American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Concise Edition, Volume 2 (since 1865)

by Carnes, Mark C.; Garraty, John A.

• ISBN13: 9780321510860
• ISBN10: 0321510860
• Edition: 3rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-01-01
• Publisher: Longman

Summary

With the political history of the nation as its organizational framework,American Destiny: Narrative of a Nationdescribes the development and growth of the United States as the product of the myriad actions, ideas, and forces of the immense variety of individuals and groups who together comprise the American people.

Table of Contents

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Maps and Graphs Feature Essays Re-viewing the Past Debating the Past Preface

The War to Save the Union

Lincoln s Cabinet

Fort Sumter: The First Shot

The Blue and the Gray

The Test of Battle: Bull Run

Paying for the War

Politics as Usual

Behind Confederate Lines

War in the West: Shiloh

McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior

Lee Counterattacks: Antietam

The Emancipation Troclamation

The Draft Riots

The Emancipated People

African American Soldiers

Antietam to Gettysburg

Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg

Economic and Social Effects, North and South

Women in Wartime

Grant in the Wilderness

Sherman in Georgia

To Appomattox Court House

Winners, Losers, and the Future

Re-Viewing the Past Glory

Debating The Past

Why Did the South Lose the Civil War?

Reconstruction and the South

The Assassination of Lincoln

Presidential Reconstruction

Republican Radicals

Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction

The Fourteenth Amendment

The Reconstruction Acts

Congress Supreme

The Fifteenth Amendment

"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers

The Ravaged Land

Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System

The White Backlash

Grant as President

The Disputed Election of 1876

The Compromise of 1877

Debating The Past

Were Reconstruction Governments Corrupt?

The Conquest of the West

The West After the Civil War

The Plains Indians

Indian Wars

The Destruction of Tribal Life

The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West

Big Business and the Land Bonanza

Western Railroad Building

The Cattle Kingdom

Open-Range Ranching

Barbed-Wire Warfare

Debating The Past

Was the Frontier Exceptionally Violent?

An Industrial Giant

Essentials of Industrial Growth

Railroads: The First Big Business

Iron, Oil, and Electricity

Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads

Competition and Monopoly: Steel

Competition and Monopoly: Oil

American Ambivalence to Big Business

Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd, and the Marxists

The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation

The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act

The Labor Union Movement

The American Federation of Labor

Labor Militancy Rebuffed

Whither America, Whither Democracy?

Debating The Past

Were the Industrialists "Robber Barons" or Savvy Entrepreneurs?

American Society in the Industrial Age

Middle-Class Life

Skilled and Unskilled Workers

Working Women

Farmers Working-Class Attitudes

Working Your Way Up

The "New" Immigration

New Immigrants Face New Nativism

The Expanding City and Its Problems

Teeming Tenements

The Cities Modernize

Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games

Christianity s Conscience and the Social Gospel

The Settlement Houses

Civilization and Its Discontents

Debating The Past

Did Immigrants Assimilate?

Intellectual and Cultural Trends

Colleges and Universities

Revolution in the Social Sciences

Progressive Education

History

Realism in Literature

Mark Twain

William Dean Howells

Henry James

The Pragmatic Approach

The Knowledge Revolution

Re-Viewing the Past Titanic

Debating the Past Did the Frontier Engender Individualism and

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