The American Journey Portfolio Edition, Vol. II

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

• ISBN13: 9780131920996
• ISBN10: 0131920995
• Edition: CD
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-01-01
• Publisher: Pearson College Div

Summary

Written in a clear, engaging style,The American Journey, Portfolio Editionmotivates 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
16 Reconstruction, 1865-1877	321	(16)
Voices from the American Journey: T Thomas Fortune	321	(16)
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	(23)
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	(3)
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	(26)
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	(17)
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	(20)
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	(25)
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	(21)
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	(22)
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	(19)
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	(24)
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	(21)
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	(23)
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	(22)
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 E 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	(24)
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	(28)
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
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