American Journey : A History of the United States

by Goldfield, David; Anderson, Virginia DeJohn; Abbott, Carl E; Argersinger, Jo Ann E; Argersinger, Peter H.; Barney, William

• ISBN13: 9780131921009
• ISBN10: 0131921002
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Written in a clear, engaging style, The American Journey, Portfolio Edition motivates students to learn more about the key features of American political, social, and economic history. Focusing on our nationrs"s social and cultural history, the authors show that our attempt to live up to our American ideals is an ongoing journey that has become ever more inclusive of different groups and ideas.

Table of Contents

PREFACE	xxiv
U.S. HISTORY DOCUMENTS CD-ROM	xxvii
1 Worlds Apart
Voices from the American Journey: Moctezuma	1	(1)
DIFFERENT WORLDS	2	(10)
Native American Societies Before 1492	2	(4)
Cultural Perceptions and Misperceptions	6	(1)
West African Societies	7	(3)
Western Europe on the Eve of Discovery	10	(2)
CONTACT	12	(5)
The Lure of Discovery	12	(1)
Christopher Columbus	13	(1)
Spanish Conquest and Colonization	14	(3)
The Columbian Exchange	17	(1)
COMPETITION FOR A CONTINENT	17	(3)
Early French Efforts in North America	18	(1)
English Attempts in the New World	18	(2)
CONCLUSION	20	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	21	(1)
2 Transplantation, 1600-1685	22	(21)
Voices from the American Journey: Thomas Dudley	22	(1)
THE FRENCH IN NORTH AMERICA	23	(2)
The Development of New France	23	(1)
The Fur Trade	24	(1)
ENGLISH SETTLEMENT IN THE CHESAPEAKE	25	(6)
The Ordeal of Early Virginia	25	(3)
The Importance of Tobacco	28	(2)
Maryland: A Refuge for Catholics	30	(1)
THE FOUNDING OF NEW ENGLAND	31	(5)
The Pilgrims and Plymouth Colony	31	(2)
Massachusetts Bay Colony and Its Offshoots	33	(2)
Families, Farms, and Communities in Early New England	35	(1)
COMPETITION IN THE CARIBBEAN	36	(1)
Sugar and Slaves	36	(1)
A Biracial Society	37	(1)
THE PROPRIETARY COLONIES	37	(3)
Early Carolina	38	(1)
Pennsylvania: The Dream of Tolerance and Peace	38	(2)
THE DUTCH OVERSEAS EMPIRE	40	(1)
The West India Company and New Netherland	40	(1)
New Netherland Becomes NewYork	41	(1)
CONCLUSION	41	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	42	(1)
3 The Creation of New Worlds	43	(18)
Voices from the American Journey: Olaudah Equiano	43	(1)
INDIANS AND EUROPEANS	44	(2)
Indian Workers in the Spanish Borderlands	45	(1)
THE WEB OF TRADE	46	(6)
Displacing Native Americans in the English Colonies	47	(1)
Bringing Christianity to Native Peoples	48	(1)
After the First Hundred Years: Conflict and War	49	(3)
AFRICANS AND EUROPEANS	52	(6)
Labor Needs and the Turn to Slavery	52	(2)
The Shock of Enslavement	54	(1)
African-American Families and Communities	54	(3)
Resistance and Rebellion	57	(1)
EUROPEAN LABORERS IN NORTH AMERICA	58	(1)
A Spectrum of Control	58	(1)
New European Immigrants	59	(1)
CONCLUSION	59	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	60	(1)
4 Convergence and Conflict, 1660's-1763	61	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: George Washington	61	(1)
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IMPERIAL TRADE IN THE BRITISH COLONIES	62	(4)
The Regulation of Trade	62	(1)
The Colonial Export Trade and the Spirit of Enterprise	63	(1)
The Import Trade and Ties of Credit	64	(1)
Becoming More Like England	65	(1)
THE TRANSFORMATION OF CULTURE	66	(2)
Goods and Houses	66	(1)
Shaping Minds and Manners	67	(1)
COLONIAL RELIGION AND THE GREAT AWAKENING	68	(3)
THE COLONIAL POLITICAL WORLD	71	(3)
The Dominion of New England and the Limits of British Control	71	(1)
The Legacy of the Glorious Revolution	72	(1)
Diverging Politics in the Colonies and Great Britain	73	(1)
EXPANDING EMPIRES	74	(4)
British Colonists in the Backcountry	74	(1)
The Spanish in Texas and California	75	(1)
The French Along the Mississippi and in Louisiana	76	(2)
A CENTURY OF WARFARE	78	(4)
Imperial Conflict and the Establishment of an American Balance of Power, 1689-1738	78	(1)
King George's War Shifts the Balance, 1739-1754	79	(1)
The French and Indian War, 1754-1760: A Decisive Victory	80	(2)
The Triumph of the British Empire, 1763	82	(1)
CONCLUSION	82	(2)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	84	(1)
5 Imperial Breakdown, 1763-1774	85	(19)
Voices from the American Journey: Eliza Farmar	85	(2)
IMPERIAL REORGANIZATION	87	(1)
British Problems	87	(1)
Dealing with the New Territories	88	(1)
INDIAN AFFAIRS	88	(4)
Curbing the Assemblies	90	(1)
The Sugar and Stamp Acts	91	(1)
AMERICAN REACTIONS	92	(3)
Constitutional Issues	92	(1)
Taxation and the Political Culture	93	(1)
Protesting the Taxes	94	(1)
THE AFTERMATH OF THE STAMP ACT CRISIS	95	(2)
A Strained Relationship	95	(1)
Regulator Movements	96	(1)
THE TOWNSHEND CRISIS	97	(3)
Townshend's Plan	97	(1)
American Boycott	97	(1)
The Boston Massacre	98	(1)
The "Quiet Period"	98	(1)
The Boston Tea Party	99	(1)
The Intolerable Acts	99	(1)
THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION	100	(2)
American Response to the Intolerable Acts	100	(1)
The First Continental Congress	100	(1)
The Continental Association	101	(1)
Political Divisions	101	(1)
CONCLUSION	102	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	102	(2)
6 The War for Independence, 1774-1783	104	(22)
Voices from the American Journey: John Laurens	104	(1)
THE OUTBREAK OF WAR AND THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE, 1774-1776	105	(7)
Mounting Tensions	106	(1)
The Loyalists' Dilemma	106	(1)
British Coercion and Conciliation	106	(1)
The Battles of Lexington and Concord	106	(2)
The Second Continental Congress, 1775-1776	108	(1)
Commander in Chief George Washington	108	(1)
Early Fighting	108	(2)
Independence	110	(2)
Republicanism	112	(1)
THE COMBATANTS	112	(3)
Professional Soldiers	112	(2)
Women in the Contending Armies	114	(1)
African-American and Native American Participation in the War	114	(1)
THE WAR IN THE NORTH, 1776-1777	115	(2)
The British Army Hesitates	115	(1)
The Year of the Hangman	116	(1)
THE WAR WIDENS, 1778-1781	117	(4)
The United States Gains an Ally	117	(1)
Fighting on the Frontier and at Sea	118	(1)
The Land War Moves South	119	(1)
American Counterattacks	119	(2)
THE AMERICAN VICTORY, 1782-1783	121	(2)
The Peace of Paris	121	(1)
The Components of Success	122	(1)
WAR AND SOCIETY, 1775-1783	123	(1)
The Women's War	123	(1)
Effect of the War on African Americans and Native Americans	123	(1)
The Price of Victory	124	(1)
CONCLUSION	124	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	125	(1)
7 The First Republic, 1776-1789	126	(22)
Voices from the American Journey: William Shepard	126	(1)
THE NEW ORDER OF REPUBLICANISM	127	(5)
Defining the People	127	(3)
The State Constitutions	130	(1)
The Articles of Confederation	131	(1)
PROBLEMS AT HOME	132	(6)
The Fiscal Crisis	133	(1)
Economic Depression	134	(1)
The Economic Policies of the States	135	(1)
Congress and the West	136	(2)
DIPLOMATIC WEAKNESSES	138	(2)
Impasse with Britain	138	(1)
Spain and the Mississippi River	139	(1)
TOWARD A NEW UNION	140	(6)
The Road to Philadelphia	141	(1)
The Convention at Work	141	(2)
Overview of the Constitution	143	(1)
The Struggle over Ratification	144	(2)
CONCLUSION	146	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	146	(2)
8 A New Republic and the Rise of Parties, 1789-1800	148	(17)
Voices from the American Journey: Senator William Maclay	148	(1)
WASHINGTON'S AMERICA	149	(3)
The Uniformity of New England	149	(1)
Mid-Atlantic Pluralism	150	(1)
The Slave South and Its Backcountry	151	(1)
The Growing West	151	(1)
FORGING A NEW GOVERNMENT	152	(4)
"Mr. President" and the Bill of Rights	153	(1)
Departments and Courts	153	(1)
Revenue and Trade	154	(1)
Hamilton and the Public Credit	154	(1)
Reaction and Opposition	155	(1)
THE EMERGENCE OF PARTIES	156	(4)
The French Revolution	156	(1)
Securing the Frontier	157	(1)
The Whiskey Rebellion	158	(1)
Treaties with Britain and Spain	159	(1)
The First Partisan Election	159	(1)
THE LAST FEDERALIST ADMINISTRATION	160	(3)
The French Crisis and the XYZ Affair	160	(1)
Crisis at Home	161	(1)
The End of the Federalists	162	(1)
CONCLUSION	163	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	164	(1)
9 The Triumph and Collapse of Jeffersonian Republicanism, 1800-1824	165	(19)
Voices from the American Journey: Rosalie Calvert	165	(1)
JEFFERSON'S PRESIDENCY	166	(6)
Reform at Home	167	(1)
The Louisiana Purchase	168	(3)
Florida and Western Schemes	171	(1)
Embargo and a Crippled Presidency	171	(1)
MADISON AND THE COMING OF WAR	172	(3)
The Failure of Economic Sanctions	172	(1)
The Frontier and Indian Resistance	173	(1)
Decision for War	174	(1)
THE WAR OF 1812	175	(3)
Setbacks in Canada	175	(2)
Western Victories and British Offensives	177	(1)
The Treaty of Ghent and the Battle of New Orleans	178	(1)
THE ERA OF GOOD FEELINGS	178	(2)
Economic Nationalism	178	(1)
Judicial Nationalism	179	(1)
Toward a Continental Empire	179	(1)
THE BREAKDOWN OF UNITY	180	(3)
The Panic of 1819	181	(1)
The Missouri Compromise	181	(1)
The Election of 1824	182	(1)
CONCLUSION	183	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	183	(1)
10 The Jacksonian Era, 1824-1845	184	(21)
Voices from the American Journey: Benjamin Brown French	184	(1)
THE EGALITARIAN IMPULSE	185	(5)
The Extension of White Male Democracy	185	(2)
The Popular Religious Revolt	187	(1)
The Rise of the Jacksonians	188	(2)
JACKSON'S PRESIDENCY	190	(6)
The Jacksonian Appeal	190	(1)
Indian Removal	191	(2)
The Nullification Crisis	193	(2)
The Bank War	195	(1)
VAN BUREN AND HARD TIMES	196	(2)
The Panic of 1837	196	(1)
The Independent Treasury	197	(1)
Uproar over Slavery	197	(1)
THE RISE OF THE WHIG PARTY	198	(4)
The Party Taking Shape	198	(1)
Whig Persuasion	199	(1)
The Election of 1840	200	(2)
THE WHIGS IN POWER	202	(2)
Harrison and Tyler	202	(1)
The Texas Issue	202	(1)
The Election of 1844	203	(1)
CONCLUSION	204	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	204	(1)
11 Slavery and the Old South, 1800-1860	205	(18)
Voices from the American Journey: Hannah Crafts	205	(1)
THE LOWER SOUTH	206	(3)
Cotton and Slaves	206	(1)
The Profits of Slavery	207	(2)
THE UPPER SOUTH	209	(3)
A Period of Economic Adjustment	209	(2)
The Decline of Slavery	211	(1)
SLAVE LIFE AND CULTURE	212	(5)
Work Routines and Living Conditions	212	(2)
Families and Religion	214	(1)
Resistance	215	(2)
FREE SOCIETY	217	(3)
The Slaveholding Minority	217	(1)
The White Majority	218	(1)
Free Black People	219	(1)
THE PROSLAVERY ARGUMENT	220	(1)
CONCLUSION	221	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	222	(1)
12 The Market Revolution and Social Reform, 1815-1850	223	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Angelina Grimké	223	(1)
INDUSTRIAL CHANGE AND URBANIZATION	224	(3)
The Transportation Revolution	225	(2)
CITIES AND IMMIGRANTS	227	(9)
The Industrial Revolution	230	(3)
Growing Inequality and New Classes	233	(3)
REFORM AND MORAL ORDER	236	(5)
The Benevolent Empire	237	(1)
The Temperance Movement	238	(1)
Women's Roles in Reform	239	(1)
Backlash Against Benevolence	240	(1)
INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIAL IMPROVEMENT	241	(4)
School Reform	241	(1)
Prisons, Workhouses, and Asylums	242	(1)
Utopian Alternatives	243	(2)
ABOLITIONISM AND WOMEN'S RIGHTS	245	(5)
Rejecting Colonization	245	(1)
Abolitionism	246	(2)
The Women's Rights Movement	248	(1)
Political Antislavery	249	(1)
CONCLUSION	250	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	250	(1)
13 The Way West, 1815-1850	251	(19)
Voices from the American Journey: George Catlin	251	(1)
THE AGRICULTURAL FRONTIER	252	(5)
The Crowded East	252	(1)
The Old Northwest	253	(3)
The Old Southwest	256	(1)
THE FRONTIER OF THE PLAINS INDIANS	257	(5)
Tribal Lands	258	(1)
The Fur Traders	259	(1)
The Oregon Trail	260	(2)
THE MEXICAN BORDERLANDS	262	(5)
The Peoples of the Southwest	263	(1)
The Americanization of Texas	264	(1)
The Push into California and the Southwest	265	(2)
POLITICS, EXPANSION, AND WAR	267	(2)
Manifest Destiny	267	(1)
The Mexican War	268	(1)
CONCLUSION	269	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	269	(1)
14 The Politics of Sectionalism, 1846-1861	270	(21)
Voices from the American Journey: Harriet Beecher Stowe	270	(1)
SLAVERY IN THE TERRITORIES	271	(2)
The Wilmot Proviso	272	(1)
The Election of 1848	272	(1)
THE COMPROMISE OF 1850	273	(5)
Response to the Fugitive Slave Act	275	(1)
Uncle Tom's Cabin	276	(1)
The Election of 1852	277	(1)
POLITICAL REALIGNMENT	278	(6)
Young America's Foreign Misadventures	278	(1)
Stephen Douglas's Railroad Proposal	278	(1)
The Kansas-Nebraska Act	279	(1)
"Bleeding Kansas"	279	(1)
Know-Nothings and Republicans: Religion and Politics	279	(2)
The Election of 1856	281	(1)
The Dred Scott Case	281	(1)
The Lecompton Constitution	282	(1)
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates	283	(1)
THE ROAD TO DISUNION	284	(6)
North-South Differences	284	(1)
John Brown's Raid	285	(1)
The Election of 1860	286	(2)
Secession Begins	288	(1)
Presidential Inaction	288	(1)
Peace Proposals	288	(1)
Lincoln's Views on Secession	288	(1)
Fort Sumter: The Tug Comes	289	(1)
CONCLUSION	290	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	290	(1)
15 Battle Cries and Freedom Songs: The Civil War, 1861-1865	291	(30)
Voices from the American Journey: Sullivan Ballou	291	(2)
MOBILIZATION, NORTH AND SOUTH	293	(4)
War Fever	293	(1)
The North's Advantage in Resources	294	(2)
Leaders, Governments, and Strategies	296	(1)
THE EARLY WAR, 1861-1862	297	(4)
First Bull Run	297	(1)
The War in the West	297	(2)
Reassessing the War: The Human Toll	299	(1)
The War in the East	299	(2)
TURNING POINTS, 1862-1863	301	(7)
The Naval War and the Diplomatic War	301	(1)
Antietam	302	(1)
Emancipation	302	(2)
From Fredericksburg to Gettysburg	304	(3)
Vicksburg, Chattanooga, and the West	307	(1)
WAR TRANSFORMS THE NORTH	308	(1)
Wartime Legislation and Politics	308	(1)
CONSCRIPTION AND THE DRAFT RIOTS	309	(2)
The Northern Economy	309	(1)
Northern Women and the War	310	(1)
THE CONFEDERACY DISINTEGRATES	311	(2)
Southern Politics	311	(1)
The Southern Economy	312	(1)
Southern Women and the War	313	(1)
THE UNION PREVAILS, 1864-1865	313	(5)
Grant's Plan to End the War	314	(2)
The Election of 1864 and Sherman's March	316	(1)
The Road to Appomattox and the Death of Lincoln	317	(1)
CONCLUSION	318	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	319	(2)
16 Reconstruction, 1865-1877	321	(16)
Voices from the American Journey: T. Thomas Fortune	321	(1)
WHITE SOUTHERNERS AND THE GHOSTS OF THE CONFEDERACY, 1865	322	(1)
MORE THAN FREEDOM: AFRICAN-AMERICAN ASPIRATIONS IN 1865	322	(4)
Education	323	(1)
"Forty Acres and a Mule"	323	(1)
Migration to Cities	324	(1)
Faith and Freedom	324	(2)
FEDERAL RECONSTRUCTION, 1865-1870	326	(4)
Presidential Reconstruction, 1865-1867	326	(2)
Congressional Reconstruction, 1867-1870	328	(1)
Southern Republican Governments, 1867-1870	329	(1)
COUNTER-RECONSTRUCTION, 1870-1874	330	(2)
The Uses of Violence	330	(1)
The Failure of Northern Will	331	(1)
Liberal Republicans and the Election of 1872	332	(1)
REDEMPTION, 1874-1877	332	(2)
The Democrats' Violent Resurgence	332	(1)
The Weak Federal Response	333	(1)
The Election of 1876 and the Compromise of 1877	333	(1)
The Memory of Reconstruction	334	(1)
THE FAILED PROMISE OF RECONSTRUCTION	334	(2)
Sharecropping	334	(1)
Modest Gains and Future Victories	335	(1)
CONCLUSION	336	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	336	(1)
17 A New South: Progress and Social Tradition, 1877-1900	337	(23)
Voices from the American Journey: Anna J. Cooper	337	(1)
THE NEWNESS OF THE NEW SOUTH	338	(6)
An Industrial and Urban South	339	(2)
The Limits of Industrial and Urban Growth	341	(2)
Farms to Cities: Impact on Southerners	343	(1)
THE SOUTHERN AGRARIAN REVOLT	344	(4)
Cotton and Credit	345	(1)
Southern Farmers Organize, 1877-1892	345	(2)
Southern Populists	347	(1)
WOMEN IN THE NEW SOUTH	348	(2)
Church Work and Preserving Memories	349	(1)
Women's Clubs	350	(1)
SETTLING THE RACE ISSUE	350	(8)
The Fluidity of Southern Race Relations, 1877-1890	351	(1)
The White Backlash	351	(1)
Lynch Law	352	(1)
Segregation by Law	352	(2)
Disfranchisement	354	(1)
A National Consensus on Race	355	(1)
Response of the Black Community	355	(3)
CONCLUSION	358	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	359	(1)
18 Industry, Immigrants, and Cities, 1870-1900	360	(26)
Voices from the American Journey: Mary Antin	360	(1)
NEW INDUSTRY	361	(12)
Inventing Technology: The Electric Age	362	(2)
The Corporation and Its Impact	364	(2)
The Changing Nature of Work	366	(1)
Child Labor	367	(1)
Working Women	368	(2)
Responses to Poverty and Wealth	370	(1)
Workers Organize	371	(2)
NEW IMMIGRANTS	373	(7)
Old World Backgrounds	373	(2)
The Neighborhood	375	(1)
The Job	376	(1)
Nativism	377	(2)
Roots of the Great Migration	379	(1)
NEW CITIES	380	(4)
Centers and Suburbs	381	(1)
The New Middle Class	382	(2)
CONCLUSION	384	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	385	(1)
19 Transforming the West, 1865-1890	386	(17)
Voices from the American Journey: Andrew J. Russell	386	(1)
SUBJUGATING NATIVE AMERICANS	387	(5)
Tribes and Cultures	387	(2)
Federal Indian Policy	389	(1)
Warfare and Dispossession	389	(2)
Life on the Reservation: Americanization	391	(1)
EXPLOITING THE MOUNTAINS: THE MINING BONANZA	392	(3)
Rushes and Mining Camps	392	(2)
Labor and Capital	394	(1)
EXPLOITING THE GRASS: THE CATTLE KINGDOM	395	(3)
Cattle Drives and Cow Towns	395	(1)
Rise and Fall of Open-Range Ranching	396	(1)
Cowhands and Capitalists	397	(1)
EXPLOITING THE EARTH: HOMESTEADERS AND AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION	398	(3)
Settling the Land	398	(2)
Home on the Range	400	(1)
Farming the Land	400	(1)
CONCLUSION	401	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	402	(1)
20 Politics and Government, 1877-1900	403	(20)
Voices from the American Journey: Horace and William H. Taft	403	(2)
THE STRUCTURE AND STYLE OF POLITICS	405	(3)
Campaigns and Elections	405	(1)
Partisan Politics	405	(2)
Associational Politics	407	(1)
THE LIMITS OF GOVERNMENT	408	(2)
The Weak Presidency	408	(1)
The Inefficient Congress	409	(1)
The Federal Bureaucracy and the Spoils System	409	(1)
Inconsistent State Government	410	(1)
PUBLIC POLICIES AND NATIONAL ELECTIONS	410	(4)
Civil Service Reform	410	(1)
The Political Life of the Tariff	411	(1)
The Beginnings of Federal Regulation	412	(1)
The Money Question	413	(1)
THE CRISIS OF THE 1890's	414	(7)
Agricultural Protest	415	(1)
The People's or Populist Party	416	(1)
The Challenge of the Depression	417	(2)
The Battle of the Standards and the Election of 1896	419	(2)
CONCLUSION	421	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	422	(1)
21 The Progressive Era, 1900-1917	423	(25)
Voice from the American Jouney: Inez Milholland	423	(2)
THE FERMENT OF REFORM	425	(4)
The Context of Reform: Industrial and Urban Tensions	425	(1)
Church and Campus	426	(1)
Muckrakers	426	(1)
The Gospel of Efficiency	427	(1)
Labor's Demand for Rights	428	(1)
Expanding the Woman's Sphere	429	(1)
TRANSATLANTIC INFLUENCES	429	(2)
Socialism	430	(1)
Opponents of Reform	431	(1)
REFORMING SOCIETY	431	(6)
Settlement Houses and Urban Reform	432	(1)
Protective Legislation for Women and Children	432	(1)
Reshaping Public Education	433	(1)
Challenging Gender Restrictions	434	(1)
Reforming Country Life	434	(1)
Social Control and Moral Crusades	435	(1)
For White People Only?	436	(1)
REFORMING POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT	437	(2)
Woman Suffrage	437	(1)
Electoral Reform	437	(1)
Municipal Reform	438	(1)
Progressive State Government	439	(1)
THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND THE PROGRESSIVE PRESIDENCY	439	(4)
TR and the Modern Presidency	440	(1)
Roosevelt and Labor	440	(1)
Managing Natural Resources	441	(1)
Corporate Regulation	441	(1)
Taft and the Insurgents	442	(1)
WOODROW WILSON AND PROGRESSIVE REFORM	443	(3)
The Election of 1912	443	(1)
Implementing the New Freedom	444	(2)
The Expansion of Reform	446	(1)
CONCLUSION	446	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	447	(1)
22 Creating an Empire, 1865-1917	448	(21)
Voices from the American Journey: Major-General Leonard Wood	448	(1)
THE ROOTS OF IMPERIALISM	449	(3)
Ideological Arguments	450	(1)
Strategic Concerns	450	(1)
Economic Designs	451	(1)
FIRST STEPS	452	(3)
Seward and Blaine	452	(1)
Hawaii	452	(2)
Chile and Venezuela	454	(1)
THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR	455	(5)
The Cuban Revolution	456	(1)
Growing Tensions	456	(1)
War and Empire	457	(2)
The Treaty of Paris	459	(1)
IMPERIAL AMBITIONS: THE UNITED STATES AND EAST ASIA, 1899-1917	460	(3)
The Filipino-American War	460	(1)
China and the Open Door	461	(1)
Rivalry with Japan and Russia	462	(1)
IMPERIAL POWER: THE UNITED STATES AND LATIN AMERICA, 1899-1917	463	(4)
U.S. Rule in Puerto Rico	463	(1)
Cuba as a U.S. Protectorate	464	(1)
The Panama Canal	464	(1)
The Roosevelt Corollary	465	(1)
Dollar Diplomacy	466	(1)
Wilsonian Interventions	466	(1)
CONCLUSION	467	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	468	(1)
23 America and the Great War, 1914-1920	469	(22)
Voices from the American Journey: Ray Stannard Baker	469	(1)
WAGING NEUTRALITY	470	(7)
The Origins of Conflict	471	(1)
American Attitudes	471	(1)
The Economy of War	472	(1)
The Diplomacy of Neutrality	472	(2)
The Battle over Preparedness	474	(1)
The Election of 1916	475	(1)
Descent into War	475	(2)
WAGING WAR IN AMERICA	477	(4)
Managing the War Economy	477	(1)
Women and Minorities, New Opportunities, Old Inequalities	478	(1)
Financing the War	479	(1)
Conquering Minds	479	(1)
Suppressing Dissent	480	(1)
WAGING WAR AND PEACE ABROAD	481	(5)
The War to End All Wars	482	(2)
The Fourteen Points	484	(1)
The Paris Peace Conference	485	(1)
WAGING PEACE AT HOME	486	(4)
Battle over the League	486	(1)
Economic Readjustment and Social Conflict	487	(1)
Red Scare	488	(1)
The Election of 1920	489	(1)
CONCLUSION	490	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	490	(1)
24 Toward a Modern America, The 1920's	491	(19)
Voices from the American Journey: Upton Sinclair	491	(2)
THE ECONOMY THAT ROARED	493	(3)
Boom Industries	493	(1)
Corporate Consolidation	494	(1)
Open Shops and Welfare Capitalism	495	(1)
Sick Industries	495	(1)
THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT	496	(2)
Republican Ascendancy	496	(1)
Government Corruption	497	(1)
Coolidge Prosperity	497	(1)
The Fate of Reform	497	(1)
CITIES AND SUBURBS	498	(3)
Expanding Cities	498	(1)
The Great Black Migration	498	(2)
Barrios	500	(1)
The Road to Suburbia	500	(1)
MASS CULTURE IN THE JAZZ AGE	501	(2)
Advertising the Consumer Society	501	(1)
Leisure and Entertainment	501	(1)
The New Morality	502	(1)
The Searching Twenties	503	(1)
CULTURE WARS	503	(3)
Nativism and Immigration Restriction	503	(1)
The Ku Klux Klan	504	(1)
Prohibition and Crime	505	(1)
Old-Time Religion and the Scopes Trial	506	(1)
A NEW ERA IN THE WORLD?	506	(2)
War Debts and Economic Expansion	506	(1)
Rejecting War	507	(1)
Managing the Hemisphere	507	(1)
HERBERT HOOVER AND THE FINAL TRIUMPH OF THE NEW ERA	508	(1)
CONCLUSION	508	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	509	(1)
25 The Great Depression and the New Deal, 1929-1939	510	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Carlotta Silvas Martin, Eunice Langdon, and Meridel LeSeur	510	(2)
HARD TIMES IN HOOVERVILLE	512	(4)
Crash!	512	(2)
The Depression Spreads	514	(1)
"Women's Jobs" and "Men's Jobs"	514	(1)
Families in the Depression	515	(1)
"Last Hired, First Fired"	515	(1)
Protest	516	(1)
HERBERT HOOVER AND THE DEPRESSION	516	(3)
The Limits of Voluntarism	516	(2)
Repudiating Hoover: The 1932 Election	518	(1)
LAUNCHING THE NEW DEAL	519	(3)
Action Now!	519	(1)
Creating Jobs	519	(1)
Helping Some Farmers	520	(1)
The Flight of the Blue Eagle	520	(1)
Critics Right and Left	521	(1)
CONSOLIDATING THE NEW DEAL	522	(3)
Lifting Up and Weeding Out	522	(2)
Expanding Relief	524	(1)
The Roosevelt Coalition and the Election of 1936	524	(1)
THE NEW DEAL AND AMERICAN LIFE	525	(4)
Labor on the March	525	(1)
Women and the New Deal	526	(1)
Minorities and the New Deal	527	(1)
The New Deal: North, South, East, and West	528	(1)
The New Deal and Public Activism	529	(1)
EBBING OF THE NEW DEAL	529	(2)
Challenging the Court	529	(1)
More Hard Times	530	(1)
Political Stalemate	530	(1)
GOOD NEIGHBORS AND HOSTILE FORCES	531	(2)
Neutrality and Fascism	531	(1)
Edging Toward Involvement	532	(1)
CONCLUSION	533	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	533	(1)
26 World War II, 1939-1945	534	(21)
Voices from the American Journey: Enrico Fermi	534	(1)
THE DILEMMAS OF NEUTRALITY	535	(4)
The Roots of War	535	(1)
Hitler's War in Europe	536	(1)
Trying to Keep Out	536	(2)
Edging Toward Intervention	538	(1)
The Brink of War	538	(1)
December 7, 1941	539	(1)
HOLDING THE LINE	539	(2)
Stopping Germany	540	(1)
The Survival of Britain	540	(1)
Retreat and Stabilization in the Pacific	541	(1)
MOBILIZING FOR VICTORY	541	(7)
Organizing the Economy	542	(1)
The Enlistment of Science	543	(1)
Men and Women in the Military	544	(1)
The Home Front	544	(1)
New Workers	545	(2)
Clashing Cultures	547	(1)
Internment of Japanese Americans	547	(1)
The End of the New Deal	548	(1)
WAR AND PEACE	548	(5)
Gathering Allied Strength	548	(1)
Turning the Tide in Europe	549	(1)
Operation OVERLORD	550	(1)
Victory and Tragedy in Europe	551	(1)
The Pacific War	552	(1)
Searching for Peace	552	(1)
CONCLUSION	553	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	554	(1)
27 The Cold War at Home and Abroad, 1946-1952	555	(23)
Voices from the American Journey: Bernadette Wheeler	555	(1)
LAUNCHING THE GREAT BOOM	556	(4)
Reconversion Chaos	556	(1)
Economic Policy	557	(1)
The GI Bill	557	(1)
Assembly-Line Neighborhoods	558	(1)
Steps Toward Civil Rights	559	(1)
Consumer Boom and Baby Boom	559	(1)
TRUMAN, REPUBLICANS, AND THE FAIR DEAL	560	(3)
Truman's Opposition	561	(1)
Whistle-Stopping Across America	562	(1)
Truman's Fair Deal	562	(1)
CONFRONTING THE SOVIET UNION	563	(4)
The End of the Grand Alliance	563	(2)
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan	565	(1)
Soviet Reactions	566	(1)
American Rearmament	567	(1)
COLD WAR AND HOT WAR	567	(5)
The Nuclear Shadow	567	(1)
The Cold War in Asia	568	(1)
NSC-68 and Aggressive Containment	568	(1)
War in Korea, 1950-1953	569	(2)
The Politics of War	571	(1)
THE SECOND RED SCARE	572	(4)
The Communist Party and the Loyalty Program	572	(1)
Naming Names to Congress	573	(1)
Subversion Trials	574	(1)
Senator McCarthy on Stage	575	(1)
Understanding McCarthyism	576	(1)
CONCLUSION	576	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	577	(1)
28 The Confident Years, 1953-1964	578	(22)
Voices from the American Journey: Melba Pattillo	578	(1)
A DECADE OF AFFLUENCE	579	(6)
What's Good for General Motors	580	(1)
Reshaping Urban America	581	(1)
Comfort on Credit	581	(1)
The New Fifties Family	582	(1)
Inventing Teenagers	583	(1)
Turning to Religion	583	(1)
The Gospel of Prosperity	584	(1)
The Underside of Affluence	585	(1)
FACING OFF WITH THE SOVIET UNION	585	(3)
Why We Liked Ike	585	(1)
A Balance of Terror	586	(1)
Containment in Action	586	(2)
Global Standoff	588	(1)
JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR	588	(4)
The Kennedy Mystique	588	(2)
Kennedy's Mistakes	590	(1)
Getting into Vietnam	590	(1)
Missile Crisis: A Line Drawn in the Waves	591	(1)
Science and Foreign Affairs	592	(1)
RIGHTEOUSNESS LIKE A MIGHTY STREAM: THE STRUGGLE FOR CIVIL RIGHTS	592	(3)
Getting to the Supreme Court	592	(1)
Deliberate Speed	593	(1)
Public Accommodations	593	(1)
March on Washington, 1963	594	(1)
"LET US CONTINUE"	595	(3)
Dallas, 1963	595	(1)
War on Poverty	596	(1)
Civil Rights, 1964-1965	596	(1)
War, Peace, and the Landslide of 1964	597	(1)
CONCLUSION	598	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	599	(1)
29 Shaken to the Roots, 1965-1980	600	(24)
Voices from the American Journey: Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong	600	(1)
THE END OF CONSENSUS	601	(7)
Deeper into Vietnam	601	(2)
Voices of Dissent	603	(1)
New Left and Community Activism	604	(1)
The Feminist Critique	605	(1)
Youth Culture and Counterculture	605	(1)
Sounds of Change	606	(1)
Communes and Cults	607	(1)
CITIES UNDER STRESS	608	(4)
Diagnosing an Urban Crisis	608	(1)
Racial Rioting	609	(1)
Minority Separatism	609	(2)
Suburban Independence: The Outer City	611	(1)
THE YEAR OF THE GUN, 1968	612	(3)
The Tet Offensive	612	(1)
LBJ's Exit	613	(1)
Red Spring	613	(1)
Violence and Politics	613	(2)
NIXON AND WATERGATE	615	(5)
Getting Out of Vietnam, 1969-1973	615	(1)
Nixon and the Wider World	616	(1)
Courting Middle America	616	(1)
Oil, OPEC, and Stagflation	617	(1)
Americans as Environmentalists	617	(1)
From Dirty Tricks to Watergate	618	(1)
The Ford Footnote	619	(1)
JIMMY CARTER: IDEALISM AND FRUSTRATION IN THE WHITE HOUSE	620	(2)
Carter, Energy, and the Economy	620	(1)
Closed Factories and Failing Farms	620	(1)
Building a Cooperative World	621	(1)
New Crises Abroad	621	(1)
CONCLUSION	622	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	623	(1)
30 The Reagan Revolution and a Changing World, 1981-1992	624	(28)
Voices from the American Journey: Celia Noup	624	(2)
REAGAN'S DOMESTIC REVOLUTION	626	(9)
Reagan's Majority	626	(2)
The New Conservatism	628	(2)
Reaganomics: Deficits and Deregulation	630	(1)
Crisis for Organized Labor	631	(1)
An Acquisitive Society	631	(1)
Poverty amid Prosperity	632	(3)
CONSOLIDATING THE REVOLUTION: GEORGE H.W. BUSH	635	(1)
THE SECOND (SHORT) COLD WAR	636	(4)
Confronting the USSR	636	(1)
Risky Business: Foreign Policy Adventures	636	(2)
Embracing Perestroika	638	(1)
Crisis and Democracy in Eastern Europe	638	(1)
The First Persian Gulf War	639	(1)
GROWTH IN THE SUNBELT	640	(4)
The Defense Boom	641	(1)
New Americans	641	(1)
Old Gateways and New	642	(1)
The Graying of America	643	(1)
VALUES IN COLLISION	644	(1)
NEW MEANINGS FOR AMERICAN FAMILIES	645	(5)
The Feminist Critique	645	(1)
Women's Rights and Public Policy	646	(1)
Coming Out	647	(1)
Churches in Change	648	(1)
Culture Wars	648	(2)
CONCLUSION	650	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	651	(1)
31 Complacency and Crisis, 1993-2003	652
Voices from the American Journey: John McNamara	652	(1)
THE POLITICS OF THE CENTER	653	(5)
Political Generations	653	(1)
Policing the World	654	(1)
Clinton's Neoliberalism	655	(1)
Contract with America and the Election of 1996	655	(1)
The Dangers of Everyday Life	656	(1)
Morality and Partisanship	657	(1)
A NEW ECONOMY?	658	(4)
The Prosperous 1990's	658	(1)
The Service Economy	659	(1)
The High-Tech Sector	659	(1)
An Instant Society	660	(1)
In the World Market	661	(1)
BROADENING DEMOCRACY	662	(4)
Americans in 2000	662	(1)
Women from the Grassroots to Congress	662	(2)
Minorities at the Ballot Box	664	(1)
Rights and Opportunities	664	(2)
EDGING INTO A NEW CENTURY	666	(3)
The Election of 2000	666	(1)
Reaganomics Revisited	667	(1)
Downsized Diplomacy	668	(1)
PARADOXES OF POWER	669	(3)
Security and Conflict	669	(2)
Iraq and Conflicts in the Middle East	671	(1)
CONCLUSION	672	(1)
REVIEW QUESTIONS	672
APPENDIX	A-1
GLOSSARY	G-1
INDEX	I-1