American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Single Volume Edition (Penguin Academics Series)

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

• ISBN13: 9780321316363
• ISBN10: 0321316363
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• 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.In richly detailed prose, the book examines the political, social, economic, and cultural developments that have shaped this country. This elegantly written, high-quality text offers a low-price alternative to traditional U.S. history survey textbooks.

Table of Contents

Maps and Graphs	xvii
Feature Essays	xix
Re-Viewing the Past
Debating the Past
Preface	xxi
PROLOGUE BEGINNINGS	1	(16)
Passage to Alaska	1	(1)
The Demise of the Big Mammals	2	(2)
The Archaic Period: A World Without Big Mammals, 9000 B.C.E.-1000 B.C.E.	4	(1)
The First Sedentary Communities, 1000 B.C.E.	4	(3)
Corn Transforms the Southwest	7	(2)
The Diffusion of Corn	9	(1)
Population Growth After 800	9	(1)
Cahokia: The Hub of Mississippian Culture	10	(2)
The Collapse of Urban Centers	12	(2)
American Beginnings in Eurasia and Africa	14	(1)
Europe in Ferment	15	(2)
CHAPTER 1 ALIEN ENCOUNTERS; EUROPE IN THE AMERICAS	17	(30)
Columbus	17	(3)
Spain's American Empire	20	(1)
Indians and Europeans	21	(1)
Relativity of Cultural Values	22	(1)
Disease and Population Losses	23	(1)
Early English Settlement	24	(2)
The Settlement of Virginia	26	(4)
"Purifying" the Church of England	30	(1)
Bradford and Plymouth Colony	31	(2)
Winthrop and Massachusetts Bay Colony	33	(2)
Troublemakers: Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson	35	(3)
Other New England Colonies	38	(1)
French and Dutch Settlements	38	(1)
Maryland and the Carolinas	39	(2)
The Middle Colonies	41	(3)
Indians and Europeans as "Americanizers"	44	(3)
CHAPTER 2 AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE MAKING	47	(33)
Spanish Settlement	47	(2)
The Chesapeake Colonies	49	(2)
The Lure of Land	51	(1)
"Solving" the Labor Shortage: Slavery	51	(2)
Prosperity in a Pipe: Tobacco	53	(1)
Bacon's Rebellion	54	(2)
The Carolinas	56	(3)
Home and Family in the South	59	(1)
Georgia and the Back Country	60	(2)
Puritan New England	62	(1)
Puritan Women and Children	63	(1)
Visible Puritan Saints and Others	64	(1)
Democracies Without Democrats	65	(1)
The Dominion of New England	66	(2)
Salem Bewitched	68	(2)
Prosperity Undermines Puritanism	70	(1)
A Merchant's World	71	(3)
The Middle Colonies: Economic Basis	74	(1)
The Middle Colonies: An Intermingling of Peoples	75	(2)
"The Best Poor Man's Country"	77	(1)
The Politics of Diversity	77	(3)
CHAPTER 3 AMERICA IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE	80	(42)
The British Colonial System	80	(3)
Mercantilism	83	(1)
The Navigation Acts	84	(1)
The Effects of Mercantilism	85	(2)
The Great Awakening	87	(3)
The Rise and Fall of Jonathan Edwards	90	(2)
The Enlightenment in America	92	(1)
Colonial Scientific Achievements	93	(2)
Repercussions of Distant Wars	95	(2)
The Great War for the Empire	97	(3)
The Peace of Paris	100	(1)
Putting the Empire Right	101	(2)
Tightening Imperial Controls	103	(3)
The Sugar Act	106	(1)
American Colonists Demand Rights	107	(1)
The Stamp Act: The Pot Set to Boiling	108	(2)
Rioters or Rebels?	110	(1)
Taxation or Tyranny?	111	(1)
The Declaratory Act	112	(1)
The Townshend Duties	113	(1)
The Boston Massacre	114	(2)
The Pot Spills Over	116	(1)
The Tea Act Crisis	117	(1)
From Resistance to Revolution	118	(4)
CHAPTER 4 THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION	122	(37)
"The Shot Heard Round the World"	123	(1)
The Second Continental Congress	124	(1)
The Battle of Bunker Hill	125	(1)
The Great Declaration	125	(5)
1776: The Balance of Forces	130	(2)
Loyalists	132	(1)
Early British Victories	133	(1)
Saratoga and the French Alliance	134	(4)
The War Moves South	138	(1)
Victory at Yorktown	139	(2)
The Peace of Paris	141	(2)
Forming a National Government	143	(3)
Financing the War	146	(2)
State Republican Governments	148	(1)
Social Reform	149	(2)
Effects of the Revolution on Women	151	(2)
Growth of a National Spirit	153	(2)
The Great Land Ordinances	155	(1)
National Heroes	156	(3)
CHAPTER 5 THE FEDERALIST ERA; NATIONALISM TRIUMPHANT	159	(32)
Border Problems	159	(1)
Foreign Trade	160	(2)
Daniel Shays's "Little Rebellion"	162	(1)
To Philadelphia, and the Constitution	163	(1)
The Great Convention	163	(3)
The Compromises That Produced the Constitution	166	(3)
Ratifying the Constitution	169	(2)
Washington as President	171	(2)
Congress Under Way	173	(1)
Hamilton and Financial Reform	174	(4)
The Ohio Country: A Dark and Bloody Ground	178	(1)
Revolution in France	179	(1)
Federalists and Republicans: The Rise of Political Parties	180	(1)
1794: Crisis and Resolution	181	(1)
Jay's Treaty	182	(1)
1795: All's Well That Ends Well	182	(1)
Washington's Farewell	183	(2)
The Election of 1796	185	(1)
The XYZ Affair	186	(2)
The Alien and Sedition Acts	188	(1)
The Kentucky and Virginia Resolves	188	(3)
CHAPTER 6 JEFFERSONIAN DEMOCRACY	191	(25)
The Federalist Contribution	192	(1)
Thomas Jefferson: Political Theorist	193	(2)
Jefferson as President	195	(1)
Jefferson's Attack on the Judiciary	196	(2)
The Barbary Pirates	198	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	198	(4)
The Federalists Discredited	202	(2)
Lewis and Clark	204	(2)
Jeffersonian Democracy	206	(1)
The Burr Conspiracy	207	(1)
Napoleon and the British	208	(2)
The Impressment Controversy	210	(1)
The Embargo Act	211	(5)
CHAPTER 7 NATIONAL GROWING PAINS	216	(32)
Madison in Power	216	(1)
Tecumseh and Indian Resistance	217	(1)
Depression and Land Hunger	218	(3)
Opponents of War	221	(1)
The War of 1812	221	(4)
Britain Assumes the Offensive	225	(2)
"The Star Spangled Banner"	227	(1)
The Treaty of Ghent	228	(1)
The Hartford Convention	229	(1)
The Battle of New Orleans	229	(2)
Victory Weakens the Federalists	231	(1)
Anglo-American Rapprochement	232	(1)
The Transcontinental Treaty	232	(1)
The Monroe Doctrine	233	(3)
The Era of Good Feelings	236	(1)
New Sectional Issues	237	(2)
The Missouri Compromise	239	(3)
The Election of 1824	242	(2)
John Quincy Adams as President	244	(1)
Calhoun's Exposition and Protest	244	(2)
The Meaning of Sectionalism	246	(2)
CHAPTER 8 TOWARD A NATIONAL ECONOMY	248	(26)
Gentility and the Consumer Revolution	248	(1)
Birth of the Factory	249	(2)
An Industrial Proletariat?	251	(1)
Lowell's Waltham System: Women as Factory Workers	252	(2)
Irish and German Immigrants	254	(1)
The Persistence of the Household System	255	(1)
Rise of Corporations	255	(1)
Cotton Revolutionizes the South	256	(2)
Revival of Slavery	258	(3)
Roads to Market	261	(2)
Transportation and the Government	263	(1)
Development of Steamboats	264	(2)
The Canal Boom	266	(2)
New York City: Emporium of the Western World	267	(1)
The Marshall Court	268	(6)
CHAPTER 9 JACKSONIAN DEMOCRACY	274	(25)
"Democratizing" Politics	275	(1)
1828: The New Party System in Embryo	276	(2)
The Jacksonian Appeal	278	(1)
The Spoils System	278	(1)
President of All the People	279	(1)
Jackson: "The Bank...I Will Kill It!"	280	(2)
Jackson's Bank Veto	282	(2)
Jackson Versus Calhoun	284	(1)
Indian Removals	285	(2)
The Nullification Crisis	287	(2)
Boom and Bust	289	(1)
The Jacksonians	290	(1)
Rise of the Whigs	291	(2)
Martin Van Buren: Jacksonianism Without Jackson	293	(2)
The Log Cabin Campaign	295	(4)
CHAPTER 10 THE MAKING OF MIDDLE-CLASS AMERICA	299	(22)
Tocqueville in Judgment	300	(1)
A Restless People	300	(2)
The Family Recast	302	(1)
The Second Great Awakening	303	(2)
The Era of Associations	305	(1)
Backwoods Utopias	306	(3)
The Age of Reform	309	(3)
"Demon Rum"	312	(1)
The Abolitionist Crusade	313	(3)
Women's Rights	316	(5)
CHAPTER 11 AN AMERICAN CULTURE	321	(15)
In Search of Native Grounds	321	(2)
The Romantic View of Life	323	(1)
Emerson and Thoreau	323	(2)
Edgar Allan Poe	325	(2)
Nathaniel Hawthorne	327	(1)
Herman Melville	327	(2)
Walt Whitman	329	(1)
Education for Democracy	330	(2)
Reading and the Dissemination of Culture	332	(1)
The State of the Colleges	333	(3)
CHAPTER 12 WESTWARD EXPANSION	336	(23)
Tyler's Troubles	336	(1)
The Webster-Ashburton Treaty	337	(1)
The Texas Question	338	(1)
Manifest Destiny	339	(1)
Life on the Trail	340	(1)
California and Oregon	340	(2)
The Election of 1844	342	(2)
Polk as President	344	(1)
War with Mexico	345	(1)
To the Halls of Montezuma	346	(3)
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo	349	(1)
The Fruits of Victory: Further Enlargement of the United States	350	(1)
Slavery: The Fire Bell in the Night Rings Again	350	(2)
The Election of 1848	352	(1)
The Gold Rush	353	(2)
The Compromise of 1850	355	(4)
CHAPTER 13 THE SECTIONS GO THEIR WAYS	359	(23)
The Economics of Slavery	359	(2)
The Sociology of Slavery	361	(4)
Psychological Effects of Slavery	365	(2)
Manufacturing in the South	367	(1)
The Northern Industrial Juggernaut	368	(1)
A Nation of Immigrants	369	(1)
How Wage Earners Lived	370	(1)
Foreign Commerce	371	(1)
Steam Conquers the Atlantic	372	(2)
Canals and Railroads	374	(1)
Financing the Railroads	375	(1)
Railroads and the Economy	376	(3)
Railroads and the Sectional Conflict	379	(1)
The Economy on the Eve of Civil War	380	(2)
CHAPTER 14 THE COMING OF THE CIVIL WAR	382	(29)
The Slave Power Comes North	382	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin	383	(1)
Diversions Abroad: The "Young America" Movement	384	(1)
Stephen Douglas: "The Little Giant"	385	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	386	(3)
Know-Nothings, Republicans, and the Demise of the Two-Party System	389	(1)
"Bleeding Kansas"	390	(3)
Senator Sumner Becomes a Martyr for Abolitionism	393	(1)
Buchanan Tries His Hand	394	(1)
The Dred Scott Decision	395	(2)
The Lecompton Constitution	397	(1)
The Emergence of Lincoln	398	(1)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	399	(3)
John Brown's Raid	402	(2)
The Election of 1860	404	(3)
The Secession Crisis	407	(4)
CHAPTER 15 THE WAR TO SAVE THE UNION	411	(36)
Lincoln's Cabinet	411	(1)
Fort Sumter: The First Shot	412	(1)
The Blue and the Gray	413	(3)
The Test of Battle: Bull Run	416	(1)
Paying for the War	417	(1)
Politics as Usual	418	(1)
Behind Confederate Lines	419	(1)
War in the West: Shiloh	420	(1)
McClellan: The Reluctant Warrior	421	(2)
Lee Counterattacks: Antietam	423	(2)
The Emancipation Proclamation	425	(2)
The Draft Riots	427	(1)
The Emancipated People	427	(1)
African American Soldiers	428	(1)
Antietam to Gettysburg	429	(3)
Lincoln Finds His General: Grant at Vicksburg	432	(2)
Economic and Social Effects, North and South	434	(2)
Women in Wartime	436	(2)
Grant in the Wilderness	438	(1)
Sherman in Georgia	439	(2)
To Appomattox Court House	441	(2)
Winners, Losers, and the Future	443	(4)
CHAPTER 16 RECONSTRUCTION AND THE SOUTH	447	(25)
Presidential Reconstruction	448	(2)
Republican Radicals	450	(1)
Congress Rejects Johnsonian Reconstruction	451	(1)
The Fourteenth Amendment	452	(1)
The Reconstruction Acts	453	(1)
Congress Supreme	454	(1)
The Fifteenth Amendment	455	(1)
"Black Republican" Reconstruction: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers	456	(3)
The Ravaged Land	459	(2)
Sharecropping and the Crop-Lien System	461	(2)
The White Backlash	463	(2)
Grant as President	465	(1)
The Disputed Election of 1876	466	(3)
The Compromise of 1877	469	(3)
CHAPTER 17 IN THE WAKE OF WAR	472	(30)
Congress Ascendant	473	(1)
The Political Aftermath of War	474	(2)
Blacks After Reconstruction	476	(2)
Booker T. Washington: A "Reasonable" Champion for Blacks	478	(2)
White Violence and Vengeance	480	(1)
The West After the Civil War	481	(1)
The Plains Indians	482	(2)
Indian Wars	484	(2)
The Destruction of Tribal Life	486	(2)
The Lure of Gold and Silver in the West	488	(4)
Big Business and the Land Bonanza	492	(1)
Western Railroad Building	493	(3)
The Cattle Kingdom	496	(1)
Open-Range Ranching	497	(1)
Barbed-Wire Warfare	498	(4)
CHAPTER 18 AN INDUSTRIAL GIANT	502	(28)
Essentials of Industrial Growth	502	(1)
Railroads: The First Big Business	503	(3)
Iron, Oil, and Electricity	506	(3)
Competition and Monopoly: The Railroads	509	(2)
Competition and Monopoly: Steel	511	(1)
Competition and Monopoly: Oil	512	(4)
American Ambivalence to Big Business	516	(2)
Reformers: George, Bellamy, Lloyd, and the Marxists	518	(3)
The Government Reacts to Big Business: Railroad Regulation	521	(1)
The Government Reacts to Big Business: The Sherman Antitrust Act	522	(1)
The Labor Union Movement	523	(1)
The American Federation of Labor	524	(2)
Labor Militancy Rebuffed	526	(2)
Whither America, Whither Democracy?	528	(2)
CHAPTER 19 AMERICAN SOCIETY IN THE INDUSTRIAL AGE	530	(26)
Middle-Class Life	530	(1)
Skilled and Unskilled Workers	531	(1)
Working Women	532	(2)
Farmers	534	(1)
Working-Class Attitudes	535	(1)
Working Your Way Up	536	(1)
The "New" Immigration	537	(2)
New Immigrants Face New Nativism	539	(2)
The Expanding City and Its Problems	541	(1)
Teeming Tenements	542	(3)
The Cities Modernize	545	(2)
Leisure Activities: More Fun and Games	547	(3)
Christianity's Conscience and the Social Gospel	550	(2)
The Settlement Houses	552	(2)
Civilization and Its Discontents	554	(2)
CHAPTER 20 INTELLECTUAL AND CULTURAL TRENDS	556	(19)
Publishing	556	(3)
Colleges and Universities	559	(3)
Revolution in the Social Sciences	562	(1)
Progressive Education	563	(1)
History	564	(1)
Realism in Literature	565	(2)
Mark Twain	567	(1)
William Dean Howells	568	(1)
Henry James	569	(3)
The Pragmatic Approach	572	(3)
CHAPTER 21 POLITICS: LOCAL, STATE, AND NATIONAL	575	(23)
Voting Along Ethnic and Religious Lines	575	(1)
City Bosses	576	(2)
Party Politics: Sidestepping the Issue	578	(2)
Lackluster Leaders	580	(5)
Crops and Complaints	585	(1)
The Populist Movement	586	(3)
Showdown on Silver	589	(2)
The Depression of 1893	591	(2)
The Election of 1896	593	(2)
The Meaning of the Election	595	(3)
CHAPTER 22 THE AGE OF REFORM	598	(32)
Roots of Progressivism	598	(3)
The Progressive Mind	601	(1)
"Radical" Progressives: The Wave of the Future	602	(1)
Political Reform: Cities First	603	(1)
Political Reform: The States	604	(1)
State Social Legislation	604	(3)
Political Reform: The Woman Suffrage Movement	607	(2)
Political Reform: Income Taxes and Popular Election of Senators	609	(2)
Theodore Roosevelt: Cowboy in the White House	611	(1)
Roosevelt and Big Business	612	(1)
Roosevelt and the Coal Strike	613	(2)
TR's Triumphs	615	(1)
Roosevelt Tilts Left	616	(1)
William Howard Taft: The Listless Progressive, or More Is Less	617	(1)
Breakup of the Republican Party	618	(2)
The Election of 1912	620	(1)
Wilson: The New Freedom	621	(3)
The Progressives and Minority Rights	624	(2)
Black Militancy	626	(4)
CHAPTER 23 FROM ISOLATION TO EMPIRE	630	(28)
Origins of the Large Policy: Coveting Colonies	630	(3)
Toward an Empire in the Pacific	633	(3)
Toward an Empire in Latin America	636	(2)
The Cuban Revolution	638	(3)
The "Splendid Little" Spanish-American War	641	(2)
Developing a Colonial Policy	643	(2)
The Anti-Imperialists	645	(1)
The Philippine Insurrection	646	(1)
Cuba and the United States	647	(2)
The United States in the Caribbean and Central America	649	(1)
The Open Door Policy	650	(2)
The Panama Canal	652	(3)
Imperialism Without Colonies	655	(3)
CHAPTER 24 WOODROW WILSON AND THE GREAT WAR	658	(31)
Wilson's "Moral" Diplomacy	658	(2)
Europe Explodes in War	660	(1)
Freedom of the Seas	661	(3)
The Election of 1916	664	(1)
The Road to War	665	(1)
Mobilizing the Economy	666	(2)
Workers in Wartime	668	(1)
Paying for the War	668	(1)
Propaganda and Civil Liberties	669	(1)
Wartime Reforms	670	(1)
Women and Blacks in Wartime	671	(3)
Americans: To the Trenches and Over the Top	674	(2)
Preparing for Peace	676	(3)
The Paris Peace Conference and the Versailles Treaty	679	(2)
The Senate Rejects the League of Nations	681	(2)
The Red Scare	683	(3)
The Election of 1920	686	(3)
CHAPTER 25 POSTWAR SOCIETY AND CULTURE: CHANGE AND ADJUSTMENT	689	(28)
Closing the Gates to New Immigrants	689	(2)
New Urban Social Patterns	691	(1)
The Younger Generation	692	(1)
The "New" Woman	693	(5)
Popular Culture: Movies and Radio	698	(2)
The Golden Age of Sports	700	(2)
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Fundamentalism	702	(2)
Urban-Rural Conflicts: Prohibition	704	(2)
The Ku Klux Klan	706	(1)
Sacco and Vanzetti	707	(1)
Literary Trends	707	(2)
The "New Negro"	709	(2)
Economic Expansion	711	(1)
The Age of the Consumer	712	(1)
Henry Ford	713	(1)
The Airplane	714	(3)
CHAPTER 26 THE NEW ERA: 1921-1933	717	(24)
Harding and "Normalcy"	718	(1)
"The Business of the United States Is Business"	719	(1)
The Harding Scandals	720	(1)
Coolidge Prosperity	721	(1)
Peace Without a Sword	722	(1)
The Peace Movement	723	(1)
The Good Neighbor Policy	724	(1)
The Totalitarian Challenge	724	(1)
War Debts and Reparations	725	(2)
The Election of 1928	727	(2)
Economic Problems	729	(1)
The Stock Market Crash of 1929	730	(1)
Hoover and the Depression	731	(2)
The Economy Hits Bottom	733	(3)
The Depression and Its Victims	736	(1)
The Election of 1932	736	(5)
CHAPTER 27 THE NEW DEAL: 1933-1941	741	(31)
The Hundred Days	741	(2)
The National Recovery Administration (NRA)	743	(1)
The Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA)	744	(1)
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)	745	(1)
The Unemployed	745	(2)
Literature in the Depression	747	(1)
Three Extremists: Long, Coughlin, and Townsend	748	(3)
The Second New Deal	751	(2)
The Election of 1936	753	(1)
Roosevelt Tries to Undermine the Supreme Court	754	(1)
The New Deal Winds Down	755	(3)
Significance of the New Deal	758	(1)
Women as New Dealers: The Network	759	(1)
Blacks During the New Deal	760	(2)
A New Deal for Indians	762	(1)
The Role of Roosevelt	762	(1)
The Triumph of Isolationism	763	(1)
War Again in Europe	764	(3)
A Third Term for FDR	767	(1)
The Undeclared War	768	(4)
CHAPTER 28 WAR AND PEACE	772	(27)
The Road to Pearl Harbor	772	(1)
Mobilizing the Home Front	773	(2)
The War Economy	775	(1)
War and Social Change	776	(1)
African Americans in Time of War	776	(2)
Internment of the Japanese	778	(2)
Women's Contribution to the War Effort	780	(2)
Allied Strategy: Europe First	782	(1)
Germany Overwhelmed	783	(2)
The Naval War in the Pacific	785	(1)
Island Hopping	785	(6)
Building the Atom Bomb	791	(3)
Wartime Diplomacy	794	(1)
Allied Suspicion of Stalin	795	(1)
Yalta and Potsdam	796	(3)
CHAPTER 29 THE AMERICAN CENTURY	799	(28)
The Postwar Economy	800	(1)
The Containment Policy	801	(1)
A Turning Point in Greece	801	(1)
The Marshall Plan and the Lesson of History	802	(2)
The Election of 1948	804	(3)
Containing Communism Abroad	807	(1)
Hot War in Korea	808	(5)
The Communist Issue at Home	813	(1)
McCarthyism	814	(1)
Dwight D. Eisenhower	814	(2)
The Eisenhower-Dulles Foreign Policy	816	(1)
McCarthy Self-Destructs	817	(1)
Asian Policy After Korea	817	(1)
Israel and the Middle East	818	(1)
Eisenhower and Khrushchev	819	(1)
Latin America Aroused	820	(1)
The Politics of Civil Rights	821	(3)
The Election of 1960	824	(3)
CHAPTER 30 FROM CAMELOT TO WATERGATE	827	(30)
The Cuban Crises	827	(3)
The Vietnam War	830	(1)
"We Shall Overcome": The Civil Rights Movement	831	(3)
Tragedy in Dallas: JFK Assassinated	834	(2)
Lyndon Baines Johnson	836	(1)
The Great Society	836	(2)
Johnson Escalates the War	838	(1)
Opposition to the War	839	(1)
The Election of 1968	839	(5)
Nixon as President: "Vietnamizing" the War	844	(1)
The Cambodian "Incursion"	845	(1)
Detente with Communism	846	(2)
Nixon in Triumph	848	(1)
Domestic Policy Under Nixon	849	(1)
The Watergate Break-in	850	(2)
More Troubles for Nixon	852	(1)
The Judgment on Watergate: "Expletive Deleted"	853	(4)
CHAPTER 31 SOCIETY IN FLUX	857	(25)
A Society on the Move	858	(1)
The Advent of Television	858	(1)
At Home and Work	859	(2)
The Growing Middle Class	861	(1)
Religion in Changing Times	862	(2)
The Perils of Progress	864	(1)
The Costs of Prosperity	865	(1)
New Racial Turmoil	866	(2)
Native-Born Ethnics	868	(2)
Rethinking Public Education	870	(2)
Students in Revolt	872	(2)
The Counterculture	874	(1)
The Sexual Revolution	875	(3)
Women's Liberation	878	(4)
CHAPTER 32 RUNNING ON EMPTY: THE NATION TRANSFORMED	882	(26)
The Oil Crisis	882	(2)
Ford as President	884	(1)
The Fall of South Vietnam	885	(1)
Ford Versus Carter	885	(1)
The Carter Presidency	886	(1)
A National Malaise	887	(1)
Stagflation: The Weird Economy	887	(1)
Families Under Stress	888	(2)
Cold War or Detente?	890	(1)
The Iran Crisis: Origins	891	(1)
The Iran Crisis: Carter's Dilemma	892	(1)
The Election of 1980	892	(3)
Reagan as President	895	(1)
Four More Years	896	(1)
"The Reagan Revolution"	897	(1)
Change and Uncertainty	898	(2)
AIDS	900	(1)
The New Merger Movement	901	(1)
"A Job for Life": Layoffs Hit Home	902	(1)
A "Bipolar" Economy, a Fractured Society	903	(1)
The Iran-Contra Arms Deal	904	(4)
CHAPTER 33 MISDEMEANORS AND HIGH CRIMES	908
The Election of 1988	908	(1)
Crime and Punishment	909	(1)
"Crack" and Urban Gangs	910	(1)
George H.W. Bush as President	911	(1)
The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe	912	(1)
The War in the Persian Gulf	913	(3)
The Deficit Worsens	916	(1)
Enter Bill Clinton	916	(1)
The Election of 1992	917	(1)
A New Start: Clinton	917	(2)
Emergence of the Republican Majority	919	(1)
The Election of 1996	919	(1)
A Racial Divide	920	(1)
Violence and Popular Culture	921	(2)
Clinton Impeached	923	(1)
Clinton's Legacy	924	(2)
The Economic Boom and the Internet	926	(1)
The 2000 Election: George W. Bush Wins by One Vote	927	(1)
Terrorism Intensifies	928	(1)
September 11, 2001	929	(2)
America Fights Back: War in Afghanistan	931	(1)
The Second Iraq War	932	(2)
The Election of 2004	934	(2)
The Imponderable Future	936	(3124176)
APPENDIX	A-1
The Declaration of Independence	A-3
The Constitution of the United States of America	A-6
Amendments to the Constitution	A-14
Supplementary Reading	A-21
Suggested Web Sites	A-47
Present-day United States	A-68
Present-day World	A-70
CREDITS	C-1
INDEX	I-1