American History, 1877 to the Present

by Capozzoli Ingui, Mary Jane

• ISBN13: 9780764120053
• ISBN10: 0764120050
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Barrons Test Prep

Summary

EZ-101 American History presents brief summaries and places in perspectiveey American men, women, and events from the post-Civil War era, through theourse of the twentieth century, and concluding with today's post September1th crisis For more than a decade, titles in this handy, quick-study seriesave helped many college freshmen and others taking introductory 101-levelollege courses. Designed to be compatible with virtually all standardextbooks in their target subjects, EZ-101 Study Keys outline and organizeubject material so that it resembles classroom lecture notes taken by theost highly attentive students. As such, these books provide a generalverview of course material, and are ideal for students' brush-up and reviewtudy sessions before taking examinations or writing class papers.

Table of Contents

The New South and Western Development	p. 1
Change in the South	p. 2
Treatment of blacks and response	p. 4
Transformation of the West	p. 6
Native Americans of the West	p. 8
Indian response to white incursion	p. 10
Growth of Industry, Business, and Labor	p. 12
Industrial development	p. 13
Evolution of the corporation	p. 15
Ideas about industrial capitalism	p. 17
Workers and the union movement	p. 20
Unions: Action and reaction	p. 22
City Life and the Impact of Industrialization	p. 24
Urban development	p. 25
The immigrant	p. 27
Popular culture	p. 29
Intellectual and elite culture	p. 31
Gilded Age Politics	p. 33
The nature of American politics	p. 34
Gilded Age presidents	p. 36
National issues	p. 38
Agrarian unrest	p. 41
Crisis in the 1890s	p. 43
Election of 1896	p. 45
The Progressive Era: Reform in America	p. 47
Who were the Progressives?	p. 48
Governmental and legislative reform	p. 51
Social and economic reform	p. 53
Roosevelt's Square Deal administration	p. 55
Roosevelt's conservation policies	p. 58
Taft as successor	p. 59
Wilson's New Freedom administration	p. 62
American Imperialism	p. 65
Imperialism: Reasons and theories	p. 66
Political developments enhancing expansionism	p. 68
Spanish-American War	p. 70
Foreign policy in Latin America under Theodore Roosevelt	p. 72
Latin American Policy under Taft and Wilson	p. 74
Foreign policy in Asia	p. 76
World War I	p. 78
Prelude to American involvement	p. 79
The war's effect on the home front	p. 82
Postwar developments abroad	p. 84
Postwar developments at home	p. 86
The Roaring Twenties	p. 89
The Republican era	p. 90
Economic conditions	p. 93
Material culture in America	p. 95
American writers	p. 97
Women and blacks in the 1920s	p. 98
Response to the new culture	p. 100
Foreign policy of the 1920s	p. 102
The Great Depression and the New Deal	p. 105
Origins of the Great Depression	p. 106
American society faces the Great Depression	p. 108
Impact of the Great Depression on minorities and women	p. 110
Herbert Hoover's role in the crisis	p. 112
Roosevelt and the New Deal philosophy	p. 114
Economic changes in the New Deal	p. 115
New Deal programs to assist people	p. 117
New Deal critics	p. 120
End of the New Deal	p. 121
Impact and legacy of the New Deal	p. 123
Depression, Diplomacy, and World War II	p. 126
American foreign policy in the 1930s	p. 127
Preparation for war	p. 129
Organizing the war effort	p. 132
Minorities and women during the war	p. 134
The war's end	p. 136
Legacy of World War II	p. 138
Politics and the Cold War	p. 139
Truman administration: Foreign policy	p. 140
Truman administration: Domestic policy	p. 143
The Cold War at home	p. 146
The Age of American Affluence	p. 148
The postindustrial society	p. 149
Origins of the civil rights movement	p. 151
Eisenhower's domestic policy	p. 153
Foreign affairs under Eisenhower	p. 155
Decade of Change: The 1960s	p. 159
Kennedy's New Frontier	p. 160
Foreign policy under Kennedy	p. 162
Johnson's Great Society	p. 164
The Vietnam War unfolds	p. 166
Struggle for racial equality	p. 168
Minority equal rights	p. 170
Feminism	p. 171
The New Left and the counterculture	p. 173
Leadership in Crisis	p. 175
A turning point--the 1968 election	p. 176
Nixon's domestic policy	p. 178
The Supreme Court: Liberalism versus conservatism	p. 180
Nixon and the war in Vietnam	p. 182
Foreign policy under Nixon	p. 184
The Watergate crisis	p. 186
Toward a Conservative America	p. 188
Ford's domestic and foreign policies	p. 190
The Carter administration	p. 192
American life in the 1970s and 1980s	p. 195
Emerging political views	p. 197
Reagan's New Federalism	p. 200
Reagan's economic policy	p. 202
Reagan's foreign policy	p. 205
The Bush presidency	p. 208
Foreign policy under President Bush	p. 212
Clinton as president	p. 215
Clinton's second term and life in the 1990s	p. 221
Foreign policy under President Clinton	p. 225
The younger Bush presidency	p. 229
Foreign policy under the younger Bush	p. 236
Glossary	p. 239
Index	p. 244
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