Life of the Tariff	533	(1)
The Beginnings of Federal Regulations	534	(1)
The Money Question	535	(1)
The Crisis of the 1890s	536	(7)
Agricultural Protest	536	(1)
The People's Party	537	(2)
The Challenge of the Depression	539	(3)
The Battle of the Standards and the Election of 1896	542	(1)
Conclusion	543	(1)
Summary	544	(1)
Review Questions	545	(1)
Key Terms	545	(1)
Where to Learn More	545	(1)
The Progressive Era, 1900--1917	546	(32)
Voices from the American Journey: Inez Milholland	548	(2)
The Ferment of Reform	550	(5)
The Context of Reform: Industrial and Urban Tensions	550	(1)
Church and Campus	551	(2)
Muckrakers	553	(1)
The Gospel of Efficiency	553	(1)
Labor's Demand for Rights	553	(1)
Expanding the Women's Sphere	554	(1)
Transatlantic Influences	555	(1)
Socialism	555	(1)
Opponents of Reform	556	(1)
Reforming Society	556	(8)
Settlement Houses and Urban Reform	557	(1)
Protective Legislation for Women and Children	557	(2)
Reshaping Public Education	559	(1)
Challenging Gender Restrictions	559	(1)
Reforming Country Life	560	(2)
Social Control and Moral Crusades	562	(1)
For White People Only?	563	(1)
Reforming Politics and Government	564	(2)
Woman Suffrage	564	(1)
Electoral Reform	564	(1)
Municipal Reform	565	(1)
Progressive State Government	566	(1)
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Presidency	566	(6)
TR and the Modern Presidency	567	(1)
Roosevelt and Labor	567	(1)
Managing Natural Resources	568	(1)
Corporate Regulation	568	(3)
Taft and the Insurgents	571	(1)
Woodrow Wilson and Progressive Reform	572	(3)
Election of 1912	572	(1)
Implementing the New Freedom	573	(1)
The Expansion of Reform	574	(1)
Conclusion	575	(1)
Summary	575	(1)
Review Questions	576	(1)
Key Terms	576	(1)
Where to Learn More	577	(1)
Creating an Empire, 1865--1917	578	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Major-General Leonard Wood	580	(1)
The Roots of Imperialism	581	(4)
Ideological Arguments	581	(1)
Strategic Concerns	582	(1)
Economic Designs	583	(2)
First Steps	585	(3)
Seward and Blaine	585	(1)
Hawaii	586	(1)
Chile and Venezuela	587	(1)
The Spanish-American War	588	(4)
The Cuban Revolution	588	(1)
Growing Tensions	589	(1)
War and Empire	590	(1)
The Treaty of Paris	591	(1)
Imperial Ambitions: The United States and East Asia, 1899--1917	592	(3)
The Filipino-American War	593	(1)
China and the Open Door	593	(1)
Rivalry with Japan and Russia	594	(1)
Imperial Power: The United States and Latin America, 1899--1917	595	(5)
U.S. Rule in Puerto Rico	595	(1)
Cuba as a U.S. Protectorate	596	(1)
The Panama Canal	597	(1)
The Roosevelt Corollary	598	(1)
Dollar Diplomacy	598	(1)
Wilsonian Interventions	599	(1)
Conclusion	600	(1)
Summary	600	(1)
Review Questions	601	(1)
Key Terms	601	(1)
Where to Learn More	601	(1)
America and the Great War, 1914--1920	602	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: Ray Stannard Baker	604	(1)
Waging Neutrality	605	(6)
The Origins of Conflict	605	(1)
American Attitudes	606	(1)
The Economy of War	607	(1)
The Diplomacy of Neutrality	607	(2)
The Battle over Preparedness	609	(1)
The Election of 1916	609	(1)
Descent into War	610	(1)
Waging War in America	611	(6)
Managing the War Economy	611	(1)
Women and Minorities, New Opportunities, Old Inequalities	612	(1)
Financing the War	613	(1)
Conquering Minds	613	(1)
Suppressing Dissent	614	(3)
Waging War and Peace Abroad	617	(3)
The War to End All Wars	617	(2)
The Fourteen Points	619	(1)
The Paris Peace Conference	619	(1)
Waging Peace at Home	620	(5)
Battle over the League	620	(1)
Economic Readjustment and Social Conflict	621	(2)
Red Scare	623	(1)
The Election of 1920	624	(1)
Conclusion	625	(1)
Summary	625	(1)
Review Questions	626	(1)
Key Terms	626	(1)
Where to Learn More	627	(1)
Toward a Modern America, The 1920s	628	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: Upton Sinclair	630	(2)
The Economy That Roared	632	(3)
Boom Industries	632	(2)
Corporate Consolidation	634	(1)
Open Shops and Welfare Capitalism	634	(1)
Sick Industries	635	(1)
The Business of Government	635	(2)
Republican Ascendancy	635	(1)
Government Corruption	636	(1)
Coolidge Prosperity	636	(1)
The Fate of Reform	637	(1)
Cities and Suburbs	637	(3)
Expanding Cities	638	(1)
The Great Black Migration	639	(1)
Barrios	639	(1)
The Road to Suburbia	640	(1)
Mass Culture in the Jazz Age	640	(2)
Advertising the Consumer Society	640	(1)
Leisure and Entertainment	641	(1)
The New Morality	641	(1)
The Searching Twenties	642	(1)
Culture Wars	642	(5)
Nativism and Immigration Restriction	642	(1)
The Klu Klux Klan	643	(1)
Prohibition and Crime	644	(1)
Old-Time Religion and the Scopes Trial	645	(2)
A New Era in the World?	647	(1)
War Debt and Economic Expansion	647	(1)
Rejecting War	647	(1)
Managing the Hemisphere	648	(1)
Herbert Hoover and the Final Triumph of the New Era	648	(1)
Conclusion	649	(1)
Summary	649	(1)
Review Questions	650	(1)
Key Terms	651	(1)
Where to Learn More	651	(3)
Visualizing the Past: Advertising and the Modern Woman	652	(2)
The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929--1939	654	(30)
Voices from the American Journey: Carlotta Silvas Martine, Eunice Langdon, and Meridel LeSeur	656	(2)
Hard Times in Hooterville	658	(3)
Crash!	658	(1)
The Depression Spreads	659	(1)
``Women's Jobs'' and ``Men's Jobs''	660	(1)
Families in the Depression	660	(1)
``Last Hired, First Fired''	661	(1)
Protest	661	(1)
Herbert Hoover and the Depression	661	(3)
The Limits of Voluntarism	662	(1)
Repudiating Hoover: The 1932 Election	663	(1)
Launching The New Deal	664	(5)
Action Now!	665	(1)
Creating Jobs	666	(1)
Helping Some Farmers	667	(1)
The Flight of the Blue Eagle	667	(1)
Critics Right and Left	667	(2)
Consolidating the New Deal	669	(3)
Lifting Up and Weeding Out	669	(1)
Expanding Relief	670	(1)
The Roosevelt Coalition and the Election of 1936	670	(2)
The New Deal and American Life	672	(5)
Labor on the March	672	(1)
Women and the New Deal	673	(1)
Minorities and the New Deal	674	(1)
The New Deal: North, South, East, and West	675	(1)
The New Deal and Public Activism	676	(1)
Ebbing of the New Deal	677	(1)
Challenging the Court	677	(1)
More Hard Times	677	(1)
Political Stalemate	678	(1)
Good Neighbors and Hostile Forces	678	(3)
Neutrality and Fascism	679	(1)
Ebbing Toward Involvement	680	(1)
Conclusion	681	(1)
Summary	681	(1)
Review Questions	682	(1)
Key Terms	683	(1)
Where to Learn More	683	(1)
World War II, 1939--1945	684	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Enrico Fermi	686	(1)
The Dilemmas of Neutrality	687	(5)
The Roots of War	687	(1)
Hitler's War in Europe	688	(1)
Trying to Keep Out	688	(2)
Edging Toward Intervention	690	(1)
The Brink of War	691	(1)
December 7, 1941	692	(1)
Holding the Line	692	(3)
Stopping Germany	692	(1)
The Survival of Britain	693	(1)
Retreat and Stabilization in the Pacific	693	(2)
Mobilizing for Victory	695	(7)
Organizing the Economy	695	(1)
The Enlistment of Science	696	(1)
Men and Women in the Military	696	(1)
The Home Front	697	(1)
New Workers	698	(1)
Clashing Cultures	699	(1)
Internment of Japanese Americans	699	(3)
The End of the New Deal	702	(1)
War and Peace	702	(6)
Gathering Allied Strength	702	(1)
Turning the Tide in Europe	703	(1)
Operation Overlord	703	(2)
Victory and Tragedy in Europe	705	(1)
The Pacific War	705	(2)
Searching for Peace	707	(1)
Conclusion	708	(2)
Summary	710	(1)
Review Questions	710	(1)
Key Terms	711	(1)
Where to Learn More	711	(1)
The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946--1952	712	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Bernadette Wheeler	714	(1)
Launching the Great Boom	715	(4)
Reconversion Chaos	715	(1)
Economic Policy	715	(1)
The GI Bill	716	(1)
Assembly-Line Neighborhoods	716	(1)
Steps Toward Civil Rights	717	(1)
Consumer Boom and Baby Boom	718	(1)
Truman, Republicans, and the Fair Deal	719	(2)
Truman's Opposition	719	(1)
Whistle-Stopping Across America	720	(1)
Truman's Fair Deal	721	(1)
Confronting the Soviet Union	721	(4)
The End of the Grand Alliance	722	(1)
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	723	(1)
Soviet Reactions	724	(1)
American Rearmament	724	(1)
Cold War and Hot War	725	(5)
The Nuclear Shadow	725	(1)
The Cold War in Asia	726	(1)
NSC-68 and Aggressive Containment	727	(1)
War in Korea, 1950--1953	727	(1)
The Politics of War	728	(2)
The Second Red Scare	730	(3)
The Communist Party and the Loyalty Program	730	(1)
Naming Names to Congress	730	(2)
Subversion Trials	732	(1)
Senator McCarthy on Stage	732	(1)
Understanding McCarthyism	733	(1)
Conclusion	733	(1)
Summary	734	(1)
Review Questions	735	(1)
Key Terms	735	(1)
Where to Learn More	735	(1)
The Confident Years, 1953--1964	736	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Melba Pattillo	738	(1)
A Decade of Affluence	739	(5)
What's Good for General Motors	739	(1)
Reshaping Urban America	740	(1)
Comfort on Credit	741	(1)
The New Fifties Family	741	(1)
Inventing Teenagers	742	(1)
Turning to Religion	742	(1)
The Gospel of Prosperity	743	(1)
The Underside of Affluence	744	(1)
Facing off with the Soviet Union	744	(4)
Why We Liked Ike	744	(1)
A Balance of Terror	745	(1)
Containment in Action	745	(2)
Global Standoff	747	(1)
John F. Kennedy and the Cold War	748	(4)
The Kennedy Mystique	748	(1)
Kennedy's Mistakes	748	(1)
Getting into Vietnam	749	(1)
Missile Crisis: A Line Drawn in the Waves	750	(1)
Science and Foreign Affairs	751	(1)
Righteousness Like a Mighty Stream: The Struggle for Civil Rights	752	(2)
Getting to the Supreme Court	752	(1)
Deliberate Speed	752	(1)
Public Accommodations	753	(1)
The March on Washington, 1963	754	(1)
``Let Us Continue''	754	(4)
Dallas, 1963	754	(1)
War on Poverty	755	(1)
Civil Rights, 1964--1965	755	(2)
War, Peace, and the Landslide of 1964	757	(1)
Conclusion	758	(1)
Summary	758	(1)
Review Questions	759	(1)
Key Terms	759	(1)
Where to Learn More	759	(1)
Shaken to the Roots, 1965--1980	760	(30)
Voices from the American Journey: Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong	762	(1)
The End of Consensus	763	(6)
Deeper into Vietnam	763	(2)
Voices of Dissent	765	(1)
New Left and Community Activism	766	(1)
The Feminist Critique	767	(1)
Youth Culture and Counterculture	768	(1)
Sounds of Change	768	(1)
Communes and Cults	769	(1)
Cities Under Stress	769	(4)
Diagnosing an Urban Crisis	770	(1)
Racial Rioting	770	(1)
Minority Separatism	771	(1)
Suburban Independence: The Outer City	772	(1)
The Year of the Gun, 1968	773	(3)
The Tet Offensive	773	(1)
LBJ's Exit	774	(1)
Red Spring	774	(1)
Violence and Politics	775	(1)
Nixon and Watergate	776	(7)
Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969--1975	776	(1)
Nixon and the Wider World	777	(1)
Courting Middle America	778	(1)
Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation	778	(1)
Americans as Environmentalists	779	(1)
From Dirty Tricks to Watergate	779	(3)
The Ford Footnote	782	(1)
Jimmy Carter: Idealism and Frustration in the White House	783	(2)
Carter, Energy, and the Economy	783	(1)
Closed Factories and Failed Farms	783	(1)
Building a Cooperative World	784	(1)
New Crises Abroad	784	(1)
Conclusion	785	(1)
Summary	786	(1)
Review Questions	787	(1)
Key Terms	787	(1)
Where to Learn More	787	(3)
Visualizing the Past: Iconic Images of the Vietnam Era	788	(2)
The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World, 1981--1992	790	(30)
Voices from the American Journey: Celia Noup	793	(1)
Reagan's Domestic Revolution	794	(6)
Reagan's Majority	794	(1)
The New Conservatism	795	(1)
Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation	796	(1)
Crisis for Organized Labor	797	(1)
An Acquisitive Society	798	(1)
Poverty amid Prosperity	798	(2)
Consolidating the Revolution: George H.W. Bush	800	(2)
The Second (Short) Cold War	802	(4)
Confronting the USSR	802	(1)
Risky Business: Foreign Policy Adventures	803	(1)
Embracing Perestroika	804	(1)
Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe	804	(1)
The First Persian Gulf War	805	(1)
Growth in the Sunbelt	806	(4)
The Defense Boom	807	(1)
New Americans	808	(1)
Old Gateways and New	809	(1)
The Graying of America	810	(1)
Values in Collision	810	(1)
New Meanings for American Families	811	(6)
The Feminist Critique	811	(1)
Women's Rights and Public Policy	812	(1)
Coming Out	813	(1)
Churches in Change	814	(1)
Culture Wars	815	(2)
Conclusion	817	(1)
Summary	818	(1)
Review Questions	818	(1)
Key Terms	819	(1)
Where to Learn More	819	(1)
Complacency and Crisis, 1993--2003	820
Voices from the American Journey: John McNamara	822	(1)
The Politics of the Center	823	(5)
Political Generations	823	(1)
Policing the World	824	(1)
Clinton's Neoliberalism	825	(1)
Contract with America and the Election of 1996	825	(1)
The Dangers of Everyday Life	826	(1)
Morality and Partisanship	827	(1)
A New Economy?	828	(5)
The Prosperous 1990s	829	(1)
The Service Economy	829	(1)
The High-Tech Sector	829	(3)
An Instant Society	832	(1)
In the World Market	833	(1)
Broadening Democracy	833	(5)
Americans in 2000	833	(1)
Women from the Grass Roots to Congress	834	(1)
Minorities at the Ballot Box	835	(2)
Rights and Opportunities	837	(1)
Edging into a New Century	838	(3)
The Election of 2000	838	(1)
Reaganomics Revisited	839	(1)
Downsized Diplomacy	840	(1)
Paradoxes of Power	841	(3)
Security and Conflict	841	(3)
Iraq and Conflicts in the Middle East	844	(1)
Conclusion	844	(1)
Summary	845	(1)
Key Terms	846	(1)
Review Questions	846	(1)
Where to Learn More	846
Appendix	1	(1)
Glossary	1	(1)
Credits	1	(1)
Index	1