American Destiny: Narrative of a Nation, Volume II (since 1865) (Penguin Academics Series)

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

• ISBN13: 9780321298577
• ISBN10: 0321298578
• 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	xv
Feature Essays	xvii
Re-Viewing the Past
Debating the Past
Preface	xix
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 Boo 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 Fight Back: War in Afghanistan	931	(1)
The Second Iraq War	932	(2)
The Election 2004	934	(2)
The Imponderable Future	936
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